The Monetary Authority of Singapore has announced that it will establish a Future of Finance Institute to accelerate the adoption of new financial technologies and move the sector from experimentation to broader deployment. The institute will initially focus on artificial intelligence and tokenisation, bringing together MAS' existing public-private initiatives under a single coordinating body. While MAS will continue to set policy and regulatory frameworks, the new institute will work directly with industry to lower adoption barriers, connect financial firms with technology partners and shared expertise, and support institutions of different sizes. The institute will provide four core capabilities. A Knowledge Hub will offer validated use cases, deployment playbooks, solution providers and a capability roadmap. An Innovation Garage will coordinate industry collaboration on targeted AI and tokenisation projects. Industry Sandboxes will support controlled testing and pre-deployment validation for areas including programmable money, tokenised assets and AI-enabled workflows. Implementation Toolkits will include a Programmable Compliance Toolkit for tokenised assets and an updated AI Risk Management Toolkit with guidance for deploying agentic AI with safeguards. The institute builds on MAS-backed efforts including MindForge, PathFin.ai, Project Guardian and Project Orchid, and will be governed by a board drawn from MAS, major financial institutions, technology firms and academia, alongside practitioners with industry and technology expertise. Further details on the institute's strategy and governance are due later this year.

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