Australian financial services (AFS) licensees must use ASIC’s AFS licensee portal (eLicensing system) to lodge product disclosure statement (PDS) notifications and register managed investment schemes. Many lodgements that were previously made through the AFS licensee portal are now done through the ASIC Regulatory Portal.
Changes for AFS licensees
AFS licensees should note:
All AFS licence transactions must now be submitted on the ASIC Regulatory Portal. See our Regulatory Portal access page.
Any application or lodgement started but not submitted in the AFS licensee portal before 13 June 2025 must be restarted and submitted in the Regulatory Portal.
AFS licensees must still use the AFS licensee portal to lodge applications to register managed investment schemes and PDS in-use notices.
Credit licence applications and applications relating to registered company auditors must be made using the AFS licensee portal.
Before signing up, read ASIC’s Electronic Lodgement Protocol. The protocol includes ASIC’s requirements for storing signed documents that you lodge online.
If you agree to the protocol select ‘Yes’. If you do not agree and select ‘No’ you will not be able to sign up.
For the question ‘On what basis are you applying?’, select ‘as an Australian Financial Services licensee’ from the list of options.
Select the ‘Next’ button.
Enter your AFS licence number and access
Enter your AFS licence number.
Select the type of documents you are lodging and the access level required. This option allows you to only enter data or to enter data and submit documents.
Select the ‘Next’ button.
Enter username, password and security question and answer
Make your username something easy to remember.
Your password must:
be 16 to 50 characters long
include at least one lowercase letter (a–z), one capital letter (A–Z) and one number (0–9).
For your security question, choose something you will remember the answer to. If you lose your password and forget the answer to your security question, you’ll need to create a new account.
Enter all details and select the ‘Next’ button. A popup box will appear. Enter your username and password again, then select the ‘Next’ button.
Enter contact email address and phone number
Once you create an online account, ASIC will send correspondence about your licence to an online inbox. When you have a new inbox message, we’ll send an email to the address you enter here, so make it an address you check often.
Enter your email address and phone number, then select the ‘Next’ button.
Print, sign and send
You will need to print and sign a participation agreement and email it to agent.registration@asic.gov.au. Once you have submitted the agreement, select ‘Yes’ and then ‘Next’.
Declare and submit
Fill in the declaration details, then select the ‘Submit’ button.
You’ll see a screen confirming your request has been submitted.
Activate your online access account
ASIC will contact you within 2 business days to confirm your account has been activated.
What you can do using the AFS licensee portal
You can do the following tasks on the AFS licensee portal. Select a heading to see user guides and links for each task.
