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Public Statement: On the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the provision of retail investment services
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Download PDF — 7 pages (0.20 MB)Complete seven-page English public statement ESMA35-335435667-5924, issued 30 May 2024, with paragraphs 1-27, all eleven footnotes and conclusion. Original PDF bytes unchanged.
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Official metadata
- Official title
- Public Statement: On the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the provision of retail investment services
- Official reference
- ESMA35-335435667-5924
- Document type
- Guidelines
- Document date
- 2024-05-30
- Document date kind
- Document issue
- Document-date evidence
- European Securities and Markets Authority · PDF heading: 30 May 2024; ESMA35-335435667-5924. — Exact issue date printed on this version.
- Publication date
- 2024-05-30
- Publication-date evidence
- European Securities and Markets Authority · Release 30/05/2024, issued today; Related Documents row ESMA35-335435667-5924. — Establishes official publication of this version on 2024-05-30, before the 4 September 2026 cutoff.
- Legal status
- Non binding
- Legal-status evidence
- European Securities and Markets Authority · PDF p.1 and paragraphs 1-3, 5-24: initial MiFID II guidance for retail investment services. — Non-legislative report, scientific guidance, strategic workplan or consultation text; not an act creating binding law.
- Language
- en
Research classifications
These are researcher classifications used to organise and analyse the corpus; they are not official EU metadata.
- Record level
- Principal
- Version status
- Final
- Temporal collection
- Contemporary EU AI policy
- Relevance class
- Direct AI relevance
- Policy stage
- Implementation
- Corpus tier
- Directly related
- Sectors
- Policy membership
Classification evidence
- Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Securities and Markets Authority · PDF p.1 and paragraphs 1-3, 5-24: initial MiFID II guidance for retail investment services. — AI/ML is a substantive regulatory or sectoral subject.
- Sector tags: Financial services · European Securities and Markets Authority · PDF p.1 and paragraphs 1-3, 5-24: initial MiFID II guidance for retail investment services. — Addresses regulated banking, insurance or securities activities.
- Sector tags: Consumer protection · European Securities and Markets Authority · PDF p.1 and paragraphs 1-3, 5-24: initial MiFID II guidance for retail investment services. — Addresses safeguards for retail clients or insurance customers.
- Provenance tags: Authored by an EU agency or body · European Securities and Markets Authority · PDF p.1 and paragraphs 1-3, 5-24: initial MiFID II guidance for retail investment services. — Produced within the named EU agency/body; named personal author credits remain separate.
- Provenance tags: Officially published · European Securities and Markets Authority · Official record with linked English document. — Official EU endpoint distributes this independently citable English text.
Production provenance
- Provenance tags
- Named bibliographic authors
- European Securities and Markets Authority · European Securities and Markets Authority · PDF institutional title and imprint.
- Institutions and roles
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- European Securities and Markets Authority · Author · role evidence · PDF institutional title/imprint and substantive text.
- European Securities and Markets Authority · Official host · role evidence · Official publication record and linked English PDF.
- European Securities and Markets Authority · Publisher · role evidence · Official publication record and linked English PDF.
Official sources and identifiers
- Official source · Publisher/host: European Securities and Markets Authority
- Official source · Publisher/host: European Securities and Markets Authority
- Official source · Publisher/host: European Securities and Markets Authority
Research assessment
- Inclusion rationale
- Direct, operative sectoral guidance on AI use by investment firms, not merely an AI market-monitoring study or press announcement.
- Researcher notes
- Officially titled Public Statement; mapped to guidelines because it supplies initial supervisory guidance. Existing MiFID II obligations are distinguished from the statement's non-binding guidance.
- Review status
- verified
Relationships
No additional published relationships touch this record.
Verification
- Expanded evidence review
- Verified
- Reviewed by
- Yichen Hao
- Evidence review date
- 2026-09-05T23:48:11Z
The evidence review date is not a separate human sign-off date. Review credit and evidence-review actions
- Last verified: 2026-09-05T23:48:11Z · PDF heading: 30 May 2024; ESMA35-335435667-5924. Official linked English manifestation reviewed.
- Last verified: 2026-09-05T23:48:11Z · PDF p.1 and paragraphs 1-3, 5-24: initial MiFID II guidance for retail investment services. English text inspected in web extraction or Node fetch plus pypdf; no retained file snapshot claimed.
- Last verified: 2026-09-05T23:48:11Z · 30/05/2024 release: issued today; Related Documents table dates ESMA35-335435667-5924 on 30/05/2024.