{ "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": "desktop-broker", "name": "Desktop Broker", "product": null, "website": "https://www.desktopbroker.com.au/", "category": "adviser_only", "checked": "2026-10-15", "status_note": "Operating but adviser-only: accounts are opened by a financial adviser; retail investors cannot sign up directly.", "successor_slug": null, "legal_entity": "Third Party Platform Pty Ltd", "entity_note": "Trades as Desktop Broker; owned by Bell Financial Group.", "authorised_representative_of": null, "authorised_representative_no": null, "afsl": "314341", "abn": "74121227905", "acn": null, "holding": "chess", "holding_note": "Participant Sponsorship Agreement with Desktop Broker. The FSG says you must be the Registered Holder in CHESS of products you sell.", "asx_coverage": null, "asx_coverage_note": null, "execution_participant": "Third Party Platform Pty Ltd", "clearing_participant": "Third Party Platform Pty Ltd", "international_shares": null, "brokerage": null, "account_fee": null, "expected": null, "quotes": { "brokerage": { "text": "With respect to brokerage, Desktop Broker has an agreement with your financial adviser under which your financial adviser determines the amount of brokerage that you will be charged.", "url": "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_fsg.pdf", "checked": { "status": "found", "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00" }, "citation": { "quote": "With respect to brokerage, Desktop Broker has an agreement with your financial adviser under which your financial adviser determines the amount of brokerage that you will be charged.", "url": "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_fsg.pdf#page=1", "page": 1, "document_sha256": "ceebaf90235561964e83875565137365e2c48f2a3d9f6c8ca6623b9183d0c41b", "confirmed": "2026-11-13" } }, "holding": { "text": "This means that you must be the Registered Holder in CHESS of the financial products to be sold at the time that you place an order with Desktop Broker.", "url": "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_fsg.pdf", "checked": { "status": "found", "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00" }, "citation": { "quote": "This means that you must be the Registered Holder in CHESS of the financial products to be sold at the time that you place an order with Desktop Broker.", "url": "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_fsg.pdf#page=1", "page": 1, "document_sha256": "ceebaf90235561964e83875565137365e2c48f2a3d9f6c8ca6623b9183d0c41b", "confirmed": "2026-11-13" } }, "execution": { "text": "Desktop Broker is a Participant of the ASX Group and Trading Participant of Cboe Australia.", "url": "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_fsg.pdf", "checked": { "status": "found", "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00" }, "citation": { "quote": "Desktop Broker is a Participant of the ASX Group and Trading Participant of Cboe Australia.", "url": "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_fsg.pdf#page=1", "page": 1, "document_sha256": "ceebaf90235561964e83875565137365e2c48f2a3d9f6c8ca6623b9183d0c41b", "confirmed": "2026-11-13" } } }, "sources": [ "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_fsg.pdf", "https://desktopbroker.com.au/", "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_terms_conditions.pdf" ], "documents": [ { "title": "Financial Services Guide", "url": "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_fsg.pdf" }, { "title": "Terms and Conditions", "url": "https://desktopbroker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/desktopbroker_terms_conditions.pdf" } ], "curation_notes": "Brokerage is set by the client's adviser; Desktop Broker keeps the greater of up to $30 or 0.3% on internet equities trades. FSG dated 19 February 2025. The site is powered by Bell Direct's platform. desktopbroker.com.au returns 403 to curl, so pages were fetched with a headless browser. The three quotes come from the raw FSG text.", "licence": { "afsl": "314341", "name": "THIRD PARTY PLATFORM PTY LTD", "abn": "74121227905", "acn": null, "licensed_since": "2007-09-28", "locality": "Melbourne VIC 3000", "authorisations": { "advice_securities": [ "retail" ], "custody": [ "retail" ], "deal_securities_for_clients": [ "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": "Only through a financial adviser", "holding_label": "CHESS-sponsored", "prices": null, "prices_native": null, "fx": null, "plans": [], "etf_brokerage": null, "etf_prices": null, "etf_sell_prices": null, "page": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/desktop-broker/", "json": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/v1/brokers/desktop-broker.json" } }