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🇦🇺 ASIC Australia

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Check a firm

  1. Search the ASIC register ↗ for the exact company name and licence number the broker gives you.
  2. Match the website and phone number on the register to the ones you were given. Clone firms copy real names.
  3. Read the ASIC warnings ↗ and our copy of 4,615 ASIC warnings.
  4. Also check IOSCO I-SCAN ↗, which gathers warnings from regulators worldwide.

Official site: asic.gov.au

Where to complain

  1. Complain to the firm first, in writing, and keep copies. Most schemes need this step.
  2. If it isn't fixed, go to Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) ↗. Using it is free.
  3. Tell the regulator: ASIC contact and complaints ↗.
  4. If the firm isn't licensed by ASIC, these routes may not help. Report fraud to your local police too.

Watch out: after you complain online, "recovery" firms may contact you. Regulators and ombudsmen never charge to get money back. Read about recovery scams.

Brokers in our list that state a ASIC licence (39)

ASIC register: AFS licensees authorised to make a market in derivatives or FX for retail clients (119)

Firms whose AFS licence conditions, as published in ASIC's licensee dataset, let them make a market in derivatives or foreign exchange contracts for retail clients. Checked on 17 Oct 2026. Banks, fund managers and trustees are left out.