{ "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": "halo", "name": "HALO", "product": "HALO Global (HALO Technologies)", "website": "https://www.halo-technologies.com/", "category": "active_asx_retail", "checked": "2026-10-15", "status_note": "Operating; FSG dated December 2025 (issue date 24 September 2025 on its page).", "successor_slug": null, "legal_entity": "HALO Technologies Pty Ltd", "entity_note": null, "authorised_representative_of": "Macrovue Pty Ltd", "authorised_representative_no": "1261916", "afsl": "484264", "abn": "54623830866", "acn": null, "holding": "custodial", "holding_note": "Macrovue provides custodial services to the client; IB (and Clearstream for managed funds) act as sub-custodian. The client is the beneficial owner.", "asx_coverage": null, "asx_coverage_note": null, "execution_participant": "Interactive Brokers Australia Pty Ltd", "clearing_participant": "Interactive Brokers Australia Pty Ltd", "international_shares": true, "brokerage": { "currency": "AUD", "gst": "included", "tiers": [ { "up_to": 12500, "fee": 15, "percent": null, "min": null, "max": null }, { "up_to": null, "fee": null, "percent": 0.12, "min": null, "max": null } ], "rule": "AU$15 per trade up to AU$12,500, or 0.12% per trade over AU$12,500 (Australian or international shares).", "conditions": [ "The rate is for non-advised clients." ] }, "account_fee": { "amount": 10, "period": "month", "percent_pa": null, "note": "AU$10.00 per month account-keeping fee." }, "expected": { "1000": 15, "10000": 15, "50000": 60 }, "quotes": { "brokerage": { "text": "The remuneration earned by HALO for trades under AU$12,500 is AU$15 (incl. GST). For trades over AU$12,500, the fee is 0.12% per trade (incl. GST).", "url": "https://prod-mv-public.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/default/acknowledgement/Financial+services+guide+Dec2025.pdf", "checked": { "status": "unreadable", "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00" }, "citation": { "quote": "The remuneration earned by HALO for trades under AU$12,500 is AU$15 (incl. GST). For trades over AU$12,500, the fee is 0.12% per trade (incl. GST).", "url": "https://prod-mv-public.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/default/acknowledgement/Financial+services+guide+Dec2025.pdf" } }, "holding": { "text": "Macrovue, in turn, provides custodial services to the client.", "url": "https://prod-mv-public.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/default/acknowledgement/Financial+services+guide+Dec2025.pdf", "checked": { "status": "unreadable", "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00" }, "citation": { "quote": "Macrovue, in turn, provides custodial services to the client.", "url": "https://prod-mv-public.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/default/acknowledgement/Financial+services+guide+Dec2025.pdf" } }, "execution": { "text": "Macrovue Pty Ltd has entered into a Consolidated Account Clearing Agreement with Interactive Brokers Australia Pty Ltd ABN 98 166 929 568 (IB), for securities trading, and Clearstream Australia Pty Limited ABN 53 062 527 575 (Clearstream) for managed funds, under which both IB and Clearstream will respectively provide: i) execution services; ii) clearing services; and iii) subcustodial services to Macrovue in its capacity as a custodial services provider licensed under AFSL 484264.", "url": "https://prod-mv-public.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/default/acknowledgement/Financial+services+guide+Dec2025.pdf", "checked": { "status": "unreadable", "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00" }, "citation": { "quote": "Macrovue Pty Ltd has entered into a Consolidated Account Clearing Agreement with Interactive Brokers Australia Pty Ltd ABN 98 166 929 568 (IB), for securities trading, and Clearstream Australia Pty Limited ABN 53 062 527 575 (Clearstream) for managed funds, under which both IB and Clearstream will respectively provide: i) execution services; ii) clearing services; and iii) subcustodial services to Macrovue in its capacity as a custodial services provider licensed under AFSL 484264.", "url": "https://prod-mv-public.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/default/acknowledgement/Financial+services+guide+Dec2025.pdf" } }, "coverage": { "text": "Invest directly in over 35,000 securities across 30 global exchanges, and multiple managed funds.", "url": "https://www.halo-technologies.com/product/invest/", "checked": { "status": "found", "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00" }, "citation": { "quote": "Invest directly in over 35,000 securities across 30 global exchanges, and multiple managed funds.", "url": "https://www.halo-technologies.com/product/invest/#:~:text=Invest%20directly%20in%20over%2035%2C000,exchanges%2C%20and%20multiple%20managed%20funds.", "document_sha256": "ebe32a5d9fac0966563eb6edc49b61ee987383373b142a364c43f11b5b75527f", "confirmed": "2026-11-13" } } }, "sources": [ "https://prod-mv-public.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/default/acknowledgement/Financial+services+guide+Dec2025.pdf", "https://www.halo-technologies.com/product/invest/" ], "documents": [ { "title": "Financial Services Guide", "url": "https://prod-mv-public.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/default/acknowledgement/Financial+services+guide+Dec2025.pdf" }, { "title": "HALO Invest", "url": "https://www.halo-technologies.com/product/invest/" } ], "curation_notes": "The FSG PDF is image-only; the quotes come from tesseract OCR (checked for sense; small OCR errors possible). AFSL 484264 is the licensee Macrovue Pty Ltd. At exactly AU$12,500 the FSG wording is ambiguous (\"under\" for the flat fee, \"over\" for the percentage); the flat fee is used. Not related to Marketech.", "licence": { "afsl": "484264", "name": "MACROVUE PTY LIMITED", "abn": "98600022679", "acn": null, "licensed_since": "2016-05-26", "locality": "Sydney NSW 2000", "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": "Open to new retail clients for ASX shares", "holding_label": "Custodial", "prices": { "500": 15.0, "1000": 15.0, "2000": 15.0, "5000": 15.0, "10000": 15.0, "25000": 30.0, "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/halo/", "json": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/v1/brokers/halo.json" } }