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Query ASIC registers in plain English — advisers, licensees, banned persons, liquidators.
Query ASIC registers in plain English — advisers, licensees, banned persons, liquidators.
asic-mcp is a well-structured MCP server for querying Australian Securities and Investments Commission registers via data.gov.au. It has proper input validation, appropriate error handling, and no authentication/credential management risks. Permissions are well-scoped to network HTTP (data.gov.au only), environment variables (cache directory), and filesystem operations (cache files). Minor code quality observations exist but do not materially impact security. Supply chain analysis found 5 known vulnerabilities in dependencies (1 critical, 3 high severity). Package verification found 1 issue.
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Add this to your MCP configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"io-ausdata-asic-mcp": {
"args": [
"asic-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}From the project's GitHub README.
mcp-name: io.ausdata/asic-mcp
MCP server for Australian Securities and Investments Commission registers. Plain-English access to the Financial Advisers Register, AFS Licensees, AFS Authorised Representatives, Credit Licensees, Banned & Disqualified Persons and Organisations, and Registered Liquidators — every one updated weekly by ASIC and served via data.gov.au.
Hosted access? For cross-source queries, webhooks, an always-on REST API, and a uniform response envelope across all 9 sources, see ausdata.io — free tier available (500 calls/mo, no card).
"Is Jane Smith a registered financial adviser?"
"Find every AFS licensee in NSW with 'Westpac' in the name."
"List all banned persons added since 2024-01-01."
"Who's the registered liquidator for KordaMentha?"
"Which credit licensees were suspended last year?"
Sister to abs-mcp (Australian Bureau of Statistics), rba-mcp (Reserve Bank of Australia), ato-mcp (Australian Taxation Office), apra-mcp (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority), aihw-mcp (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare), and au-weather-mcp (Australian weather). All seven together cover the macro / regulator / health / tax / climate layer of Australian official data.
# Run on demand via uvx (recommended)
uvx --upgrade asic-mcp
# Or install permanently
pip install asic-mcp
Add to claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"asic": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["--upgrade", "asic-mcp"] }
}
}
Why
--upgrade?uvx asic-mcp(without the flag) uses whatever wheel is cached and never adopts new PyPI releases on its own.--upgrademakes uvx check PyPI on each launch and pull a newer release if one exists. To verify which version is currently serving you, look at theserver_versionfield on anyDataResponse.
claude mcp add asic --command uvx --args -- --upgrade asic-mcp
Beyond the wheel-level --upgrade, the server has a second auto-update path inside the data layer: every register snapshot on data.gov.au is reissued each week (some monthly) at a stable resource UUID. asic-mcp resolves that UUID via data.gov.au's CKAN API at fetch time and uses the freshest match. Hard-coded YAML URLs are the safe fallback if CKAN discovery fails. You do not need to wait for a new wheel release to get new weekly data — the 24-hour cache TTL means a fresh snapshot lands within a day. Force-refresh by deleting ~/.asic-mcp/cache.db.
Five tools, all plain-English in, structured out:
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
search_datasets | Fuzzy-search the curated catalogue by keyword |
describe_dataset | List a dataset's filterable dimensions and source URL |
get_data | Query with filters, period range, output format |
latest | Most recent observation(s) for a dataset (shortcut) |
list_curated | Enumerate the curated dataset IDs |
Every response is the same shape — dataset_id, dataset_name, query, period, unit, row_count, records, source_url, attribution, server_version, stale — across every curated dataset.
