ASIC Regulated Brokers With 15+ Years in Operation

Sixty-five brokers in the WIKILIX database hold a licence from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, have a recorded opening date at least 15 years old, and carry the status label we record as regulation. For scale: 235 brokers here hold an ASIC licence of some kind, 86 of those clear the 15 year threshold, and 21 of that 86 sit outside this list because of a status flag rather than because of their age.

Those 21 break down as 9 recorded as suspicious clones, 6 as exceeding the scope of the licence they hold, 4 as offshore and 2 as unregulated. None of them carries a scam report. The labels are ours, recorded against the firm, and they are the reason those names are not in the grid below.

What the 65 look like

• The median score is 52.2 and the range runs from 37 to 84.8. Ebury Partners Markets Ltd sits at the top on 84.8, with a recorded opening date of 2009.
• 36 are headquartered in Australia. The other 29 are not, which is the most misread thing about a list like this one.
• 49 hold licences from two or more separate authorities, and 20 of the 65 hold an FCA licence alongside their ASIC one.
• 16 hold ASIC and nothing else. Every one of those 16 is an Australian company.
• 20 have a recorded opening date before 2000, and 54 opened before 2010.
• ASIC is a tier-1 authority in our register, so every entry holds at least one tier-1 licence by definition. 25 hold a second one from a different tier-1 authority, most often the FCA.

The longest-established entries

Those dates are the opening dates we hold for the firm. For a bank founded in the 1800s they describe the institution, not its Australian licence, which is much younger in every case. The list also runs wider than retail forex: banks and institutional brokers appear here because a group entity holds an ASIC licence.

How we built this list

Three stored filters and no editorial picks. The first is the ASIC licence itself, read from the licence records held against each broker. The second is 15 years, derived from the recorded opening date, so a firm whose opening date we do not hold is excluded outright rather than treated as new. That is worth knowing if a broker you expected is missing. The third is the status label.

The grid is ordered by the WIKILIX score, our internal 0 to 100 rating. It sets the order and does nothing else here: no broker is on this page or off it because of its score. One caveat on the licence figures. Our regulator lists are deduplicated, so a firm holding three separate ASIC authorisations arrives as a single ASIC entry, which means every count above is a count of authorities rather than of licences.

What an ASIC licence covers, and what it does not

ASIC issues Australian Financial Services licences and publishes them, so a licence number takes about a minute to check on ASIC's own register search. A licence means a firm met the conditions ASIC sets for the activities named on it. It does not certify pricing or service quality, and it does not stretch across every entity in a group that shares a brand.

That last point is why the leverage figures need care. Since 29 March 2021 an ASIC product intervention order has capped retail CFD leverage at 30:1 on major currency pairs, with tighter limits on other assets, and ASIC extended that order to 23 May 2027. Yet 29 of these 65 record a maximum of 1:500 or higher, easyMarkets records 1:2000, and 11 have no leverage figure at all. The number we hold is the highest for the firm, not what an ASIC-licensed entity may offer an Australian retail client. The entity names make the same point: the record behind Interactive Brokers is Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited, and behind FOREX.com sits GAIN Global Markets, Inc.

Before you open an account

• Search ASIC's register for the exact entity named on the client agreement, not the trading brand on the homepage.
• Check that the licence covers the product you intend to trade, since an AFS licence lists specific permissions.
• Work out which entity would hold your money. Several groups here run an Australian company and an offshore one.
• Compare the leverage that entity offers you against the 30:1 retail cap before you treat a headline figure as available to you.

What this page will not tell you: spreads, commissions, execution quality, or whether any of these firms accepts clients from your country. We hold no spread figures, so nothing here is ranked on cost. Licence records reflect what the database holds today, and any licence is worth confirming on ASIC's register before money moves.