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 "dataset": "Australian online stockbrokers",
 "source": "Each broker's own pricing page, Financial Services Guide and terms (brokerage, CHESS sponsorship or custody, execution and clearing); ASIC's Australian Financial Services Licensee register on data.gov.au (licence, ABN, authorisations)",
 "licence_note": "Brokerage a broker charges in US dollars is converted at the Reserve Bank of Australia's 4pm AUD/USD rate (CC BY 4.0, source: Reserve Bank of Australia). The licence fields are from ASIC's AFS Licensee dataset on data.gov.au, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. Brokerage, holding model, execution and clearing are facts read from each broker's own published pages, and every one carries the URL and the sentence it was read from. Brokerage is the standard online rate for one ASX trade; it changes without notice and some brokers price differently for frequent traders, other settlement accounts or phone orders. This is reference data, not advice about which broker to use.",
 "broker": {
  "slug": "commsec",
  "name": "CommSec",
  "product": "Australian Shares account",
  "website": "https://www.commsec.com.au/",
  "category": "active_asx_retail",
  "checked": "2026-10-15",
  "status_note": "Operating. The standard online rates need settlement to a CDIA or CommSec Margin Loan and CHESS sponsorship with CommSec.",
  "successor_slug": null,
  "legal_entity": "Commonwealth Securities Limited",
  "entity_note": null,
  "authorised_representative_of": null,
  "authorised_representative_no": null,
  "afsl": "238814",
  "abn": "60067254399",
  "acn": null,
  "holding": "chess",
  "holding_note": "Australian Shares accounts are CHESS-sponsored by CommSec; FSG note 6 makes CHESS Participant Sponsorship a condition of the standard online rates.",
  "asx_coverage": null,
  "asx_coverage_note": "over 2,000 ASX-listed shares and ETFs",
  "execution_participant": "Commonwealth Securities Limited",
  "clearing_participant": "Commonwealth Securities Limited",
  "international_shares": true,
  "brokerage": {
   "currency": "AUD",
   "gst": "included",
   "tiers": [
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     "up_to": 1000,
     "fee": 5,
     "percent": null,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    },
    {
     "up_to": 3000,
     "fee": 10,
     "percent": null,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    },
    {
     "up_to": 10000,
     "fee": 19.95,
     "percent": null,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    },
    {
     "up_to": 25000,
     "fee": 29.95,
     "percent": null,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    },
    {
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     "fee": null,
     "percent": 0.12,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    }
   ],
   "rule": "Online and settled to a CDIA or CommSec Margin Loan: $5 up to $1,000, $10 up to $3,000, $19.95 up to $10,000, $29.95 up to $25,000, then 0.12% of trade value.",
   "conditions": [
    "Settlement to a CDIA or CommSec Margin Loan is required for these rates (FSG note 6 also makes CHESS Participant Sponsorship a condition).",
    "Online trades settled into a bank account of your choice cost $29.95 up to $9,999.99 and 0.31% from $10,000."
   ]
  },
  "account_fee": null,
  "expected": {
   "1000": 5.0,
   "10000": 19.95,
   "50000": 60.0
  },
  "quotes": {
   "brokerage": {
    "text": "Trade online (via website, mobile apps or other platforms) and settle your trade to a CDIA or CommSec Margin Loan $5.00 (Up to and including $1,000) $10.00 (Over $1,000 up to $3,000 (inclusive)) $19.95 (Over $3,000 up to $10,000 (inclusive)) $29.95 (Over $10,000 up to $25,000 (inclusive)) 0.12% (Over $25,000)",
    "url": "https://www2.commsec.com.au/media/57221/fsg.pdf",
    "checked": {
     "status": "scattered",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "Trade online (via website, mobile apps or other platforms) and settle your trade to a CDIA or CommSec Margin Loan $5.00 (Up to and including $1,000) $10.00 (Over $1,000 up to $3,000 (inclusive)) $19.95 (Over $3,000 up to $10,000 (inclusive)) $29.95 (Over $10,000 up to $25,000 (inclusive)) 0.12% (Over $25,000)",
     "url": "https://www2.commsec.com.au/media/57221/fsg.pdf#page=11",
     "page": 11,
     "document_sha256": "0751615dfcc0f1cd90fa2f6a167befb18e836692a2bcec64fba50061cbce81f3",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   },
   "holding": {
    "text": "CommSec Australian Shares Accounts give you access to buy and sell over 2,000 ASX listed shares and ETFs, with CHESS-sponsored holdings.",
