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ACY Securities is a forex and CFD brand run from Sydney. Australian residents deal with ACY Securities Pty Ltd, licensed by ASIC, and other clients may be signed up by ACY Capital LLC, an unlicensed company in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The website also names ACY Securities SA Pty Ltd as an FSCA-authorised company in South Africa. ACY’s group website names Jimmy Ye and Winson Cao as co-founders and directors of the ACY Group of companies.
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Verified licences
Regulator
Licence
Legal entity
Register status
Source
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
Each licence was matched on the regulator’s own register on the date shown. Unverified claims are listed under Regulation and legal entities.
Assessment summary
ACY’s Australian licence matches ASIC’s records; we could not check the South African one. Clients outside Australia may be signed up by ACY Capital LLC in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which holds no licence, although ACY’s documents and help centre present its company registration as a licence and its international pages describe ASIC protections. Australian clients get ASIC’s safeguards: client money held on trust at Commonwealth Bank, negative balance protection, leverage limits and complaints to AFCA. Clients of the St Vincent company do not: one clause of their agreement lets client money be used as the company’s working capital and for hedging while another rules this out, they must repay negative balances, no outside dispute body is named and leverage goes up to 1:5000. No compensation scheme applies. ACY does not name its owners or publish financial statements. In 2017 the Australian company, then Synergy Financial Markets, paid a $10,800 ASIC infringement notice over misleading website claims. Japan’s and Ukraine’s regulators have warned against ACY; French, Spanish and Malaysian alerts have since been removed.
The footer and documents give the Australian company’s ABN and registered address, the St Vincent company’s number and Kingstown address and the South African company’s registration number and address. The Australian details match ASIC’s data and ABN Lookup, and the St Vincent number matches the FSA’s register.
The help centre says withdrawals requested before 21:00 AEST on a business day are processed the same day, that five withdrawals a month are free and later ones cost $25, and sets out conditions such as a 150% margin level; the funding page lists the payment methods.
The ACY Group website names Jimmy Ye and Winson Cao as co-founders and directors, and ACY’s history page names Andrew Taylor as Managing Director since 2022. ASIC’s company records that would show the directors are paid extracts, so we could not match the names.
The client agreement is available before sign-up 4571327
The Australian PDS, FSG and account terms and the St Vincent KIS and client agreement can be downloaded from the legal page without an account.
Key concerns
ASIC infringement notice: ACY’s Australian company, then Synergy Financial Markets, paid $10,800 over misleading website claims 101218
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 2.5 points (moderate severity, 9.4 years before the review, counted at a quarter of its weight).
On the Ukrainian securities regulator’s list of doubtful investment projects 2034
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 2 points (low severity, 2.4 years before the review).
Warned by Japan’s Financial Services Agency for soliciting derivatives business without registration 1933
Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 3.7 years before the review, counted at half weight).
Regulatory claims on the website are accurate 123567
Not met The ASIC licence ACY states matches the register, but the St Vincent KIS says ACY Capital exercises its discretions “as the holder of a FSA license”, the help centre lists its St Vincent incorporation among ACY’s “regulated license”, and the international legal page tells clients signed up by that company that ACY is an ASIC-licensed broker and that their funds are segregated under ASIC’s client money requirements. The St Vincent FSA’s register lists the company only as an incorporated LLC. We could not confirm the FSCA licence.
Not met No investor compensation scheme covers clients of the Australian or St Vincent companies. The Australian FSG offers only professional indemnity insurance as its compensation arrangement, which covers claims against the company.
Breakdown by dimension
Each dimension is scored from its criteria, then weighted. Dimensions without enough evidence are left out and the remaining weights are rescaled. Open a dimension to see every criterion, our rationale and the sources.
Regulatory status and licence verification 26% of score 64 out of 100
Whether the firm’s licences exist, are current and cover what it offers.
Partly met
Client-facing entities appear on the regulator’s register 123
We matched ACY Securities Pty Ltd in ASIC’s licensee data. ACY Capital LLC, which signs up clients outside Australia, appears on the St Vincent FSA’s register only as an incorporated company, with no licence, and we could not check the South African company’s FSCA licence.
