Asic MCP server

asic-mcp

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.

Install

# Run on demand via uvx (recommended)
uvx --upgrade asic-mcp

# Or install permanently
pip install asic-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add to claudedesktopconfig.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. --upgrade makes uvx check PyPI on each launch and pull a newer release if one exists. To verify which version is currently serving you, look at the server_version field on any DataResponse.

Claude Code / Cursor

claude mcp add asic --command uvx --args -- --upgrade asic-mcp

Auto-updating data

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.

What it exposes

Five tools, all plain-English in, structured out:

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.