Focus Markets Partners

Focus Markets is an Australian multi-asset broker, founded in Melbourne in 2019 and operating under an ASIC licence (AFSL 514425) alongside a Mauritius FSC registration for its international entity. For a partner, the ASIC licence is the part worth leading with: it is a tier-one regulator, and a meaningful share of the programmes on this site are not able to say the same.

The trading offer is broad for a broker of its size. Around 800 instruments span forex, indices, commodities, shares, ETFs and cryptocurrencies, with a notably deep crypto CFD range of roughly 140 derivatives - considerably wider than most brokers carrying a crypto tab. Execution runs on MetaTrader 5 and TradeLocker, with servers in Tokyo and a published average execution speed under 45 milliseconds.

Account terms are accessible: no minimum deposit, spreads quoted from 0.0 pips, and leverage up to 1:1000 under the international entity, against the 1:30 cap that applies to Australian retail forex clients. Client funds are held in segregated accounts under the Australian entity. There is no statutory Australian investor compensation scheme equivalent to the UK's FSCS, which is worth knowing before you promote to audiences who expect one.

There are two programmes rather than one, and they pay on completely different schedules. The CPA partnership pays a one-off amount per qualified lead, settled monthly and banded by the client's country: up to $1,200 for tier-one markets such as the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore and the UAE, $800 for tier two and $500 for tier three. Where your traffic comes from therefore matters as much as how much of it there is.

The introducing broker programme pays a per-lot rebate instead, and pays it daily rather than monthly - unusual, and genuinely useful if you are funding ad spend. Rebates run $3, $4 and $5 per FX lot across the first three tiers, banded on how many clients you refer each month, rising to $12 on their top tier. Gold carries its own lower schedule.

Which of the two suits you is the ordinary CPA-against-revenue-share question, and it turns on how long your referred clients keep trading. Payment methods, minimum payout and supported languages are set inside the partner portal rather than published, so confirm those before committing traffic.