ASIC authorises ACY Securities Pty Ltd to issue and make a market in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts for retail clients. ACY Capital LLC issues CFDs to international clients as principal without any licence, and we could not see the South African company’s permissions on the FSCA’s register.
Not met
Regulatory claims on the website are accurate 123567
The ASIC licence ACY states matches the register, but the St Vincent KIS says ACY Capital exercises its discretions “as the holder of a FSA license”, the help centre lists its St Vincent incorporation among ACY’s “regulated license”, and the international legal page tells clients signed up by that company that ACY is an ASIC-licensed broker and that their funds are segregated under ASIC’s client money requirements. The St Vincent FSA’s register lists the company only as an incorporated LLC. We could not confirm the FSCA licence.
Partly met
Clients can tell which regulated entity serves them 145689
The regulations page says Australian residents are signed up with ACY Securities Pty Ltd and that non-Australians may be signed up with ACY Capital LLC, and the international documents name that company. But the same company is also called ACY Capital Australia LLC in the help centre and in the notice for Jordanian clients, whose introducing broker the Jordan Securities Commission lists as licensed, and the international pages describe ACY as an ASIC-licensed broker without saying that ASIC does not cover the St Vincent company.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Corporate transparency and ownership 13% of score 73 out of 100
Whether you can find out who owns and runs the firm.
The footer and documents give the Australian company’s ABN and registered address, the St Vincent company’s number and Kingstown address and the South African company’s registration number and address. The Australian details match ASIC’s data and ABN Lookup, and the St Vincent number matches the FSA’s register.
The ACY Group website names Jimmy Ye and Winson Cao as co-founders and directors, but we found no statement or free public record that says who owns the ACY companies.
ACY says ACY Securities is a trading name of the Australian and St Vincent companies, and the group website describes the ACY Group’s businesses and its two Australian licences, but neither explains how the companies, including the South African one, are owned or related.
The ACY Group website names Jimmy Ye and Winson Cao as co-founders and directors, and ACY’s history page names Andrew Taylor as Managing Director since 2022. ASIC’s company records that would show the directors are paid extracts, so we could not match the names.
The Australian PDS holds client money on trust under ASIC’s client money rules and does not use retail client money for hedging or as working capital. The St Vincent agreement contradicts itself: clause 3.6 lets the company use client money as working capital, for its own obligations and for margining and hedging, while clause 23 says retail client money is segregated and not used for those purposes.
Partly met
Retail clients have negative balance protection 571314
Australian retail clients have negative balance protection under the PDS. Clients of the St Vincent company must repay negative balances, which the KIS treats as debts to be collected, and the help centre says their rebalance requests are subject to approval.
No investor compensation scheme covers clients of the Australian or St Vincent companies. The Australian FSG offers only professional indemnity insurance as its compensation arrangement, which covers claims against the company.
The help centre says withdrawals requested before 21:00 AEST on a business day are processed the same day, that five withdrawals a month are free and later ones cost $25, and sets out conditions such as a 150% margin level; the funding page lists the payment methods.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Enforcement and substantiated adverse findings 13% of score 95 out of 100
Regulator warnings, enforcement actions and final legal findings on record.
Starts at 100 and loses points for each substantiated adverse finding by severity and age. Allegations, complaints and clone
warnings never count. Total deducted: 5.5 points.
Met
Warning lists and enforcement records have been searched 18192021222324
We searched ASIC, CySEC, FCA, CVM, CNMV, AMF and KNF records, the Indian, Malaysian, Japanese and Ukrainian lists and the FSCA’s 2025 to 2026 actions report, and ran web searches. We found ASIC’s 2017 infringement notice, the Japanese and Ukrainian warnings and three alerts that have since been removed.
Enforcement action
ASIC infringement notice: ACY’s Australian company, then Synergy Financial Markets, paid $10,800 over misleading website claims 101218
8 Jun 2017. Reduced the enforcement dimension by 2.5 points (moderate severity, 9.4 years before the review, counted at a quarter of its weight).
