{
 "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": "ic-markets-shares",
  "name": "IC Markets Share Trading",
  "product": "IC Shares",
  "website": "https://www.icmarkets.com.au/",
  "category": "status_unclear",
  "checked": "2026-10-15",
  "status_note": "Unclear whether it still takes new clients: its share trading FSG and a support line are still published, but its share trading and pricing pages now lead to its CFD homepage.",
  "successor_slug": null,
  "legal_entity": "International Capital Markets Pty Ltd",
  "entity_note": null,
  "authorised_representative_of": null,
  "authorised_representative_no": null,
  "afsl": "335692",
  "abn": "12123289109",
  "acn": null,
  "holding": "chess",
  "holding_note": "FinEx acts as the CHESS sponsoring participant.",
  "asx_coverage": null,
  "asx_coverage_note": null,
  "execution_participant": "FinClear Execution Ltd",
  "clearing_participant": "FinClear Pty Ltd",
  "international_shares": null,
  "brokerage": null,
  "account_fee": null,
  "expected": null,
  "quotes": {
   "brokerage": {
    "text": "Trade Value Brokerage Fee (incl. GST) Up to $100,000 $7.70 Above $100,000 0.05% of trade value",
    "url": "https://cdn.icmarkets.com.au/uploads/ICM-Share-Financial-Services-Guide.pdf",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "Trade Value Brokerage Fee (incl. GST) Up to $100,000 $7.70 Above $100,000 0.05% of trade value",
     "url": "https://cdn.icmarkets.com.au/uploads/ICM-Share-Financial-Services-Guide.pdf#page=3",
     "page": 3,
     "document_sha256": "1c40da51074e76b16224f9a7c0c72198b4037c8ad120b623d658b837088d600e",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   },
   "holding": {
    "text": "FinEx will also act as your CHESS sponsoring participant when you open a share trading account with IC Markets.",
    "url": "https://cdn.icmarkets.com.au/uploads/ICM-Share-Financial-Services-Guide.pdf",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "FinEx will also act as your CHESS sponsoring participant when you open a share trading account with IC Markets.",
     "url": "https://cdn.icmarkets.com.au/uploads/ICM-Share-Financial-Services-Guide.pdf#page=3",
     "page": 3,
     "document_sha256": "1c40da51074e76b16224f9a7c0c72198b4037c8ad120b623d658b837088d600e",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   },
   "execution": {
    "text": "When you open an Australian securities trading account through IC Markets, FinEx will be the provider of the execution and FinClear Pty Ltd (\"FinClear”), appointed by FinEx, will provide clearing and settlement services in respect of Australian securities on the relevant exchanges.",
    "url": "https://cdn.icmarkets.com.au/uploads/ICM-Share-Financial-Services-Guide.pdf",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "When you open an Australian securities trading account through IC Markets, FinEx will be the provider of the execution and FinClear Pty Ltd (\"FinClear”), appointed by FinEx, will provide clearing and settlement services in respect of Australian securities on the relevant exchanges.",
     "url": "https://cdn.icmarkets.com.au/uploads/ICM-Share-Financial-Services-Guide.pdf#page=2",
     "page": 2,
     "document_sha256": "1c40da51074e76b16224f9a7c0c72198b4037c8ad120b623d658b837088d600e",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "https://www.icmarkets.com.au/en/shares-pricing",
   "https://cdn.icmarkets.com.au/uploads/ICM-Share-Financial-Services-Guide.pdf",
   "https://www.icmarkets.com.au/en/company/legal-documents"
  ],
  "documents": [
   {
    "title": "Shares pricing (now redirects)",
    "url": "https://www.icmarkets.com.au/en/shares-pricing"
   },
   {
    "title": "Share Trading Financial Services Guide",
    "url": "https://cdn.icmarkets.com.au/uploads/ICM-Share-Financial-Services-Guide.pdf"
   },
   {
    "title": "Legal documents",
    "url": "https://www.icmarkets.com.au/en/company/legal-documents"
   }
  ],
  "curation_notes": "Brokerage is null because the service status is unclear. The share FSG (dated 26 May 2025; page header says May 2023) gives $7.70 (incl GST) up to $100,000 and 0.05% above; the roster figures are 7.70 at all three sizes. FinEx is the CHESS sponsoring participant.",
  "licence": {
   "afsl": "335692",
   "name": "INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKETS PTY. LTD.",
   "abn": "12123289109",
   "acn": null,
   "licensed_since": "2009-07-02",
   "locality": "Sydney NSW 2000",
   "authorisations": {
    "advice_securities": [
     "retail"
    ],
    "deal_securities_for_clients": [
     "retail"
    ],
    "issue_securities": [
     "retail"
    ],
    "market_maker": [
     "retail",
     "unstated"
    ]
   },
   "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": "Status unclear",
  "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/ic-markets-shares/",
  "json": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/v1/brokers/ic-markets-shares.json"
 }
}
