Fusion Markets review

Regulated by

ASIC (AFSL 385620); Seychelles FSA (SD096); Vanuatu VFSC (40256)

Regulator tier

Tier 1

Register entry

ASIC Professional Registers, AFSL 385620

Client money segregated

Yes

Held at

National Australia Bank (NAB)

Negative balance protection

Yes

Compensation scheme

No statutory investor compensation scheme

Audited by

Not prominently disclosed

Not available to

Afghanistan, Congo, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Myanmar, New Zealand, North Korea, Ontario (Canada), Palestine, Russia, Spain, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, United States and US territories

Check the licence on the regulator's own site, not on a link somebody sent you.

Fusion Markets holds a tier-one authorisation from ASIC. That matters more than any headline spread: it determines your leverage cap, whether losses can exceed your deposit, and what happens to your money if the firm fails.

It also operates an offshore entity (VFSC and FSA). Which one you are onboarded to depends on where you live, and the two carry very different protections - worth confirming before you deposit.

ASIC caps retail leverage at 1:30, requires negative balance protection, and obliges the broker to hold client money in a separate trust account.

Vanuatu's VFSC is an offshore licence with limited oversight and no compensation scheme. It is often the entity that offers the highest leverage.

An FSA licence here is usually the Seychelles authorisation - an offshore entity, with lighter obligations than a tier-one regulator.

Check the licence yourself: ASIC Connect, the Seychelles FSA list of regulated entities.

Legal entity

Fusion Markets International Ltd

Company number

Seychelles-registered company

Headquarters

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Founded

2017

Publicly listed

No

Parent company

Fusion Markets Pty Ltd / Gleneagle group structure

Employees

Approx. 50-200

Also trades as

Fusion Markets

Deposit methods

Bank transfer, Visa/Mastercard, PayPal and numerous regional/electronic methods

Withdrawal methods

Bank transfer, cards and supported electronic/local methods

Deposit time

Many electronic methods instant; bank wire 1-5 business days

Withdrawal time

85% processed internally in under 1 hour

Local payment methods

30+ funding options, country-dependent

Spread from

0.0 pips

EUR/USD spread

Dynamic; published through live/historical spread tool

GBP/USD spread

Dynamic; published through live/historical spread tool

Commission

$2.25 per side / $4.50 round turn, Zero

All-in cost, EUR/USD

Approx. 0.5 pips, Zero

Spread type

Variable

Overnight swap

Both: overnight swaps may be charged or credited

Deposit fee

$0

Withdrawal fee

$0

Currency conversion

Applicable where conversion is required

An offer that beats the market by a wide margin is the most reliable warning sign there is.

A quoted spread from 0.0 pips is a raw-spread figure, which almost always means a separate commission per lot. Compare the two together - a "zero spread" account with a high commission can cost more than a wider spread with none.

Quoted spreads are best-case figures on the most liquid pair, in normal conditions. What you actually pay widens around news and at the session open.

Fusion Markets lists a minimum deposit of $0. Treat it as the cost of opening an account, not the cost of trading one - position sizing on a small balance is what tends to cause damage.

Markets

Forex, Shares, Indices, Commodities, Metals, Energies, Cryptocurrencies

Currency pairs

90+

Total instruments

Hundreds

Crypto CFDs

Yes

Maximum leverage

1:500

Execution model

No Dealing Desk

Execution speed

Low-latency; current benchmark independently measured

Order types

Market, limit, stop, stop-loss, take-profit, trailing stop and platform-specific orders

Servers

Low-latency institutional infrastructure

Leverage up to 1:500 is available on this entity. High leverage does not increase your expected return - it increases position size for the same deposit, and shortens the move needed to close you out.

Fusion Markets covers forex, shares, indices, commodities, metals, energies, cryptocurrencies. A wider range matters less than depth in the instruments you actually trade.

Funding options: bank transfer, visa/mastercard, paypal and numerous regional/electronic methods. Check withdrawal routes as well as deposit ones - they are often not the same, and the difference only becomes apparent when you try to take money out.

Platforms

MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, TradingView

Own platform

No

Mobile app

MT4, MT5, cTrader and TradingView

Browser trading

Yes

Automated trading

Yes

Copy trading

Yes, Fusion+

Indicators

Extensive MT4/MT5, cTrader and TradingView libraries

Third-party tools

MT4, MT5, cTrader, TradingView

API access

Platform/institutional options available

MetaTrader 4 remains the most widely supported platform for expert advisors. If you rely on an existing EA, this is usually the deciding factor.

MetaTrader 5 handles more asset classes and order types than MT4, but expert advisors are not compatible between the two - an MT4 EA will not run on it.

cTrader shows depth of market and level II pricing, and is usually paired with raw-spread accounts rather than fixed-spread ones.

TradingView integration lets you trade from charts you may already use, removing the need to run a second platform for analysis.

Minimum deposit

$0

Account types

Zero, Classic, Swap-Free, Fusion Pro, Demo

Account currencies

AUD, USD, EUR, GBP, SGD, JPY and others depending on platform/entity

Islamic account

Yes

Demo account

Yes

Professional account

Yes, Fusion Pro

Minimum trade size

0.01 lots

Time to open

Typically a few minutes, subject to verification

Support hours

24/7

Contact channels

Live chat, email, Help Centre

Languages

Multilingual

Telephone

N/A

Email

help@fusionmarkets.com

Live chat response

Typically within minutes

Education

Trading education, webinars, platform guides and learning resources

Research

Market commentary, webinars, trading tools and analysis