    "url": "https://www.commsec.com.au/products/australian-share-trading.html",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "CommSec Australian Shares Accounts give you access to buy and sell over 2,000 ASX listed shares and ETFs, with CHESS-sponsored holdings.",
     "url": "https://www.commsec.com.au/products/australian-share-trading.html#:~:text=CommSec%20Australian%20Shares%20Accounts%20give,and%20ETFs%2C%20with%20CHESS%2Dsponsored%20holdings.",
     "document_sha256": "d9c4cdedd12fa9d38b9417e5d7313d3c8ec775af6e470009b62830e73feceb54",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   },
   "execution": {
    "text": "CommSec is a Market Participant of ASX Limited and Cboe Australia Pty Limited, a Clearing Participant of ASX Clear Pty Limited and a Settlement Participant of ASX Settlement Pty Limited.",
    "url": "https://www2.commsec.com.au/media/57221/fsg.pdf",
    "checked": {
     "status": "missing",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "CommSec is a Market Participant of ASX Limited and Cboe Australia Pty Limited, a Clearing Participant of ASX Clear Pty Limited and a Settlement Participant of ASX Settlement Pty Limited.",
     "url": "https://www2.commsec.com.au/media/57221/fsg.pdf#page=2",
     "page": 2,
     "document_sha256": "0c50854bd58c16a82afe885cb14e28802c710f33bcc05d97114470448a0cde7d",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-11"
    }
   },
   "coverage": {
    "text": "CommSec Australian Shares Accounts give you access to buy and sell over 2,000 ASX listed shares and ETFs, with CHESS-sponsored holdings.",
    "url": "https://www.commsec.com.au/products/australian-share-trading.html",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "CommSec Australian Shares Accounts give you access to buy and sell over 2,000 ASX listed shares and ETFs, with CHESS-sponsored holdings.",
     "url": "https://www.commsec.com.au/products/australian-share-trading.html#:~:text=CommSec%20Australian%20Shares%20Accounts%20give,and%20ETFs%2C%20with%20CHESS%2Dsponsored%20holdings.",
     "document_sha256": "d9c4cdedd12fa9d38b9417e5d7313d3c8ec775af6e470009b62830e73feceb54",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "https://www.commsec.com.au/products/australian-share-trading.html",
   "https://www2.commsec.com.au/media/57221/fsg.pdf",
   "https://www.commsec.com.au/support/rates-and-fees.html"
  ],
  "documents": [
   {
    "title": "Rates and fees",
    "url": "https://www.commsec.com.au/support/rates-and-fees.html"
   },
   {
    "title": "Financial Services Guide",
    "url": "https://www2.commsec.com.au/media/57221/fsg.pdf"
   },
   {
    "title": "Australian Shares",
    "url": "https://www.commsec.com.au/products/australian-share-trading.html"
   }
  ],
  "curation_notes": "The brokerage quote is the FSG Part Two table row with its two columns joined. The rates-and-fees page builds its tables with JavaScript, so the product page and FSG were used. FSG says prices include GST. The website footer names TMX Australia Exchange while the FSG names Cboe Australia; FSG wording used.",
  "licence": {
   "afsl": "238814",
   "name": "COMMONWEALTH SECURITIES LIMITED",
   "abn": "60067254399",
   "acn": null,
   "licensed_since": "2003-12-01",
   "locality": "Sydney NSW 2000",
   "authorisations": {
    "advice_securities": [
     "retail"
    ],
    "custody": [
     "retail"
    ],
    "deal_securities_for_clients": [
     "retail"
    ],
    "issue_securities": [
     "retail"
    ],
    "market_maker": [
     "retail"
    ]
   },
   "source": {
    "dataset": "ASIC AFS Licensee dataset",
    "url": "https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-afs-licensee",
    "release": "https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ab7eddce-84df-4098-bc8f-500d0d9776d1/resource/d98a113d-6b50-40e6-b65f-2612efc877f4/download/afs_lic_202611.csv",
    "last_modified": "2026-11-11T20:51:07.739275",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia"
   },
   "disagreements": []
  },
  "category_label": "Open to new retail clients for ASX shares",
  "holding_label": "CHESS-sponsored",
  "prices": {
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   "1000": 5.0,
   "2000": 10.0,
   "5000": 19.95,
   "10000": 19.95,
   "25000": 29.95,
   "50000": 60.0,
   "100000": 120.0
  },
  "prices_native": null,
  "fx": null,
  "plans": [],
  "etf_brokerage": null,
  "etf_prices": null,
  "etf_sell_prices": null,
  "page": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/commsec/",
  "json": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/v1/brokers/commsec.json"
 }
}