On 17 June 2026, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced that it is collecting and publishing website addresses of Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensees on its Professional Registers Search (PRS), with more than 6,500 AFS licensees invited to provide their website details since launching in early May. ASIC is taking this action so that Australians may more easily distinguish a genuine financial services website from a scam or imposter website. ASIC is urging every AFS licensee to participate and aims to have most AFS licensee website addresses added to the PRS within the coming months.
ASIC has also launched new online resources to help businesses avoid and respond to scams. These resources bring together ASIC’s scam alerts and warnings, and information about ASIC’s scam disruption, reviews and enforcement work.