ASIC Regulated Brokers: The Complete Register

Two hundred and thirty-seven brokers in the WIKILIX database hold a licence from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, and this page lists every one of them, ranked by WIKILIX score. It is the complete ASIC register as we hold it, not a shortlist. 154 of the 237 carry a clean regulation status, and the other 83 carry a flag we have recorded against them, and both groups are here. A page that quietly dropped the flagged firms would tell you less than the register does.

ASIC is a tier-1 regulator, so a broker holding an Australian Financial Services Licence has met capital and conduct requirements that most offshore registries never ask for. That is why the ASIC name carries weight, and why it gets copied. The score in the table below is the WIKILIX composite: it reflects how complete and consistent a broker's record is across its licences and its operating history, and it is not a safety rating. That gap matters here, because sorting by score pushes a few flagged entries near the top.

The entry listed as Blackrock shows why the full register is worth reading. It scores 83.7, sits near the top, and is flagged as a suspicious clone: a Hong Kong firm registered in 2023, not the asset manager whose name it borrows. A curated "best ASIC brokers" page would drop it or, worse, rank it. Here it stays visible with its flag attached.

What an ASIC licence covers, and what this list required

Inclusion needs one thing: at least one active ASIC licence recorded against the broker. We applied no score, age or status filter, so the flagged firms appear alongside the clean ones. For the clean entities the licence is not a formality. ASIC caps retail CFD leverage at 1:30 and requires client money to sit in segregated accounts, with disputes handled by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. Several brokers here still advertise 1:500, 1:1000, even 1:5000, which usually signals the offshore arm rather than the ASIC-licensed one, since those figures cannot legally be offered to Australian retail clients.

• 154 carry a clean regulation status; 83 carry a flag.
• 40 are flagged as suspicious clones, 19 as offshore, and 3 as scams.
• Scores run from 22.0 to 84.8, with a median near 52.
• The oldest lineage is J.P. Morgan, recorded from 1799, and more than twenty of the firms here were operating before 2000.

What the register does not tell you

An ASIC licence attaches to one legal entity, and many groups hold it through an Australian arm while onboarding most clients through an offshore one. Pepperstone and IC Markets both appear here with an ASIC licence, and each also holds an offshore one, Pepperstone in the Bahamas and IC Markets in Seychelles, so the company that opens your account may not be the Australian entity. The register holds nothing on spreads, execution or whether a broker accepts clients from your country, and it will not tell you which of a firm's licences applies to you. Find the entity named in your client agreement, then check its AFSL number on ASIC Connect before you deposit.

• Read the client agreement for the entity name, not the marketing site, and match it to the AFSL.
• Search the AFSL number on ASIC Connect rather than trusting a badge on the website.
• Check whether the ASIC-licensed entity is the one holding your funds, or a related offshore company.
• Treat a familiar brand name as a reason to verify: the clone flag exists because names get reused.