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Regulated
Australia
,
Since 2001
Last Updated:

Trading Conditions

Min Deposit:
N/A
Max Leverage:
N/A
Account Types
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Official website

ad-fx.com.au

Online · checked Sep 10, 2026

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Funding Methods

No funding methods available

Trust rating

Good

67 out of 100 · 50% checked

It holds a valid ASIC 257679 licence and 2 more, and its company registration is verified.

Regulation
86Excellent
Identity
87Excellent
Client terms
50Fair
Trading offer
50Fair
Service
44Poor

We checked ADFX on 2026-10-18 across its regulation, company record, client terms, trading offer and service, and could verify 50% of its record. Its strongest valid licence is ASIC 257679, with 2 more valid. The score of 67 is what the checked record adds up to; nothing held it down. Only 50% of the record could be verified, under the 65% a full rating needs, so the score is marked as limited data. What would move the score: licence held by the onboarding entity, verified age, transparency. No investigation has been published yet, so complaints and reputation are unknown. Its client terms have not been reviewed yet.

Score last calculated 2026/10/18

Regulatory Licenses

Regulatory Licenses:
Tier 1
Australia flag
Institution Forex License (STP)
Regulated
ASIC | Australia
Regulatory Licenses:
Tier 3
Seychelles flag
Financial Service
Offshore
FSA | Seychelles
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Company Information

Full Name:ADFX Global Pty Limited
Founded:2001
Headquarters:Australia
Enterprise Offices:3offices

Customer Support

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Languages:
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Broker Summary

What Wikilix has recorded about ADFX: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.

Overview

ADFX is the trading name of ADFX Global Pty Limited, an Australian private company registered under ACN 096 386 686 and ABN 13 096 386 686, with its office at 'Angel Place', Level 17, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000. The company has been on the Australian Business Register since 30 March 2001, originally under the name Advance Trading Australia Pty Ltd. What matters most about ADFX is what it is not: the business described on its own website is an advisory practice for wholesale clients, not a retail forex or CFD brokerage.

Regulation and licence

ADFX Global Pty Limited holds Australian Financial Services Licence No. 257679, issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and in force since 17 February 2004. The company publishes the licence, its scope and its company numbers openly on its own regulatory information page. The authorisation covers financial product advice on, and dealing in, derivatives and foreign exchange contracts, and it is granted to wholesale clients. The firm itself states that holding an AFSL does not mean ASIC endorses or recommends it.

Two further permissions are attached to the ADFX brand outside Australia and are worth stating plainly, because neither appears on the company's own website. A Seychelles securities dealer licence numbered SD1661 is recorded against a different company, TradingDynamix Ltd, and a Vanuatu licence numbered 701016, effective 6 February 2026, is recorded against ADFX Global limited. Both are low-tier offshore permissions that carry no client money protection scheme, and the mismatch between the Seychelles licensee and the Australian licensee is a material discrepancy rather than a formality.

Safety of client funds

Wholesale clients do not receive the protections the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) gives retail clients. The company says so itself: no Financial Services Guide, no Product Disclosure Statement, no Statement of Advice, no statutory best interests duty for personal advice, and no access to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. Anyone who does not meet a wholesale client test cannot be served at all, and the firm requires evidence of that status, which may include an accountant's certificate confirming net assets of at least $2.5 million or gross income of at least $250,000 in each of the last two financial years.

Services and fees

Rather than trading accounts, ADFX sells three monthly advisory subscriptions, priced in Australian dollars including GST: Market Intelligence at AUD 699 per month, covering weekly market commentary and a monthly research report; Professional Advisory at AUD 1,199 per month, adding an assigned adviser and weekly phone consultations; and Strategic Advisory at AUD 3,999 per month, with a dedicated adviser, bespoke research and up to two consultations a week.

Accounts, leverage and platforms

The website publishes no live or demo trading accounts, no minimum deposit, no leverage figure, no spread schedule and no trading platform. There is no MetaTrader or comparable terminal offered to clients, and no deposit or withdrawal channel is described anywhere on the site. Where this profile leaves those sections empty, that is the accurate answer rather than a gap in our research.

Availability

The firm states that its website and its services are intended for residents of Australia only, that its licence authorises financial services in Australia, and that the site is not directed at anyone in a jurisdiction where such use would be contrary to local law. Onboarding runs through an enquiry form, not an account signup, and the site is published in English only.

Support

Contact runs through a single published email address, compliance@ad-fx.com, and the Sydney office address. There is no live chat, no published telephone number and no official social media account linked from the site.