Regulator warning
Warned by Japan’s Financial Services Agency for soliciting derivatives business without registration 1933
27 Feb 2023. Reduced the enforcement dimension by 1 points (low severity, 3.7 years before the review, counted at half weight).
Regulator warning
On the Ukrainian securities regulator’s list of doubtful investment projects 2034
15 May 2024. Reduced the enforcement dimension by 2 points (low severity, 2.4 years before the review).
Regulator warning
acy.com on the French AMF and ACPR Forex blacklist from 2023 until March 2026 21
29 Sept 2023. Not counted: the matter is not concluded, or was removed or overturned.
Regulator warning
Spanish CNMV warning reported in February 2024, no longer on its list 2235
5 Feb 2024. Not counted: the matter is not concluded, or was removed or overturned.
Regulator warning
Securities Commission Malaysia alert reported in 2022, no longer on the list 2336
2 Mar 2022. Not counted: the matter is not concluded, or was removed or overturned.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Complaint handling and documented resolutions 8% of score 75 out of 100
How the firm handles complaints, and what independent records show.
The Australian complaints procedure gives contact details and a 30-day response time. For the St Vincent company the KIS says a copy of the internal procedure can be obtained on request and gives no address or time frame.
Partly met
Independent dispute resolution is available 781325
Australian clients can take unresolved complaints to AFCA. The St Vincent documents and the international regulations page say only that complaints can be escalated to “an external body”, without naming one.
Not determined
Independent complaint outcomes show no adverse pattern 24
ACY has no UK company, so there are no Financial Ombudsman Service decisions, and we did not find published decisions of other dispute bodies.
We found no complaint statistics published by ACY. AFCA publishes complaint figures for its members, but its data site refuses automated requests, so we could not check the Australian company.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Trading terms and operational transparency 8% of score 84 out of 100
Whether costs, execution and risks are disclosed before you sign up.
Partly met
Costs are disclosed before account opening 713161726
Spreads, commissions and deposit fees are published, and the help centre gives the withdrawal fee. Swap rates are shown only in the trading platform, and the St Vincent KIS reserves an additional fee or spread on currency conversion without saying how much.
ACY publishes no order execution policy. The PDS and KIS say the companies deal as principal and market maker, hedge with counterparties they do not name and face a conflict of interest, while ACY’s history page describes an “ECN trading model”.
Met
The client agreement is available before sign-up 4571327
The Australian PDS, FSG and account terms and the St Vincent KIS and client agreement can be downloaded from the legal page without an account.
Partly met
Leverage and margin terms are disclosed 5713262829
Australian clients get ASIC’s limits (30:1 on major currencies) and a 50% close-out. For international clients the account page gives leverage of up to 1:5000 and also up to 500:1, the help centre 500:1, and the close-out level is 50% in the KIS but 30% on the legal page and in the help centre.
Every page carries a risk warning that trading carries significant risk, and the documents warn that losses can exceed deposits; neither ASIC nor St Vincent requires the share of losing accounts.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Public disclosures and communication 4% of score 60 out of 100
Whether public claims hold up and the firm communicates openly.
Not met
Marketing claims are accurate and attributable 4567812153031
ACY calls itself a multi-regulated broker and presents the St Vincent company’s incorporation as a licence, tells international clients their money is segregated under ASIC’s rules and that both companies hold professional indemnity cover in compliance with ASIC’s guide, although the Australian FSG’s cover applies to activities under its licence, and describes an ECN model while its agreement calls it a market maker.
Met
An address and working contact channels are published 12432
ACY publishes office addresses in Chatswood and Melbourne, phone numbers, an email and live chat; the Chatswood address matches ASIC’s data, and the St Vincent agreement gives that company’s address for notices.
Documents are dated and versioned, and both the Australian and the St Vincent terms give five days’ written notice of changes.
