Australian Financial Advisers Register Search (ASIC FAR Lookup)

Search the official ASIC Financial Advisers Register in bulk — 88,000+ adviser records covering every person authorised to give personal financial advice to retail clients in Australia. Search by adviser name, adviser number, AFS licence number or ABN, filter to current advisers by state, and get clean, structured JSON. No API key, no login, no fragile page scraping: this actor reads the government open-data feed on data.gov.au directly.

Give it a list of searches and it paginates the register for each one — or give it no searches at all and sweep the whole register with filters (e.g. every current adviser in NSW), pulling thousands of records in a single run.

What you can do with it

• Adviser verification (compliance / AML-KYC) — confirm a person is a currently authorised financial adviser, which AFSL they operate under, and whether their registration has ceased.
• Lead lists of advisers and licensees — every current adviser in a state, with suburb/postcode, licensee (AFSL), qualifications and memberships.
• Recruitment & market mapping — find advisers by qualification, designation (CFP, CA, CPA) or professional body membership; map who controls which licence.
• Licensee due diligence — list all advisers appointed under a given AFS licence number or licensee ABN, past and present.
• Advice-capability screening — each row decodes what the adviser can advise on: superannuation, SMSFs, securities, derivatives, life products, margin lending and more, plus whether they can provide tax (financial) advice.

Data fields you get

Field	Description
adviserName	The adviser's full name as registered
adviserNumber	The adviser's unique ASIC register number
role / subType	Register role (e.g. Financial Adviser, Time-share Adviser)
roleStatus	Current (authorised now) or Ceased
overallRegistrationStatus	Registered / Not Registered under the adviser-registration requirement
firstProvidedAdvice	Year the adviser first provided advice
startDate / endDate	When this authorisation started / ended (DD/MM/YYYY)
licenceName / licenceNumber / licenceAbn	The AFS licensee the adviser operates under
licenceControlledBy	Who controls the licensee, when recorded
appointedBy / appointedByNumber / appointedByAbn	The authorised representative that appointed the adviser
suburb / state / postcode / country	The adviser's registered business address locality
canProvideTaxAdvice	true if registered to provide tax (financial) advice services
adviceAreas	Plain-language list of what they may advise on (e.g. Superannuation, Securities, Self-managed superannuation funds)
adviceAreaCodes	The raw register flag codes behind adviceAreas
qualifications	List of qualifications and training on record
memberships	Professional body memberships (e.g. CA ANZ, FAAA)
cpdFailureYear	Year of any recorded CPD (continuing professional development) failure
furtherRestrictions	Any further restrictions noted on the register
licenceAbnLookupUrl	Deep link to the official ABN Lookup page for the licensee
matchType	name, number, abn or sweep — how this row was matched
query	The input search that produced this row

Input

queries is a list. A number up to 9 digits is treated as an adviser number or AFS licence number (zero-padded automatically), an 11-digit number as an ABN. Anything else runs a full-text search (adviser names, licensee names, suburbs, qualifications). Leave queries empty to sweep the whole register using only the filters.

{
    "queries": ["SMITH", "000221137", "25005620824"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 100,
    "statusFilter": "Current",
    "stateFilter": "NSW"
}

• queries — names, adviser/licence numbers and/or ABNs. Each is searched separately. Empty = filtered sweep of the full register.
• maxResultsPerQuery — cap on rows per search (1–10000). The actor paginates automatically.
• statusFilter — all, Current (active advisers only), or Ceased only.
• stateFilter — all or one of NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT.

Output sample

Each result is one row in the dataset:

{
    "query": "SMITH",
    "matchType": "name",
    "adviserName": "FRANK MATTHEW SMITH",
    "adviserNumber": "000299549",
    "role": "Financial Adviser",
    "subType": "Financial Adviser",
    "roleStatus": "Current",
    "firstProvidedAdvice": "1995",
    "startDate": "15/03/2006",
    "endDate": null,
    "licenceName": "SMITH COFFEY PTY LTD",
    "licenceNumber": "000237972",
    "overallRegistrationStatus": "Registered",
    "suburb": "Subiaco",
    "state": "WA",
    "postcode": "6008",
    "country": "Australia",
    "canProvideTaxAdvice": true,
    "adviceAreas": ["Life products - investment life insurance", "Life products - life risk insurance", "Superannuation", "Securities"],
    "qualifications": ["1993 - Bachelor of Commerce - Degree - University of Western Australia"],
    "memberships": ["Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ)"],
    "cpdFailureYear": null,
    "licenceAbnLookupUrl": null
}

Pricing

Pay per result — you are billed only for each adviser record returned. Searches that return no matches are not charged.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The ASIC Financial Advisers Dataset published as open data on data.gov.au (the Australian Government open-data portal), licensed Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia. ASIC refreshes it regularly; it is the same data behind the Moneysmart Financial Advisers Register.

Does it include ceased advisers? Yes — the register keeps historical records. Use statusFilter: "Current" to get only advisers authorised today.

Can I get all advisers under one licensee? Yes — search the AFS licence number (e.g. 237972) or the licensee's 11-digit ABN and you get every adviser record linked to it.

Do I need an API key or login? No. This source is fully public.

Is this the company register? No — this is the people register (financial advisers). For companies and business names, see the companion actors Australian Company Register Search and Australian Business Register Search.