MAS Sets Up Future of Finance Institute to Move AI, Tokenisation Beyond Pilots

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is establishing a Future of Finance Institute to help financial firms move AI and tokenisation projects beyond pilot stage into production deployment.

Mandate

The institute will initially focus on AI and tokenisation, bringing together financial institutions, technology firms, researchers, and fintech players to support wider sector adoption.

It builds on existing MAS-led initiatives including:

• MindForge AI Risk Management Toolkit
• PathFin.ai
• Project Guardian
• Project Orchid

Role and Structure

MAS will continue setting policy and regulatory frameworks. The institute will act as a coordinating body for Singapore’s next phase of financial innovation, working with industry to reduce adoption barriers and support deployment across institutions of different sizes.

Planned activities include:

• Knowledge hub: validated use cases, deployment guides, solution providers
• Innovation garage: industry collaboration
• Sandboxes: testing programmable money, tokenised assets, AI-enabled workflows
• Toolkits: agentic AI, programmable compliance

The institute board will comprise representatives from MAS, major financial institutions, technology firms, and academia, plus practitioners with industry and technology experience.

More details on strategy and governance will be announced later in 2026.