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
On-site office verification 5% of score 0 out of 100
What our visit confirmed in person: a real, staffed office of the assessed entity, not a ghost address.
We have not checked this firm’s office in person, so this dimension scores zero. We check offices through our on-site verification programme.
Not met
Real office at the stated address, not a ghost address
Not met
Office of the assessed entity
Not met
Staffed and operating
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
On-site assessment and platform testing 10% of score Not assessed: no on-site assessment yet
What our on-site checks and 30-day platform testing found.
We have not completed an on-site assessment of this firm, so this dimension does not count and its weight is shared among the others.
Not determined
Company identity
Not determined
Regulatory claims
Not determined
Office visit
Not determined
Account opening
Not determined
Platform usability
Not determined
Costs and disclosures
Not determined
Customer support
Not determined
Deposits and withdrawals
Not determined
Trading functions
Not determined
Complaints process
Criteria and their weighting are explained in the methodology.
Regulation and legal entities
A brand can trade through several companies, each licensed in a different place with different protections. Check which entity your
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ACY Securities Pty Ltd
Client-facing entity · Incorporated in Australia · Company number ABN 80 150 565 781 · Australian residents, who are all signed up with this company
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) · Reference AFSL 4038632
General advice, dealing in and issuing derivatives and foreign exchange contracts, and making a market in them, for retail and wholesale clients
Client-facing entity · Incorporated in St. Vincent & Grenadines · Company number 2610 LLC 2022 · Clients outside Australia, who may be signed up with this company; not licensed (registered with the St Vincent FSA as a limited liability company only)
No licence recorded for this entity.
ACY Securities SA Pty Ltd
Affiliate · Incorporated in South Africa · Company number 2009/008731/07 · Named in the website footer as an FSCA-authorised financial services provider; ACY’s documents do not say which clients it serves
Financial services under section 8 of the FAIS Act, as stated by ACY
Stated by ACY. The FSCA’s FSP search did not respond to our request on 26 October 2026.
Claimed by the firm, not yet verified
ACY Capital Pty Ltd
Affiliate · Incorporated in Australia · Company number ABN 49 167 260 504 · ACY Group company; the group website cites its licence next to ACY Securities’ licence, but acy.com does not name it
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) · Reference AFSL 4747382
General advice on and arranging deals in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts for retail and wholesale clients
Licence start date 28 July 2015; licensee address in Chatswood NSW.
Other · Incorporated in Vanuatu · Vanuatu company that Japan’s FSA names as providing the ACY SECURITIES service from ACY’s Australian office addresses; not named on acy.com
No licence recorded for this entity.
Dated findings
Warnings, enforcement actions, legal findings, allegations and complaint records are labelled separately. What each label means.
Regulator warningActive
On the Ukrainian securities regulator’s list of doubtful investment projects 2034
· National Securities and Stock Market Commission (Ukraine) · Ukraine · Last checked 26 Oct 2026
On 15 May 2024 Ukraine’s National Securities and Stock Market Commission added “ACY Securities”, with the websites acy.com/ru/ and acyhk.com/ru/, to its list of unreliable investment projects, warning investors about persons whose activity in Ukraine is not regulated. The entry was still on the list when we checked on 26 October 2026.
Regulator warningRemoved by the regulator
Spanish CNMV warning reported in February 2024, no longer on its list 2235
· Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores · Spain · Last checked 26 Oct 2026
Trade press reported that on 5 February 2024 Spain’s CNMV added ACY Securities and its website to its warnings about firms not authorised to provide investment services in Spain. The CNMV’s search engine showed no warning about ACY on 26 October 2026, while the other warnings issued that day are still listed, so we record it as removed. It rests on a press report and does not count in the score.
Regulator warningRemoved by the regulator
acy.com on the French AMF and ACPR Forex blacklist from 2023 until March 2026 21
· Autorité des marchés financiers and Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution · France · Last checked 26 Oct 2026
France’s AMF and ACPR listed acy.com among the websites offering Forex investments in France without authorisation identified in the third quarter of 2023, announced on 29 September 2023. The AMF now notes that acy.com was removed from the Forex blacklist on 26 March 2026. A removed entry does not count in the score.
