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Information and steps on how to register a business name

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Information and steps on how to register a business name

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Information and steps on how to register a new business.

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Update your client details via the Registered agent portal.

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Information and steps on how to apply for an Australian financial services (AFS) licence.

Applying for and managing an AFS licence

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Information and steps on how to apply for a credit licence.

Apply for a credit licence

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Information and steps on how to apply for auditor or authorised audit company registration.

Applying for an auditor registration

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Apply and maintain your SMSF auditor registration via the Regulatory portal.

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Update your liquidator details and lodge external administration documents via the liquidator portal.

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What we do

ASIC is Australia's integrated corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator.

ASIC is an independent Australian Government body. We are set up under and administer the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (ASIC Act), and we carry out most of our work under the Corporations Act.

The laws we administer give us the powers we need to perform our role.

These include powers to:

Register and license

Maintain publicly accessible registers

Grant Australian financial services and credit licences

Regulate

Intervene to ban defective products

Make legislative rules to ensure financial market integrity

Grant relief from legislation

Enforce

Investigate suspected breaches

Issue infringement notices

Seek civil penalties

Ban individual activity

Prosecute offenders

Our powers are designed to protect consumers against misconduct and harms relating to financial products and services.