Finance Shields, Local Agents, and Proxies for Safer Code AI moves from cloud cost traps into guardrails you can run and prove. Builders swap metered APIs for owned silicon while tightening what agents can touch, from SQL to crash physics. MAS partners banking industry to tap AI, machine learning to combat financial crime - The Business Times What happened: MAS is working with banks to apply AI and machine learning against financial crime. The effort targets detection and response at institutional scale. Why it matters: Teams can test stricter compliance without bespoke rules engines, and startups can wrap finance workflows with models that flag anomalies without breaking audit trails. Context: Policy and infrastructure converge as regulated lenders adopt model-driven monitoring. Trusted Remote Execution: Policy-Enforced Scripts for AI Agents and Humans What happened: AWS open-sourced Trusted Remote Execution to enforce policy on scripts run by AI agents and people.…