Regulator warningActive
Warned by Japan’s Financial Services Agency for soliciting derivatives business without registration 1933
· Financial Services Agency (Japan) · Japan · Last checked 26 Oct 2026
On 27 February 2023 Japan’s Financial Services Agency warned ACY Capital Australia Limited, of Port Vila, Vanuatu, for soliciting over-the-counter derivatives trading over the internet without registration in Japan, under the service name “ACY SECURITIES”. The FSA’s list also gives ACY’s Chatswood and Melbourne offices as the company’s addresses. The entry was still on the list updated on 23 October 2026. The company is not on the Vanuatu regulator’s current list of licensed financial dealers, and ACY’s website no longer names it.
Regulator warningRemoved by the regulator
Securities Commission Malaysia alert reported in 2022, no longer on the list 2336
· Securities Commission Malaysia · Malaysia · Last checked 26 Oct 2026
A trade site reported on 2 March 2022 that the Securities Commission Malaysia had added ACY Securities to its Investor Alert List for dealing in securities without a licence. The SC’s list had no entry for ACY when we checked on 26 October 2026, and we did not find the SC’s own announcement, so we record it as removed. It does not count in the score.
Enforcement actionConcluded
ASIC infringement notice: ACY’s Australian company, then Synergy Financial Markets, paid $10,800 over misleading website claims 101218
· Australian Securities and Investments Commission · Australia · Last checked 26 Oct 2026
On 8 June 2017 ASIC announced that Synergy Financial Markets Pty Ltd, the company now named ACY Securities Pty Ltd, had paid a $10,800 penalty under an infringement notice for false or misleading statements on its website. It told investors in its managed discretionary accounts that they would only pay Synergy “when your account profits”, although it charged brokerage fees and commissions, and on one account a 2% annual management fee, whatever the result. Paying an infringement notice is not an admission of a contravention. The conduct predates ACY’s acquisition of the company in 2018, according to ACY.
Company response
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ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
The page data holds an Australian and an international version of the footer. Both name ACY Securities Pty Ltd (ABN 80 150 565 781, AFSL 403863, ACY Tower, Level 18, 799 Pacific Hwy, Chatswood NSW 2067), and the international version also names ACY Capital LLC, incorporated in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (company number 2610 LLC 2022, Suite 305, Griffith Corporate Centre, Beachmont, Kingstown), and says the KIS and terms are available on request or registration. Both name ACY Securities SA Pty Ltd (registration 2009/008731/07, 4 Stan Road, Sandton) as regulated by the FSCA under number 51008, and say ACY Securities is a brand name of ACY Securities Pty Ltd and ACY Capital LLC. A notice for Jordanian clients says Al Bilad Securities and Investment Company, licensed by the Jordan Securities Commission, acts as introducing broker for “ACY Capital Australia LLC (Company Number: 2610 LLC 2022)”. Each footer carries a risk warning that clients do not own the underlying assets and that trading carries significant risk.
Australian Securities and Investments CommissionRegulator recordChecked 26 Oct 2026Australia
Lists AFSL 403863 held by ACY Securities Pty Ltd (ABN 80150565781), Chatswood NSW 2067, from 11 July 2011, authorising general advice and dealing in derivatives, foreign exchange contracts, securities and managed investment schemes, issuing derivatives and foreign exchange contracts and making a market in them, for retail and wholesale clients. Also lists AFSL 474738 held by ACY Capital Pty Ltd (ABN 49167260504), Chatswood, from 28 July 2015, authorising general advice on and arranging deals in derivatives and foreign exchange contracts for retail and wholesale clients.
Financial Services Authority, St Vincent and the GrenadinesRegulator recordChecked 26 Oct 2026St. Vincent & Grenadines
Lists “ACY Capital LLC”, registration number 2610, a limited liability company, active, incorporated on 5 October 2022, with Euro-Caribbean Trustees Ltd as registered agent. The register is a list of incorporated companies; it shows no licence.
