Sumsub, a provider of AI-driven trust infrastructure built to support compliance operations at scale, has formed a new APAC forum aimed at shaping how autonomous AI agents are adopted, controlled and held accountable across the region.
The newly created Sumsub Agentic AI Council will draw together specialists from policy, academia, technology, industry and civil society to produce practical frameworks and shared best practice for agentic AI.
The company is inviting leaders in these fields to register interest in becoming founding advisors. Their work will centre on the conditions required for responsible deployment, spanning identity, delegated authority, security, transparency, accountability and oversight.
The initiative arrives as AI agents shift from trial projects into systems that can plan, decide and act for people and organisations. According to Deloitte figures cited by Sumsub, close to three-quarters of consumers in APAC already turn to AI to find, compare and research products, while 95% of businesses are either running or testing multi-step AI systems that require little human involvement.
Sumsub points to recent cases in which AI systems strayed beyond their intended remit or behaved unexpectedly, arguing that the regional challenge lies in capturing the value of autonomous AI without sacrificing control or trust.
Governments and regulators across the region are already moving. Singapore has published a Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI, Mainland China is working on standards covering AI agent identity and interoperability, Hong Kong’s 2026 Policy Address proposed cross-sector safety-management guidelines for AI agents, and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong is examining fresh guidance on AI agents within financial services.
Sumsub believes input from businesses and technical experts will be just as vital in determining how these systems are governed and trusted in practice.
The Council will operate through three pillars. Adopt will examine valuable and responsible uses of agentic AI in areas such as compliance, fraud prevention, customer experience and efficiency.
Build will focus on the technical and operational groundwork for trustworthy agents, including agent identity, verifiable credentials, secure architectures, traceability and interoperability. Govern will tackle the policies, standards and accountability mechanisms required as AI autonomy grows. Planned outputs include responsible adoption guidance, research and industry reports, stakeholder dialogues and thought leadership.
Founding advisors will take part in workstreams under each pillar, helping to shape a practical framework covering agent identity, delegated authority, interoperability and auditability. The first working group is set to address agentic commerce, weighing identity, accountability and oversight questions that emerge when AI agents transact for consumers and businesses.
Sumsub specialises in verification, fraud prevention and compliance. It has extended this work into AI tools that support both the deployment and governance of AI agents, including its in-platform assistant Summy AI Copilot, its Know Your Agent (KYA) framework and MCP integration capabilities.
Sumsub APAC government relations lead Jason Chan said, “The opportunity presented by agentic AI is becoming clearer with every new use case, but the conditions for responsible adoption in environments with real financial, operational and regulatory consequences are still taking shape, even as they become increasingly business-critical.
“Drawing on our work helping organizations build trust and accountability in digital interactions, we have a front-row view of these challenges and see an opportunity to accelerate trusted and scalable AI adoption with the Sumsub Agentic AI Council.”
Sumsub AI advocate Mick Amelishko added, “The conversation around AI often begins with capability. Sustainable adoption, however, will depend not only on what these systems can do, but also on how confidently organizations can deploy and govern them. The Council will create a platform where experts from different disciplines can share perspectives and help advance approaches that support the responsible development of agentic AI.”
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