#1
Ebury Partners Markets Ltd
RegulatedUnited KingdomEst. 2009FCA
Regulation
License
Spread
84.8Score
Ten brokers, ordered by WIKILIX score, each holding a licence from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. They were drawn from a pool of 79 ASIC licensed firms that carry a clean status in our records and have been trading for at least five years. Scores across that pool run from 50.1 to 84.8, with a median of 56.4. The ten below start at 84.8 and stop at 68.2.
| # | Broker | Score | Regulators on record | Opened | Max leverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ebury | 84.8 | FCA, ASIC, SFC, FINTRAC, AMF, DFSA | 2009 | 1:1 |
| 2 | HANTEC MARKETS | 83.1 | FCA, ASIC | 2009 | 1:500 |
| 3 | RMS TRADE | 79.9 | ASIC, FCA, CySEC, BaFin, DFSA, CMA, SCB | 2010 | Not recorded |
| 4 | WARWICK CAPITAL | 78.1 | ASIC, FCA | 2010 | Not recorded |
| 5 | Velocity Trade | 76.4 | ASIC, FCA, FSCA | 2007 | 1:500 |
| 6 | InteractiveBrokers | 72.5 | ASIC, FCA, SFC, CIRO, CySEC and six more | 1996 | 1:400 |
| 7 | IG | 69.5 | ASIC, FCA, FMA, MAS, DFSA, FSCA, BaFin | 1974 | 1:400 |
| 8 | AETOS | 69.1 | ASIC, FCA | 2021 | 1:400 |
| 9 | FOREX.com | 68.3 | ASIC, FCA, NFA, CySEC, MAS, CIRO | 2006 | 1:200 |
| 10 | Hantec Bullion | 68.2 | HKGX, ASIC, FCA, VFSC | 1990 | 1:100 |
How this ranking was built
Our database holds 235 broker records carrying an ASIC licence. Requiring a WIKILIX score of 50 or better leaves 146. Requiring a recorded status of regulation, which drops the records flagged as suspicious clones or as operating beyond the scope of a licence, brings that to 97. A five year minimum on the recorded opening date leaves 79, and those 79 are the pool. The ten on this page are the ten highest scores in it, in that order, with nothing adjusted by hand.
Score order is not brand order. Ebury Partners Markets, a corporate payments and currency firm, leads on 84.8. IG Group has been trading since 1974, longer than anything else in the top ten, and sits seventh on 69.5. AETOS opened in April 2021 and still reaches eighth. Across the wider pool, 38 of the 79 opened before 2010 and 64 hold licences from two or more authorities, so a long record and a broad licence footprint are ordinary here rather than exceptional.
What the score measures, and what it leaves out
The WIKILIX score is built from a broker's record: licences matched to regulator registers, the tier and onshore or offshore standing of the authorities that issued them, the length of the operating history, and any warning flag against the firm. It carries no pricing information. There is no spread, commission, swap or minimum deposit figure anywhere in this ranking, because we hold none of those numbers. A ranking that claims to order brokers by execution quality owes you the source of that measurement. We cannot give one, so we do not make the claim.
What an ASIC licence covers
ASIC regulates corporations, markets and financial services in Australia. An Australian Financial Services licence carries obligations that reach the retail client directly: client money held in segregated accounts, capital and reporting requirements on the licensee, and disputes that can be taken to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. Since March 2021 an ASIC product intervention order has capped retail CFD leverage at 1:30 on major currency pairs. Seven of the ten brokers above record a maximum leverage well above that, up to 1:500. Read those figures as the maximum recorded against the broker record, not as leverage an ASIC licensed entity offers an Australian retail client.
Checks worth making before you open an account
- Search ASIC Connect's professional registers by AFS licence number rather than by trading name, and confirm the licence is current: ASIC register search.
- Compare the legal entity in your client agreement with the entity named on the licence. Hantec Markets Limited, Hantec Bullion Investment Limited and Hantec Markets (V) Company Limited are three separate records in our database, and two of them appear above.
- Check where the entity taking your deposit is incorporated. Seven of these ten are domiciled outside Australia, in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Ireland and the United States.
- Confirm the entity is covered by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority if a dispute route matters to you.
What this page cannot tell you: what any of these firms charges, how its platform executes, or whether it will accept you as a client from where you live. The order reflects licences and records held in the WIKILIX database on the day it was built, and a licence record can change without the broker announcing it. Verify anything that matters on the regulator's own register before you deposit.