ACY Capital LLCCompany documentPublished 1 Feb 2024Checked 26 Oct 2026St. Vincent & Grenadines
Issued by ACY Capital LLC (2610 LLC 2022), which deals as principal and market maker and may hedge with hedging counterparties. Clause 3.6 says client money in its trust account is not kept separate from other clients’ money and may be used as ACY Capital’s working capital, to meet its own obligations and for margining and hedging, and that amounts withdrawn belong to ACY Capital; clause 23 says the money is segregated from ACY Capital’s own funds and that retail client money is not used for those purposes. Disputes go to an internal process described in the KIS. Amendments take effect on five days’ written notice. Governed by St Vincent law, with the courts of New South Wales having jurisdiction. Notices go to the Kingstown address and support@acy.com. One clause still refers to requests from the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Links the Australian PDS, FSG, account terms, TMD, privacy policy and complaints policy, and ACY Capital LLC’s key information statement, client terms and privacy policy, all downloadable without an account. The international version of its important information says “ACY Securities is an Australian licensed regulated financial derivatives broker (ASIC: AFSL 403863)”, that all customer funds are segregated “according to ASIC Client Money requirement”, that positions are closed when the margin level falls below 30% (50% in the Australian version), that losses may exceed the account’s value and ACY may act to recover a negative balance, and that ACY Capital LLC is not regulated in the EEA, the UK or Canada and serves residents there only on a reverse solicitation basis.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Updated 29 June 2026. Says “ACY Securities holds different regulated license as follow”, listing ACY Securities Pty Ltd’s ASIC licence and “ACY Capital Australia LLC Incorporated in St Vincent and the Grenadines, with Company number: 2610 LLC 2022”.
ACY Capital LLCCompany documentPublished 1 Apr 2026Checked 26 Oct 2026St. Vincent & Grenadines
Says the KIS has not been lodged with the St Vincent FSA and that, in exercising its discretions, ACY Capital will comply with its obligations “as the holder of a FSA license”. Losses are not limited to the money paid and may be unlimited; clients must repay negative balances, which are treated as debts and pursued by debt collection. Margin call at 100% of the requirement and close-out at 50%. Prices include a spread in ACY Capital’s favour, swaps are shown in the platform, currency conversion may carry an additional fee or spread, and ACY charges no deposit fees. Complaints are handled internally and can be escalated to “an external body”, which is not named; the address for complaints is left blank after “Compliance Team”.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Says ACY Securities is a trading name of ACY Securities Pty Ltd (“ACY AU”) and ACY Capital LLC (“ACY LLC”), that all Australian residents are onboarded with ACY AU and that non-Australians may be onboarded with ACY LLC subject to local laws. In both versions it says all client funds are held in fully segregated client trust accounts at Commonwealth Bank and will not be used to pay creditors if ACY becomes insolvent, and that ACY AU and ACY LLC have professional indemnity insurance for their clients “in compliance with ASIC’s Regulatory Guide”. Australian clients are referred to AFCA; the international version says complaints are handled internally and can be escalated to “an external body”, without naming one.
Jordan Securities CommissionRegulator recordChecked 26 Oct 2026Jordan
Entry 12 is Al Bilad Securities and Investment, licensed as an introducing broker for foreign exchanges. The JSC’s separate list of the foreign brokers each Jordanian company has contracted does not show an entry for Al Bilad or ACY.
Australian Business RegisterOfficial filingChecked 26 Oct 2026Australia
The company, an Australian private company active since 6 May 2011 and based in NSW 2067, was named Synergy Financial Markets Pty Ltd until 27 February 2019 and ACY Securities Pty Ltd since. Its current business names include ACY Securities (from 14 March 2019), Synergy Markets, Synergy FX and Blueberry Markets Group (from 16 December 2022).
