AFSL Number (Australian Financial Services Licence)

Detects Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) numbers issued by ASIC to authorised financial services providers.

Type: regex
Engine: universal
Confidence: low
Confidence justification: Low confidence: a bare 6-digit number is extremely common and will match postcodes, reference codes, invoice numbers, and many other numeric sequences. Corroborative evidence keywords such as AFSL, financial services licence, or ASIC are essential for reliable detection.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: AML/CTF Act (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001
Data categories: government-id, financial
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 7
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:AFSL|AFS\s+licen[cs]e|Australian\s+Financial\s+Services)\s*(?:number|no|#)?\s*[:#-]?\s*\d{6}\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

AFSL, AFS licence, AFS license, Australian Financial Services, Australian Financial Services Licence, financial services licence, financial services license, ASIC licence, ASIC license, licensee, authorised representative, authorized representative, financial adviser, financial advisor, government, agency, department, ministry, public sector, civil service (+24 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

AFSL 234567 — AFSL prefix with 6-digit number
AFS licence number 456789 — AFS licence label with number
Australian Financial Services 123456 — Full label with 6-digit number

Should not match

234567 — Bare 6-digit number without AFSL label
12345 — Only 5 digits, too short for AFSL number
1234567 — 7 digits, too long for AFSL number

Known false positives

Generic 6-digit numbers in invoices, reference codes, or postcodes may match without proper context. Mitigation: Require at least one corroborative keyword within proximity window.