The glass-forming ability and properties of Ni-based Ni-Fe-B-Si-Ta bulk metallic glasses are explored in this work. The alloy compositions are determined by using a combination of the cluster line approach, the multi-alloying strategy and the substitutions of similar elements. Bulk metallic glasses with diameters of 3 mm take shape at compositions formulated under the cluster-plus-glue-atom model [M 9 B]B~[(Ni 1−x Fe x ) 7.71 (Si 0.66 Ta 0.34 ) 1.29 B]B 0.94 =(Ni 1−x Fe x ) 70.5 B 17.7 Si 7.8 Ta 4 , x=0.35-0.45, where the bracketed part is the cluster and the unbracketed part is the glue atoms. These alloys exhibit good magnetic properties. The maximum I s is found in the (Ni 0.55 Fe 0.45 ) 70.5 B 17.7 Si 7.8 Ta 4 alloy which reaches 0.51 T, with its H c as low as 8.5 A/m. Interestingly, these alloys display dual glass transitions at (Ni 0.