Describes the ACY Group as a Sydney fintech and financial services group regulated by ASIC under AFSLs 403863 and 474738, with businesses including ACY Securities, ACY Partners (white labels and introducing brokers), ACY Advisory and Trading Cup. Names Jimmy Ye and Winson Cao as co-founders and directors of the ACY Group of companies, and says they founded ACY in 2013. It does not say who owns the companies.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Says ACY Capital was founded in Melbourne in 2013 and that ACY gives traders fast execution “using our ECN trading model”. Its timeline says Synergy Financial Markets (Synergy FX) was founded in Sydney in 2011 and acquired by ACY in 2018, and that Andrew Taylor was appointed Managing Director in 2022.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany documentPublished 28 Mar 2021Checked 26 Oct 2026Australia
ACY Securities issues the CFDs as principal and may hedge with hedging counterparties it nominates case by case, without naming them, and explains the conflict of interest in dealing as counterparty. Client money is held in a pooled trust account under ASIC’s client money rules, reconciled daily, and is not used for hedging, margining or as working capital; wholesale client money may be used for hedging. Retail clients have negative balance protection. Margin call at 100% of the requirement and close-out at 50%; leverage examples at 30:1. Bank fees for international transfers are passed on. Unresolved complaints can go to AFCA.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Updated 9 May 2025. Negative balance protection is offered to Australian retail clients, as a one-time courtesy to Australian wholesale clients, and for clients from other jurisdictions a rebalance request is subject to approval and may be rejected.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany documentPublished 28 Mar 2021Checked 26 Oct 2026Australia
Says ACY Securities holds professional indemnity insurance under s912B of the Corporations Act covering the activities conducted under its AFSL, up to AUD 2.5 million in the aggregate, as its compensation arrangements.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Lists deposit methods by country with minimum and maximum amounts and processing times, and says ACY charges no deposit fees, although merchant fees may apply. The list includes Chinese payment methods and a JPY card method for Japan.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Clients get five free withdrawals a month, after which each costs $25 in the base currency. Related articles say withdrawals are requested in the acy.cloud portal and processed the same day if received before 21:00 AEST on business days, that instant crypto withdrawals are limited to 30% of equity, and that a margin level of 150% is needed to withdraw.
Australian Securities and Investments CommissionRegulator recordPublished 8 Jun 2017Checked 26 Oct 2026Australia
Synergy Financial Markets Pty Ltd paid a $10,800 penalty after ASIC issued an infringement notice for false or misleading statements on its website: it said investors in its two managed discretionary accounts would only pay Synergy “when your account profits”, while it charged brokerage fees and commissions on both accounts and a 2% annual management fee on one, whether or not the investment made a profit. Synergy removed the statements. Paying an infringement notice is not an admission of a contravention.
Financial Services Agency of JapanRegulator recordPublished 23 Oct 2026Checked 26 Oct 2026Japan
Lists ACY Capital Australia Limited, with addresses at the Govant Building, Port Vila, Vanuatu, Tower B, Level 18, 799 Pacific Hwy, Chatswood and 80 Collins Street, Melbourne, warned on 27 February 2023 for soliciting over-the-counter derivatives trading over the internet without registration in Japan; the service named is “ACY SECURITIES”.
National Securities and Stock Market Commission of UkraineRegulator recordPublished 15 May 2024Checked 26 Oct 2026Ukraine
Announces 24 cases added to the NSSMC’s list of unreliable investment projects, including “ACY Securities” with the websites acyhk.com/ru/ and acy.com/ru/, and reminds investors of the risks of dealing with persons whose activity in Ukraine is not regulated.
Autorité des marchés financiersRegulator recordPublished 29 Sept 2023Checked 26 Oct 2026France
Lists the unauthorised Forex websites identified in the third quarter of 2023 and now notes that “Acy.com a été retiré le 26/03/2026 de la liste noire Forex” (acy.com was removed from the Forex blacklist on 26 March 2026). The AMF’s blacklist search returned no entry for ACY on 26 October 2026.
Comisión Nacional del Mercado de ValoresRegulator recordChecked 26 Oct 2026Spain
A search of the CNMV’s warnings about unauthorised entities for “ACY” returns only an unrelated crypto website. A search by date shows ten warnings issued on 5 February 2024, none of them about ACY.