10brokers on this list
Researched & ranked by the Wikilix team
- #2
Hantec Markets Limited
RegulatedUnited KingdomEst. 2009FCARegulationLicenseSpread83.1Score - #3
Pepperstone Group Limited
Suspicious CloneAustraliaEst. 2010ASIC
RegulationLicenseSpread81.4Score - #4
WARWICK CAPITAL LIMITED
RegulatedIrelandEst. 2010ASICRegulationLicenseSpread78.1Score - #5
Velocity Trade Limited
RegulatedAustraliaEst. 2007ASIC
RegulationLicenseSpread81.3Score - #6
Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited
RegulatedHong KongEst. 1996MISA
RegulationLicenseSpread73.5Score - #7
IG Group Limited
RegulatedUnited KingdomEst. 1974ASIC
RegulationLicenseSpread70.2Score - #8
AETOS Markets (V) Ltd.
RegulatedAustraliaEst. 2021ASICRegulationLicenseSpread69.1Score - #9
GAIN Global Markets, Inc.
RegulatedUnited StatesEst. 2006ASIC
RegulationLicenseSpread68.6Score - #10
Hantec Bullion Investment Limited
RegulatedHong KongEst. 1990HKGX
RegulationLicenseSpread68.1Score
This page is a snapshot rather than a live query. The ten brokers are pinned in the order the score put them in on the day it was built, so a change in a licence record or a score will not move the list until it is rebuilt. The pool query behind it, an ASIC licence plus a clean recorded status plus five years of trading, is the same query you can run against the full broker directory to see all 79.
If you want the population rather than the shortlist, the wider rankings are more useful. The ASIC list filtered to firms with fifteen or more years of operation covers the long established end of the same set. The FCA ranking covers the 35 brokers in this pool that also hold a UK licence, alongside the rest of the UK regulated field. The FSCA rankings do the same for South Africa, which matters here because Velocity Trade and IG hold both an Australian and a South African licence.
Two things this list will never carry: a price comparison, and a recommendation. We publish what the licence records say and how the score was calculated. Whether a broker suits you turns on costs, platform behaviour and client eligibility rules that sit outside our data, and reading the client agreement of the specific entity you would be contracting with is the only way to settle those.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked questions
Answers from the Wikilix research team about this ranking.
Most Popular Questions
No, and this list does not tell you which countries each firm accepts. Our data records where a broker is headquartered and which authorities have licensed it, neither of which is its client eligibility policy. That is set in the broker's own terms and can differ by entity. Check the client agreement for the entity you would be signing with.
This page cannot answer that on its own. Our records show which authorities have licensed a broker, and among the ten above Velocity Trade and IG both hold an FSCA licence alongside their ASIC one. WIKILIX publishes separate FSCA rankings that cover the South African field properly. A licence issued in a country is also not the same as a broker accepting clients from it.
35 of the 79 brokers in this pool also hold a licence from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, including every one of the ten listed above. Ebury, Hantec Markets, IG and FOREX.com appear on both registers. Each licence is issued to a named legal entity, so check which entity your account would actually be with.
IC Markets Global is in the pool and scores 50.7, which places it in the bottom ten of the 79. Our score rewards a verified licence footprint and a long clean record. Lists that put it first are ordering on spreads and platform features, which are not in our data. The two rankings measure different things.
It is calculated from a broker's record in our database: the licences matched to regulator registers, the tier and onshore or offshore standing of those authorities, the length of operating history, and any warning flags. It does not measure spreads, commissions, execution speed or customer service, because we hold no data on any of them.
IG Group, with a recorded opening date of 1974, is the oldest firm in the top ten. Interactive Brokers Hong Kong dates from 1996 and Hantec Bullion from 1990. Older records exist in the wider pool: J.P. Morgan is recorded from 1799 and HSBC from 1865, though neither reaches the top ten on score.
235 broker records carry an ASIC licence. Of those, 146 hold a WIKILIX score of 50 or higher, 97 also carry a clean recorded status, and 79 additionally have at least five years of trading behind them. That group of 79 is the pool this top ten was selected from, and the wider ASIC rankings cover the rest.
They are the ten highest WIKILIX scores among 79 brokers that hold an ASIC licence, carry a recorded status of regulation, and have at least five years of operating history. Score is the only ordering criterion, and no broker was moved up or down by hand. Every figure on the page came from a live query against the database rather than from reputation.