Pros and cons

  • For: a genuine, long-established Australian company with a verifiable registration and an in-force AFSL that the firm publishes accurately and without overstating.
  • For: unusually candid disclosure - the loss of retail protections, the absence of AFCA access and the limits of an AFSL are all spelled out on the site rather than buried.
  • Against: no retail service of any kind, so the overwhelming majority of traders cannot use it and should not treat the ASIC licence as covering them.
  • Against: offshore permissions carried under the same brand name one of which is licensed to a wholly different company, with nothing on the official site explaining the relationship.
  • Against: fees are substantial and the advisory subscriptions are sold before any trading service exists.

Assessment

Judged as what it says it is, ADFX Global Pty Limited is a legitimately licensed Australian advisory firm with an honest regulatory disclosure page. Judged as a broker, it is not one: retail traders cannot open an account, are not covered by AFSL 257679, and would have no complaints route if something went wrong. Anyone who encounters a retail trading offer using the ADFX name should be aware that it does not come from the Australian licensee described here, and should establish exactly which company would hold their money before sending any.

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Regulatory Licenses

ADFX holds a tier-1 or tier-2 licence that we confirmed on the regulator's own register. Each licence below opens its record of what that register says.

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Licences on record
3
Confirmed on register
3
Tier 1 or 2
1
Offshore
2

WIKILIX

Licence intelligence

The strongest of 3 licences on file

Licence Verification Record

Australia Securities & Investment Commission 257679

Wikilix read the ASIC register on Aug 28, 2026. This is what it said.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Authority strength
Tier 1
Licence type
Institution Forex License (STP)
Register status
Regulated
Effective
Feb 17, 2004
Shown on the ADFX website
Shown

Checked Aug 28, 2026

What our check found

AFSL 257679 is in force and is published by the licensee on its own regulatory information page, together with its ACN and ABN. Its scope is limited: advice on and dealing in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts for wholesale clients only, so it carries none of the retail client protections.

Client protection under this licence

  • No compensation schemeNo mandatory insurance (but strict fund segregation)
  • Negative balance protection
  • Complaints routeAFCA
  • Maximum leverage1:28

These are the rules ASIC sets for the firms it licenses. They are not a statement about how ADFX applies them, or about which of its companies would hold your account.

A licence record describes what an authority published. It is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.

Open the ASIC licence recordAbout ASIC

Tier 3 and 4 authorities

2 licences
Client acceptance

Country availability

Where ADFX says it will and won't take clients

1 country

Explicitly accepted

Named as accepted — not a full list of served markets

AUAustralia
How we know — 4 sources
  1. 1Regulatory Information page, 'Where we can act': the website and services are intended for residents of Australia only, and the licence authorises financial services in Australia. Australia is therefore the one explicitly accepted jurisdiction.
  2. 2The same clause states the site is not directed at any person in any jurisdiction outside Australia. That is a category-level exclusion rather than a named country list, so no individual country codes are recorded as confirmed blocks.
  3. 3Regulatory Information page, 'Who we can act for': services are limited to wholesale clients under sections 761G and 761GA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth); retail clients are refused outright regardless of country.
  4. 4Homepage, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Risk Disclosure Statement were read; none publishes a restricted-country list. There is no signup form with a country selector - onboarding runs through an enquiry form that collects no country.
Recorded by WIKILIX research, not published by the broker, and not a guarantee. A country listed nowhere above is not thereby accepted — check ADFX's own terms before you open an account.
Websites

Global Domains

One domain on record. All active and served over HTTPS.

1 domain
  • ad-fx.comBackupActiveHTTPS
Domains recorded by Wikilix. Only a domain listed here is known to belong to this broker.
Legal entities

Corporate Network

3 legal entities behind the ADFX brand.

3 entities
  • ADFX Global Pty LimitedActiveAustraliaRegistration ACN 096 386 686Established Mar 30, 2001Australian private company, ABN 13 096 386 686, active since 30 March 2001; holder of AFSL 257679. Previously traded as Advance Trading Australia Pty Ltd.
  • ADFX Global limitedActiveVanuatuVanuatu entity named as the holder of Vanuatu licence 701016. Not named anywhere on the broker's own website; no public Vanuatu company register was reachable to confirm its registration number or incorporation date.
  • TradingDynamix LtdActiveSeychellesSeychelles entity recorded as the holder of licence SD1661 under the ADFX brand. It is a different company from the Australian licensee and is not named on the broker's own website; its registration could not be confirmed in a reachable public registry.
Entities named in the broker's own documents and company registers, recorded by Wikilix.
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Company Registration

The operating company is ADFX GLOBAL PTY LIMITED. Registered in Australia. Registration number ACN 096 386 686 / ABN 13 096 386 686.