Securities Commission MalaysiaRegulator recordChecked 26 Oct 2026Malaysia
The current list has no entry for ACY Securities, ACY Capital or acy.com. We did not find the SC’s own 2022 announcement adding ACY in the alert updates we checked from January to March 2022.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission; and othersRegulator recordChecked 26 Oct 2026
On 26 October 2026 we searched ASIC’s licensee data and media releases, CySEC’s 1,173 board decisions, the FCA’s list and warning pages, the CVM’s declaratory acts, KNF’s lists, the Reserve Bank of India’s alert list (19 November 2025), Bank Negara Malaysia’s and the Securities Commission Malaysia’s alert lists, the Japan FSA’s list of warned unregistered firms (23 October 2026), the CNMV’s warnings, the AMF’s blacklist, the NSSMC’s list, the FSCA’s regulatory actions report for 2025 to 2026 and the St Vincent FSA’s register for ACY Securities, ACY Capital, Synergy Financial Markets and acy.com, and ran web searches for Consob and other actions. We found ASIC’s 2017 infringement notice, the Japanese and Ukrainian warnings and the French blacklist entry, since removed. Press reports of a Spanish warning (2024) and a Malaysian alert (2022) could not be matched on those regulators’ current lists.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany documentChecked 26 Oct 2026Australia
Complaints can be made through a portal ticket, in writing to ACY Tower, Chatswood, by phone or by email; ACY acknowledges them and generally deals with them within 30 calendar days, and unresolved complaints can go to AFCA, whose determinations bind ACY.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
The international version lists Basic, Standard and ProZero accounts (minimum deposits of $50, $100 and $200; zero commission on Basic and Standard, from $3 per lot per side on ProZero) with leverage of “up to 1:5000 (via ACY Trading Platform)”, while the same page says ProZero offers leverage up to 500:1 and that all accounts offer leverage up to 500:1. The Australian version lists ProZero with commissions from $1.5 per lot per side and leverage up to 1:30.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Updated 4 April 2024. Gives maximum leverage for non-Australian clients of 500:1 on FX and metals, 100:1 on indices and commodities, 10:1 on crypto-assets and 5:1 on shares, and for Australian clients the ASIC limits (30:1 on major FX pairs).
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Updated 30 June 2025. Australian retail clients’ largest position is closed at a margin level of 50% or lower, other clients’ at 30% or lower “or as outlined in your product terms and conditions”.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Says ACY Securities was founded in 2011 as a trading education company and calls it a “multi-regulated broker”. Offers leverage of up to 5000:1 on the ACY Trading Platform, more than 2,200 CFDs and liquidity from up to 16 providers. It names no owners or managers.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Says its spreads are sourced from more than 15 bank and non-bank liquidity providers, “including Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, State Street, UBS, Citadel and more”.
ACY Securities Pty LtdCompany statementChecked 26 Oct 2026
Gives offices at Tower B, Level 18, 799 Pacific Hwy, Chatswood NSW 2067 and North Tower, Level 14, Suite 4, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne, with support by phone, email (support@acy.com) and live chat 24 hours a day, five days a week.
National Securities and Stock Market Commission of UkraineRegulator recordChecked 26 Oct 2026Ukraine
The current list still includes ACY Securities (acyhk.com/ru/, acy.com/ru/). The NSSMC lists projects that match one or more of its signs of doubtful or unfair raising of investors’ funds.
Finance MagnatesSecondary reportingPublished 5 Feb 2024Checked 26 Oct 2026Spain
Reports that on 5 February 2024 the CNMV added ACY Securities and its website to its warning list of firms not authorised to provide investment services in Spain.
FastBull BrokersViewSecondary reportingPublished 2 Mar 2022Checked 26 Oct 2026Malaysia
Reports that the Securities Commission Malaysia added ACY Securities to its Investor Alert List for carrying on regulated capital market activities of dealing in securities without a licence from the SC.
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