ASIC – Australian Financial Services Authorised Representative Dataset

Update April 2022

We have replaced the .xlsx file resources for all our datasets. This was required due to the API and web page search functionality no longer being supported for .xlsx files on the Data.Gov platform.

Update November 2018 - frequency change to Australian Financial Services Authorised Representatives dataset

From 15 November 2018, the Australian Financial Services Authorised Representative dataset will be updated weekly every Thursday.

Dataset summary

ASIC is Australia’s corporate, markets and financial services regulator. ASIC contributes to Australia’s economic reputation and wellbeing by ensuring that Australia's financial markets are fair and transparent, and supported by confident and informed investors and consumers.

Australian Financial Services Representatives are required to maintain their details on ASIC's registers. Information contained on the Australian Financial Services Representatives Register is made available to the public to search via the ASIC Connect website.

Selected data from the register will be uploaded each month to www.data.gov.au. The data made available will be a snapshot of the register at a point in time. Legislation prescribes the type of information ASIC is allowed to disclose to the public.

The information in the downloadable dataset includes:

• Register Name
• Australian Financial Services Representative number
• Australian Financial Services Licence number
• Representative name
• ABN
• Organisation Number (eg ACN)
• Other role
• Date representative was appointed
• Appointment status
• Date representative appointment ceased (if applicable)
• Australian Financial Services Representative's principal business Address suburb
• Australian Financial Services Representative's principal business Address State/Territory
• Australian Financial Services Representative's principal business Address postcode
• Australian Financial Services Representative's principal business Address Country
• Cross endorsements
• Authority to appoint other representatives (Yes/No)
• Appointing authorised representative number (if applicable)
• Australian Financial Services authorisations
• Same authorisations as licensee (Yes/No)
• Australian Financial Services Representative related business names

Additional information about financial advisers can be found via ASIC's website. Accessing some information may attract a fee.

More information about searching ASIC's registers.