// GLOSSARY -- AGENTIC FINANCE
What is Agent Compliance?
Ensuring AI agent financial activities conform to regulatory requirements, organizational policies, and industry standards — sanctions screening, reporting, and record-keeping.
WHY IT MATTERS
Agents fall under the same regulatory umbrella as human financial activity. Sanctions and AML rules don't exempt software-initiated transactions.
The challenge: agents transact at high frequency, 24/7. Traditional compliance processes don't scale.
Requires automated enforcement — rules evaluated programmatically on every transaction, not manually after.
HOW POLICYLAYER USES THIS
PolicyLayer automates compliance through sanctions screening, transaction limits, and reporting on every agent transaction.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What regulations apply?
Depends on jurisdiction: AML/KYC laws, sanctions regulations (OFAC), travel rules, and emerging AI-specific financial regulations. The landscape is evolving rapidly.
Who is responsible?
The operator deploying the agent is typically responsible for its compliance. PolicyLayer provides the tooling to meet requirements.
Can PolicyLayer guarantee compliance?
PolicyLayer provides automated enforcement of compliance rules, but compliance is ultimately the operator's responsibility. PolicyLayer makes it achievable at agent scale.