Verified on registry
Legal entity
ADFX GLOBAL PTY LIMITED
Registration number
ACN 096 386 686 / ABN 13 096 386 686
Jurisdiction
Australia
Incorporated
Mar 30, 2001
Registry
Australian Business Register (ABN Lookup)
Registered address
'Angel Place', Level 17, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about ADFX

Most Popular Questions

The company has been on the Australian Business Register since 30 March 2001, and its AFSL has been in force since 17 February 2004. That is a genuinely long operating history for a financial services firm, and it is one of the strongest points in its favour. The current wholesale advisory website, however, is recent: its regulatory information page is versioned 1.0 with an effective date of 24 May 2026.

By email at compliance@ad-fx.com, or through the enquiry form at . The office address is 'Angel Place', Level 17, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000. No telephone number, live chat or social media account is published on the site.

WIKILIX found no evidence of one at the Australian company. ADFX Global Pty Limited is a real, registry-confirmed company holding a real AFSL, at a verifiable Sydney address, and its disclosure of what the licence does and does not cover is unusually frank. The genuine risk is a different one: the ADFX brand also carries offshore permissions the official site never mentions, one of them licensed to another company entirely. If you meet a retail trading offer using the ADFX name, treat it as unconnected to the Australian licensee until the operator proves otherwise.

Two offshore permissions are recorded under the ADFX brand: a Seychelles securities dealer licence SD1661 and a Vanuatu licence 701016 effective 6 February 2026. Neither appears anywhere on the official website. The Seychelles licence is recorded against TradingDynamix Ltd, a company with no stated connection to the Australian licensee, and the Vanuatu licence against an entity named ADFX Global limited. Both are low-tier offshore permissions with no client money protection scheme behind them.

Only if you are an Australian resident. The regulatory information page states that the website and the services are intended for residents of Australia only, that the licence authorises financial services in Australia, and that the site is not directed at any person in a jurisdiction where such use would be contrary to local law. The site is published in English only.

A substantial set, and ADFX lists them itself. Wholesale clients are not entitled to a Financial Services Guide, a Product Disclosure Statement or a Statement of Advice, are not covered by the statutory best interests duty for personal advice, and have no access to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. That last point matters most: there is no free external dispute-resolution scheme to fall back on.

ADFX requires evidence before it will act for anyone. Depending on which statutory test applies, that may include a certificate from a qualified accountant confirming net assets of at least $2.5 million, or gross income of at least $250,000 in each of the last two financial years. The firm invites prospective clients who are unsure to email compliance@ad-fx.com.

None are published. The site names no MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader or proprietary terminal, and offers no platform download. The service described is research and adviser consultation, delivered by report and by phone.

The official website publishes no leverage figure, no spread schedule, no commission rate and no execution model, because it does not operate a trading service. Any leverage or spread figure circulating against the ADFX name does not come from the Australian licensee's own website, and WIKILIX has not written such figures into this profile.

There is none, because there is no trading account to fund. The site publishes no minimum deposit, no deposit method and no withdrawal method. The only money that changes hands is the monthly advisory subscription fee.

Three monthly advisory plans are published, in Australian dollars including GST. Market Intelligence is AUD 699 per month for weekly market commentary and a monthly research report. Professional Advisory is AUD 1,199 per month, adding an assigned adviser and weekly phone consultations. Strategic Advisory is AUD 3,999 per month, with a dedicated adviser, bespoke research and up to two consultations a week.

The operator is ADFX Global Pty Limited, an Australian private company with ACN 096 386 686 and ABN 13 096 386 686, registered office at 'Angel Place', Level 17, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000. WIKILIX confirmed the company on the Australian Business Register, where it has been active since 30 March 2001. It previously traded under the name Advance Trading Australia Pty Ltd.

No. The official website offers no live or demo trading account of any kind. ADFX states it provides financial services only to wholesale clients as defined in sections 761G and 761GA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), and that if you are a retail client it cannot provide services to you and you should not rely on anything on the site. What it sells instead are monthly advisory subscriptions.

Yes, but narrowly. ADFX Global Pty Limited holds Australian Financial Services Licence No. 257679 from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, in force since 17 February 2004, and publishes it on its own . The licence authorises financial product advice on, and dealing in, derivatives and foreign exchange contracts for wholesale clients only. It does not authorise a retail forex or CFD service, and the firm says plainly that holding an AFSL does not mean ASIC endorses or recommends it.

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