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Information and steps on how to register a business name
Register a business nameTo renew a business name, you will need your account number or ABN handy.
Renewing your business nameThe ASIC Connect portal will allow you to:
The ASIC Connect portal will allow you to:
Within online services for business name holders, you can:
Information and steps on how to register a new business
Register a companyManage your company details via the company officeholder portal:
Download your company annual review statement from ASIC, which includes your annual invoice and payment details.
Lodge regulatory statements, documents and transactions in the Regulatory portal.
Within online services for company officeholders, you can:
Update your client details via the Registered agent portal.
Information about how you can update and/or cancel your registered agent registration.
Within online services for registered agents and authorised lodgers, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for an Australian financial services (AFS) licence.
Applying for and managing an AFS licenceUpdate your AFS licence details and lodge financial document via the Regulatory portal.
Changing your licence details through the Regulatory PortalLog in to ASIC Connect to appoint and update AFS representative's details.
Lodge regulatory documents and transaction in the ASIC Regulatory Portal
You can register a managed investment scheme using the eLicensing system (not the ASIC regulatory portal).
Log in to the eLicensing systemYou can lodge FS88 PDS in-use notice using the eLicensing system (not the ASIC regulatory portal).
Log in to the eLicensing systemWithin online services for business name holders, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for a credit licence.
Apply for a credit licenceUpdate your credit licence details and appoint credit representations via the Credit Licensee portal
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
Within online services for credit licensees and credit representatives, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for auditor or authorised audit company registration.
Applying for an auditor registrationUpdate your auditors details and submit annual statements via the Auditors portal.
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
Apply and maintain your SMSF auditor registration via the Regulatory portal.
Within online services for SMSF auditors, you can:
Update your liquidator details and lodge external administration documents via the liquidator portal.
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
Online services
Key points:
The company alert service is a free service that allows you to track certain changes made to a company. These are changes contained in documents that have been lodged with us.
You can set up profiles and manage alerts for:
We will email you if a document has been lodged against a company you have selected in your profile(s). You can buy a copy of the document, or a company
An ASIC document containing information extracted from ASIC’s registers about a business name, organisation or person.
When you set up a profile on the company alert service, you will be asked to select the types of documents you want to be informed about.
Here is a list of document types:
These documents deal with:
These documents deal with company share buy-backs, including:
These documents include:
These documents deal with company deregistration, including:
These documents note significant changes in an organisation that could affect market value. This can include:
These documents include:
A proprietary company is a type of company that has no more than 50 members who are not employees and that cannot offer shares to the public.
This category covers all fundraising documents, including supplementary prospectuses.
This category covers all takeover documents.
This category covers bidder's statements and target's statements.
You need a company alert service profile to set up and manage your alerts.
You may have up to 5 profiles. Each profile can track up to 25 companies.
Each profile is identified by an email address and a unique profile number. Keep the profile number, as you need it to change, display or cancel the profile.
You can use the same email address for all of your profiles.
You can update your profiles via our online service. For example, you can add companies or change details, such as your email address. You can also ask us to send you a list of all of the profiles linked to your email address.
On the company alert page, select ‘Add’.
Enter the email address you want us to send alerts to, then select ‘Submit’.
When creating a profile, you do not need to enter a profile number.
You will need to enter:
You will also need to select the types of documents you want alerts about. To do this, select the relevant boxes in the list.
You can choose as many categories as you want.
Then, select ‘Submit add’.
We will send you an email with the details of your alert, including your profile number. You should get this by the following day. You will need to keep your profile number.
You can update a profile at any time to add companies or change details, such as your email address.
On the company alert page, select ‘Change’.
You can update all information, except your profile number and the start date.
We will send you an email 2 weeks before the expiry date to remind you that your alert will expire shortly.
If you want to continue getting alerts, you will need to extend your expiry date. Follow the steps above to update alert details and change the expiry date.
If you don’t need the alert, just let it expire and we will cancel it for you.