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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.",
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  "slug": "westpac-share-trading",
  "name": "Westpac Share Trading",
  "product": null,
  "website": "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/",
  "category": "active_asx_retail",
  "checked": "2026-10-15",
  "status_note": "Operating. No closure notice was found on Westpac pages; the Sell Only Service is no longer offered.",
  "successor_slug": null,
  "legal_entity": "Westpac Securities Limited",
  "entity_note": "Trades as Westpac Share Trading.",
  "authorised_representative_of": null,
  "authorised_representative_no": null,
  "afsl": "233723",
  "abn": "39087924221",
  "acn": null,
  "holding": "chess",
  "holding_note": "Stock sponsorship is with AUSIEX; holdings sit on a HIN. Issuer-sponsored sales cost $15 on top of brokerage. International shares go through AUSIEX with Saxo Bank A/S as custodian.",
  "asx_coverage": null,
  "asx_coverage_note": null,
  "execution_participant": "Australian Investment Exchange Limited (AUSIEX)",
  "clearing_participant": "Australian Investment Exchange Limited (AUSIEX)",
  "international_shares": true,
  "brokerage": {
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   "gst": "included",
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     "fee": 4.95,
     "percent": null,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    },
    {
     "up_to": 3000,
     "fee": 9.95,
     "percent": null,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    },
    {
     "up_to": 10000,
     "fee": 19.95,
     "percent": null,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    },
    {
     "up_to": 28000,
     "fee": 29.95,
     "percent": null,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    },
    {
     "up_to": null,
     "fee": null,
     "percent": 0.11,
     "min": null,
     "max": null
    }
   ],
   "rule": "Settled via Westpac Cash Investment Account or Online Investment Loan: $4.95 up to $1,000, $9.95 up to $3,000, $19.95 up to $10,000, $29.95 up to $28,000, then 0.11%.",
   "conditions": [
    "Settling to another bank account costs $29.95 or 0.29%.",
    "Issuer-sponsored sales cost $15 on top of brokerage."
   ]
  },
  "account_fee": null,
  "expected": {
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   "10000": 19.95,
   "50000": 55.0
  },
  "quotes": {
   "brokerage": {
    "text": "$4.95 (up to and including $1,000) $9.95 (over $1,000 up to and including $3,000) $19.95 (over $3,000 up to and including $10,000) $29.95 (over $10,000 up to and including $28,000) 0.11% (over $28,000)",
    "url": "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/support/rates-fees/",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "$4.95 (up to and including $1,000) $9.95 (over $1,000 up to and including $3,000) $19.95 (over $3,000 up to and including $10,000) $29.95 (over $10,000 up to and including $28,000) 0.11% (over $28,000)",
     "url": "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/support/rates-fees/#:~:text=%244.95%20%28up%20to%20and%20including,including%20%2428%2C000%29%200.11%25%20%28over%20%2428%2C000%29",
     "document_sha256": "1b769d2d04e250702e8ec6704642497e28c241dce602a99c510ed5341fe5990f",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   },
   "holding": {
    "text": "CHESS sponsored shares are shares registered with a broker such as Westpac Share Trading and are linked to a Holder Identification Number (HIN), which generally starts with an ‘X’.",
    "url": "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/Public/ContactAndSupport/Learn-Support/Faqs.aspx",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "CHESS sponsored shares are shares registered with a broker such as Westpac Share Trading and are linked to a Holder Identification Number (HIN), which generally starts with an ‘X’.",
     "url": "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/Public/ContactAndSupport/Learn-Support/Faqs.aspx#:~:text=CHESS%20sponsored%20shares%20are%20shares,generally%20starts%20with%20an%20%E2%80%98X%E2%80%99.",
     "document_sha256": "8658c8686f818d98725950c65537291e6111788630f7004a80bf7d16d8d8bdba",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   },
   "execution": {
    "text": "AUSIEX is a market participant of the ASX Limited and Cboe Australia Pty Ltd, a clearing participant of ASX Clear Pty Limited and a settlement participant of ASX Settlement Pty Limited. Under this arrangement, your trading, clearing, settlement and stock sponsorship arrangements are directly with AUSIEX.",
    "url": "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/media/34837/securitiesblanket.pdf",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "AUSIEX is a market participant of the ASX Limited and Cboe Australia Pty Ltd, a clearing participant of ASX Clear Pty Limited and a settlement participant of ASX Settlement Pty Limited. Under this arrangement, your trading, clearing, settlement and stock sponsorship arrangements are directly with AUSIEX.",
     "url": "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/media/34837/securitiesblanket.pdf#page=2",
     "page": 2,
     "document_sha256": "b82d1c719a56cea0d876c1833d76d65251a2519c6e67bf84290eb78037dce40b",
     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
    }
   },
   "coverage": {
    "text": "Invest in the companies you know and trust on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).",
    "url": "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/investments/",
    "checked": {
     "status": "found",
     "at": "2026-11-13T00:45:45+00:00"
    },
    "citation": {
     "quote": "Invest in the companies you know and trust on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).",
     "url": "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/investments/#:~:text=Invest%20in%20the%20companies%20you,the%20Australian%20Securities%20Exchange%20%28ASX%29.",
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     "confirmed": "2026-11-13"
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  },
  "sources": [
   "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/support/rates-fees/",
   "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/media/34837/securitiesblanket.pdf",
   "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/",
   "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/Public/Products/NewsAndUpdates.aspx",
   "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/Public/ContactAndSupport/Learn-Support/Faqs.aspx",
   "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/investments/"
  ],
  "documents": [
   {
    "title": "Rates and fees",
    "url": "https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/support/rates-fees/"
   },
   {
    "title": "Financial Services Guide",
    "url": "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/media/34837/securitiesblanket.pdf"
   },
   {
    "title": "News and updates",
    "url": "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/Public/Products/NewsAndUpdates.aspx"
   },
   {
    "title": "FAQs",
    "url": "https://sharetrading.westpac.com.au/Public/ContactAndSupport/Learn-Support/Faqs.aspx"
   }
  ],
  "curation_notes": "Footers disagree on the international custodian: the westpac.com.au footer names Pershing LLC while the current FSG names Saxo Bank A/S. Holding quote re-verified in the rendered HTML of the FAQ page (answer sits in a collapsed accordion). FSG effective 21 August 2026.",
  "licence": {
   "afsl": "233723",
   "name": "WESTPAC SECURITIES LIMITED",
   "abn": "39087924221",
   "acn": null,
   "licensed_since": "2004-02-09",
   "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": "CHESS-sponsored",
  "prices": {
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   "1000": 4.95,
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   "5000": 19.95,
   "10000": 19.95,
   "25000": 29.95,
   "50000": 55.0,
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  "prices_native": null,
  "fx": null,
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  "etf_brokerage": null,
  "etf_prices": null,
  "etf_sell_prices": null,
  "page": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/westpac-share-trading/",
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