{"id":49090,"date":"2024-03-01T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T08:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/esma-veroeffentlichung-anforderungen-fuer-die-veroeffentlichung-von-anlageempfehlungen-in-sozialen-medien\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:32:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:32:55","slug":"esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 6 February 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a publication aimed at raising awareness about the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) that apply when posting investment recommendations on social media. At the same time it also warns about the risk of manipulation in such publications.<\/p>

The publication and warning are available on the ESMA website<\/a>.<\/p>

The following video summarises the requirements in clear and easy to understand language.<\/p>

\n
\"ESMA<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESMA published requirements that apply when publishing investment recommendations on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-en"],"yoast_head":"\nESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media - FMA \u00d6sterreich<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media - FMA \u00d6sterreich\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ESMA published requirements that apply when publishing investment recommendations on social media.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FMA \u00d6sterreich\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-01T08:17:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-19T08:32:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alexander Plank-Bachselten\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@FMA_AT\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@FMA_AT\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alexander Plank-Bachselten\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alexander Plank-Bachselten\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c31b8cb77885775e776264ed40e1be4c\"},\"headline\":\"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-01T08:17:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-19T08:32:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":84,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Information\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/\",\"name\":\"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media - FMA \u00d6sterreich\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-01T08:17:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-19T08:32:55+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"FMA \u00d6sterreich\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"FMA - Finanzmarktaufsicht\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/FMA_Logo_Twitter_400x400.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/FMA_Logo_Twitter_400x400.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"FMA - Finanzmarktaufsicht\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/FMA_AT\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fma.gv.at\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c31b8cb77885775e776264ed40e1be4c\",\"name\":\"Alexander Plank-Bachselten\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8e73dd401695c0e6318c8fe39a8867ec0b54a4b90c0907e0aec83ebc64209836?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8e73dd401695c0e6318c8fe39a8867ec0b54a4b90c0907e0aec83ebc64209836?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8e73dd401695c0e6318c8fe39a8867ec0b54a4b90c0907e0aec83ebc64209836?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Alexander Plank-Bachselten\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media - FMA \u00d6sterreich","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media - FMA \u00d6sterreich","og_description":"ESMA published requirements that apply when publishing investment recommendations on social media.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/","og_site_name":"FMA \u00d6sterreich","article_published_time":"2024-03-01T08:17:04+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-07-19T08:32:55+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Alexander Plank-Bachselten","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@FMA_AT","twitter_site":"@FMA_AT","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Alexander Plank-Bachselten","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/"},"author":{"name":"Alexander Plank-Bachselten","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c31b8cb77885775e776264ed40e1be4c"},"headline":"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media","datePublished":"2024-03-01T08:17:04+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-19T08:32:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/"},"wordCount":84,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg","articleSection":["Information"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/","url":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/","name":"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media - FMA \u00d6sterreich","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg","datePublished":"2024-03-01T08:17:04+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-19T08:32:55+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ESMA-Webseite-Teaser-2.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/esma-publication-requirements-and-warning-about-publishing-investment-recommendations-on-social-media\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ESMA Publication: Requirements and Warning about posting Investment Recommendations on Social Media"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/","name":"FMA \u00d6sterreich","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#organization","name":"FMA - Finanzmarktaufsicht","url":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FMA_Logo_Twitter_400x400.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FMA_Logo_Twitter_400x400.png","width":400,"height":400,"caption":"FMA - Finanzmarktaufsicht"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/FMA_AT"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c31b8cb77885775e776264ed40e1be4c","name":"Alexander Plank-Bachselten","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8e73dd401695c0e6318c8fe39a8867ec0b54a4b90c0907e0aec83ebc64209836?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8e73dd401695c0e6318c8fe39a8867ec0b54a4b90c0907e0aec83ebc64209836?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8e73dd401695c0e6318c8fe39a8867ec0b54a4b90c0907e0aec83ebc64209836?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Alexander Plank-Bachselten"}}]}},"toolset-meta":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 13:42:23","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49090"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50804,"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49090\/revisions\/50804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}