| ID | What it is | Cadence | Source slug |
|---|---|---|---|
ASIC_FINANCIAL_ADVISERS | Every individual on the Financial Advisers Register (~21,000 records, 76 columns) | Weekly | asic-financial-adviser |
ASIC_AFS_LICENSEE | Every Australian Financial Services Licensee (~6,500 entities) | Weekly | asic-afs-licensee |
ASIC_AFS_AUTH_REP | Every AFS Authorised Representative — appointees under each AFSL | Weekly | asic-afs-authorised-representative |
ASIC_CREDIT_LICENSEE | Every Australian Credit Licensee (NCCP-regulated lenders, brokers, BNPL providers) | Weekly | asic-credit-licensee |
ASIC_BANNED_PERSONS | Persons banned/disqualified from financial services, credit, or managing corporations | Weekly | asic-banned-disqualified-per |
ASIC_BANNED_ORGS | Organisations banned/disqualified — companion register to BANNED_PERSONS | Weekly | asic-banned-disqualified-org |
ASIC_LIQUIDATOR | Every Registered Liquidator and Official Liquidator (~700 insolvency practitioners) | Weekly | asic-liquidator |
Adding a new dataset is a single YAML drop into src/asic_mcp/data/curated/ — see CONTRIBUTING.md. v0.2 roadmap below adds enforcement statistics, short-position reports, and a streaming-lookup tool for the 373 MB Company Register.
Cross-source compatibility. The
statefilter on every register accepts canonical state codes ("NSW"), full names ("New South Wales"), case-insensitive variants ("nsw"), ISO 3166-2 ("AU-NSW"), and 4-digit postcodes ("2000"→ NSW). Powered byaus-identity— the same input format works across abs-mcp, ato-mcp, apra-mcp, aihw-mcp, and asic-mcp.
Compliance check: "Confirm whether AFSL 234945 is a current AFS licensee, who the legal name is, and what financial services it's authorised to deal in."
Consumer protection: "Has anyone with the surname 'Smith' been banned by ASIC in the last 5 years? Show the ban type, dates, and the public comment."
Insolvency: "List every Registered Liquidator practising under KordaMentha in NSW and Victoria."
Adviser lookup: "Find financial adviser number 000221137 — current/ceased, licensee, and qualifications."
Credit broker due diligence: "For Australian Credit Licence 219612, give me the licensee name, status, EDR scheme membership, and a summary of the authorisations text."
Each prompt resolves to one get_data (or latest) call. The response includes the source URL and CC-BY 3.0 AU attribution so the agent can cite it back.
Same shape as the sister packages — client → cache → parsing → shaping → server:
client.py wraps httpx with a SQLite-backed disk cache and an in-flight dedup so a burst of latest() calls fans into one HTTP request. Sends a polite User-Agent — data.gov.au's CDN blocks the default httpx UA.parsing.py reads CSV via pandas, with delimiter auto-sniffing because ASIC labels every file ".csv" but ships some as tab-separated (Financial Advisers, AFS Auth Rep, Banned Orgs) and some as comma-separated (AFS Licensee, Credit Licensee, Banned Persons, Liquidator).curated.py loads dataset specs from data/curated/*.yaml — each one declares its dimensions, dimension-value enums, source/download URLs, and CKAN discovery hints.discovery.py resolves the freshest CKAN resource URL at query time; falls back to the YAML default on any failure.shaping.py transforms the parsed DataFrame into DataResponse (records / series / csv). For register data (no measure columns) it emits one Observation per row with all dimensions populated.server.py is the FastMCP entrypoint — five tools, full input validation with helpful "Try X" hints on error.Cache lives under ~/.asic-mcp/cache.db. ASIC registers refresh weekly, so the byte cache TTL is 24 hours and the CKAN catalogue cache is 1 hour.
Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU). Data accessed via data.gov.au. © Commonwealth of Australia. The MCP server is MIT-licensed; the underlying register data carries the CC-BY 3.0 AU licence, which is echoed verbatim in every response's attribution field.
The portfolio is designed to compose: an agent can ask for "current financial adviser in postcode 2000, paired with the AFS licensee's parent firm and the regulator's banning history" and one shot fans out across two or three MCPs.
ASIC_REGISTERED_AUDITOR, ASIC_CREDIT_REPRESENTATIVE, ASIC_SMSF_AUDITOR. Streaming-lookup tool for the 373 MB Company Register (look up by ACN/ABN instead of bulk-loading).CHANGELOG tracks every release.
git clone https://github.com/Bigred97/asic-mcp.git
cd asic-mcp
uv sync --extra dev
uv run pytest # ~229 unit tests
uv run pytest -m live # ~9 live tests against data.gov.au
Issues, ideas, and contributions welcome: github.com/Bigred97/asic-mcp/issues.
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