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Customer onboarding, screening and ongoing monitoring in one system, with real-time KYC and KYB alerts when a customer's risk changes.

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One-to-one identity, document and data checks against the DVS and Australian data sources, run from the Portal or by API.

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Confirm a person or business is who they claim to be: government IDs, biometrics, business registries and employment checks against authoritative Australian sources.

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The WatchEye API gives programmatic access to everything in WatchEye: PEP and sanctions screening, identity checks, IDPass verifications, monitoring programs, events and reports.

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ASIC Search API

ASIC Search looks up a company or business name on the ASIC register and returns the record held there. Your system receives the registered name, entity type, registration status, key dates, office addresses and the most recent documents lodged, from one call.

  • Search by ABN, ACN, state registration number or the exact business name, against the register maintained by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
  • One call returns the status code and description, the ABR entity details, the registered office and principal place of business, and the recent lodgements
For developers

After the technical detail?

For the technical detail, go to the API documentation. It holds the request and response schema, the integration guides and the error codes for this endpoint.

  • Request and response schema
  • Number formats and error codes
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Accounts start in the sandbox. Production keys are issued once the account is approved.

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What the check gives you

Confirming a business exists and is still registered

A business name or number supplied by a customer is only useful once it has been checked against the register. ASIC Search takes the number or the exact business name, finds the matching record on the ASIC register and returns it in full. Your system can store the registered name and status alongside the customer record and flag any business that is not registered.

The registered identity

The response carries the business number with its heading, ABN or ACN, the registered name, the jurisdiction, and the business type with its code and description. For companies it also carries the class and subclass, for example Limited By Shares and Proprietary Company.

Registration status and dates

The status is returned as a code, a description and a registered flag, alongside the date the business was registered and the date of its next review.

The ABR entity

Where the business is an ABR entity, the response carries its ABN, entity name, entity type and effective date.

Addresses and recent lodgements

Each address is typed as the registered office or the principal place of business, with state, postcode, locality and country code. The first address line is restricted in most cases. The most recent documents lodged with ASIC are listed with their form code, description, date received, page count and document number.

How a check runs

One call, answered from the ASIC register in the same response

Your system sends a number or an exact business name. The register is searched and the matching record is returned in the same call, with no polling.

Accepted numbers are an 11-digit ABN, a 9-digit ACN, or a state registration number in the form jurisdiction:number, for example NSW:1234567. A business name must be supplied exactly as registered.

What it costs

A monthly subscription, drawn down as you run checks

Your subscription is credited to your account each month and each check consumes credits from it. If you go past the included amount, further checks are charged at a per-check rate. The rate depends on the volume you commit to, so the sales team is the fastest way to find where your business lands.

  • Volume-based pricing
  • No lock-in contract
How billing works
Subscribe monthly, spend it as credits
  • The monthly subscription arrives as credits on your account.
  • Each check draws down credits as it runs.
  • Checks beyond the included credits are billed per check.
  • Higher monthly volume moves you to a lower rate.
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Related checks

Others in ASIC

ASIC Search Bulk runs this search for a list of businesses in one call. ASIC Extract orders the official current, historical or relational extract for a company or a person. ASIC ID Check confirms a person is on the officeholder and shareholder register.

Questions

Questions we get asked about ASIC search

Do we need a developer to implement this?
Yes. ASIC Search is a REST endpoint that takes a JSON request and returns a JSON response, so a developer connects it to your onboarding or customer system. A sandbox with a separate test dataset is provided at no usage cost, so the integration can be built and tested before production keys are issued.
What does our system need to send?
Either a number or a business name. The number can be an 11-digit ABN, a 9-digit ACN or a state registration number written as the jurisdiction and the number, for example NSW:1234567. A business name search needs the exact name of the business.
What comes back?
A single match object. It carries the identifier, jurisdiction, name, type, class and subclass, status, ABR entity details, registration and review dates, incorporation state, the addresses on file and the most recent documents lodged.
Do we get the full street address?
Usually not. Each address carries its type, state, postcode, locality and country code. The first address line is restricted in most cases and is returned as RESTRICTED.
Where does the data come from?
The record is returned from the ASIC register, maintained by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. The ABR entity details describe the business on the Australian Business Register. The reference documentation does not state a refresh cycle; the dates on the record show when it was registered, when it is next due for review and when each document was received.
Is there a limit on how many searches we can run?
The API allows 600 requests per minute by default, measured as a rolling average, and returns a 429 response above that rate. ASIC Search Bulk takes a list of businesses in one request. A higher limit can be requested through Global Data support.
Is the search we send stored by Global Data?
Personally identifiable information sent in a request is not stored or retained unless it is needed to process that request. Query data is stripped of PII before it is kept for audit. Data in transit and at rest is encrypted, and retention follows the Australian Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles. Global Data is not a credit bureau and does not create an access footprint on any record.
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New accounts begin with sandbox access, and production API keys are issued once the account has been commercially approved.

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