The International Monetary Fund has published a technical note assessing artificial intelligence adoption across securities markets and setting out seven high-level recommendations for market regulators. The note calls for stronger supervisory expertise, secure technology-enabled oversight, proportionate market monitoring, enhanced transparency and governance, social media surveillance, cross-border cooperation, and measures to address concentration and infrastructure risks. These steps are intended to complement existing guidance from the Financial Stability Board and the International Organization of Securities Commissions. AI use is expanding across asset management, wholesale trading, robo-advisory services, neo-broking and crowdfunding, creating risks related to poor or biased data, opaque models, correlated trading, market manipulation, retail investor misconduct, cybersecurity and reliance on a small number of technology providers. The note emphasizes that emerging market and developing economy regulators should tailor oversight to domestic adoption and capacity, use existing supervisory frameworks before pursuing resource-intensive tools, and maintain safeguards for financial stability and investor protection.
2025-12-24International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund outlines seven supervisory priorities for accelerated AI use in securities markets
The International Monetary Fund has outlined seven supervisory priorities for managing accelerated AI adoption in securities markets. These cover regulatory capacity, technology-enabled monitoring, transparency, social media surveillance, cross-border cooperation and concentration risk. Emerging market regulators should adopt proportionate frameworks aligned with local risks, infrastructure and resources.