Affinidi and CardInfoLink Launch First AI Agent Trust Layer in Singapore

Singapore-founded trust infrastructure company Affinidi and payment platform CardInfoLink have deployed the first commercial trust layer for AI agent transactions in Asia, putting a governance and audit system into production on CardInfoLink's agentic commerce platform Agenzo. The deployment gives every AI agent a cryptographic identity and creates tamper-evident records of every machine-to-machine transaction.

The system, built on Affinidi's Agent Gateway product, addresses a critical gap identified by regulators and analysts alike. Singapore's IMDA released the world's first governance framework for agentic AI in January 2026, calling for bounded autonomy and human accountability. Meanwhile, Gartner expects more than 40 per cent of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by 2027 due to inadequate risk controls. The Agent Gateway is designed to meet this baseline — giving every AI agent a verifiable identity, enforcing policy at runtime, and producing audit trails that hold both machines and humans accountable.

CardInfoLink, a Singapore-based payment infrastructure provider with 15 years of regional experience, has integrated the gateway into its Agenzo platform for travel and hospitality bookings. When a consumer instructs an AI agent to book a flight or hotel, the Agent Gateway governs the interaction in the background without changing the user or merchant experience. Merchants become "agent-ready" through simple configuration, with trust handled at the system boundary rather than customised per integration. The result is a governed, auditable channel for AI agents to transact on behalf of consumers — something no other Asia-based payment provider has put into live production.

Why it matters for Singapore: This deployment turns Singapore's AI governance theory into practice. IMDA's Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI, updated in May 2026 with industry case studies from DBS, OCBC, Google, and GovTech, explicitly calls for technical controls that give AI agents bounded autonomy. Affinidi — a Temasek-founded company headquartered in Singapore — has built the infrastructure to deliver exactly that, and CardInfoLink is the first to run it in production. As more Singapore businesses put agents to work across finance, travel, and commerce, this trust layer model could become the standard for keeping agentic AI both powerful and accountable.