PegasusHong Kong’s bank regulator starts work on checking an agent’s identity and delegated authority
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority launched Project SAGE on November 2 with an industry expert group to explore how to verify an AI agent’s identity and the authority delegated to it, with agentic commerce among the use cases and no new rules yet.
Your doorMerchants should treat who the agent is and who authorized it as two separate checks at their door and log both on every agent order, so any Know Your Agent standard that emerges fits a record they already keep.
Source: Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Nov 2, 2026 · HKMA launches Project SAGE and establishes Expert Group for agentic finance ↗
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