Appoint or update an authorised representative or financial adviser
As an Australian financial services (AFS) licensee or authorised representative, you must notify ASIC when you appoint an authorised representative or a financial adviser (also known as a relevant provider). You must also notify ASIC if their details change. You can do this using ASIC Connect.
Before signing up for ASIC Connect, read ASIC’s Electronic Lodgement Protocol. The protocol includes ASIC’s requirements for storing signed documents that you lodge online.
Enter your details
Go to the sign-up page and enter the requested details.
Make your username something easy to remember.
Your password must:
be at least 9 characters long
include at least one lowercase letter (a–z), one capital letter (A–Z) and one number (0–9)
not include 3 or more letters in a row from your username, first name or last name.
Agree to the Electronic Lodgement Protocol and create account
If you agree to the protocol select ‘Yes’. If you do not agree and select ‘No’ you will not be able to sign up.
Then select the ‘Create account’ button.
Activate account
You should receive an activation email within 15 minutes. Select the link in the email or copy and paste it into a web browser.
User guide
For more detailed information and screenshots, see our user guide:
Before you can appoint a financial adviser, you need to link an AFS licence to your ASIC Connect account. You can also appoint provisional financial advisers and time-share advisers (also known as limited-service time-sharing advisers).
You do not need to link a financial adviser to your AFS licence before appointing them.
When the details of an authorised representative or a financial adviser change, you must update them using the ‘maintain’ transaction in the portal. You can update:
authorisations (for example, whether they can sub-authorise)
qualifications
address
name
ABN.
You can also ask us to correct various errors on the register.
