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.
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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.
LoginWithin 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, register, update and cease AFS representatives 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.
LoginWithin 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:
ASIC maintains registers of Australian companies and several other types of organisations. Anyone can search the registers to find information about a company or organisation.
The following is a list of the types of organisation you can search ASIC registers for. We have included links to information about how to register them.
Search for a company or organisation
Under ‘Search ASIC Registers’, select ‘Search within: Organisation & Business names’. Enter the term you want to search by. This can be:
For step-by-step instructions, see our user guide: Organisation-and-business-name-search (PDF 935 KB)
Basic information about the company or organisation is available for free. This includes:
If you need more information than what you can get for free, you can buy more information online.
You will see the information that you can buy below the free information in the search results. This information includes company extracts, which contain details of the company's officeholders.
You can buy:
Learn more: Guide to reading current company extracts (PDF 501 KB)
If you’re a company officeholder and worried about your safety, you can ask us to hide a residential address from the public.
You can buy:
You can buy:
You can buy:
You can buy copies of publicly available documents that have been lodged with ASIC in relation to the company or organisation. You will see the publicly available documents below the free information.
Fees for copies of documents are:
You can search by a specific document number if you know it. Go to the register search page, then under ‘Search ASIC Registers’, select ‘Search within: Documents’ instead of ‘Organisation & Business Names’.
You can get a certified copy of publicly available documents mailed to you.
A certified copy has an original ASIC stamp and signature. The stamp and signature show that the copy is a true copy of the document on our register. It can be accepted as evidence in court.
We cannot certify copies of registration certificates, register extracts or some documents relating to insurance brokers or foreign insurance agents.
Fees for certified copies of documents are:
Significant Global Entities (SGEs) are companies that are required by law to lodge general purpose financial statements with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The ATO passes these statements on to ASIC. You can then buy copies of these statements through our register. These statements are labelled with the document type SGEF.
For more information about SGEs and general purpose financial statements, contact SGE@ato.gov.au.