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Company Risk

Company Risk Report API

Company Risk Report orders a report on an Australian company from its ABN or ACN. The report combines several data sources to describe the company's financial health, legal standing and the risks of dealing with it, and is collected with Retrieve Company Risk Report as JSON or PDF.

  • One request by ABN or ACN; the report combines data sources on the company's financial health, legal standing and dealing risks
  • The request returns at once with a reference; generation usually completes within a few seconds
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
  • Company Risk Report guide and sandbox companies
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Calls to this endpoint outside the sandbox are billed. Production keys are issued once the account is approved.

Encrypted in transit and at rest Handled under the Australian Privacy Principles
What the check gives you

Assessing the risk of dealing with a company before you extend it credit or a contract

A register search tells you a company exists. Before extending credit, signing a contract or onboarding a supplier, a business needs a view of the company's financial health, its legal standing and the risks of dealing with it. Company Risk Report orders that view on demand. The request returns immediately with a reference, the report is generated in the background, and it is collected with Retrieve Company Risk Report in JSON or PDF.

Financial health

The report draws on several data sources to describe the company's financial position, as documented in the Company Risk Report guide.

Legal standing

The report describes the company's legal standing from the sources it combines.

Risks in dealing with the company

The report sets out the potential risks associated with business dealings with the company.

A format for each reader

The report is retrieved as JSON for your systems or, with pdf=true on the retrieve call, as a formatted PDF for a person to read and file.

How a check runs

Request now, collect when the report is ready

Company Risk returns at once with an API reference and the report is generated in the background. Retrieve Company Risk Report holds the connection for up to 30 seconds and returns the report when it is ready, or a 202 response if it is not.

Generation usually completes within a few seconds. A report can be retrieved for 24 hours after the request; after that a new request is needed. Calls to this endpoint outside the sandbox are billed.

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 Company Risk

Retrieve Company Risk Report collects the report ordered here. ASIC Company Search finds the ABN or ACN.

Questions

Questions we get asked about Company Risk Report

Do we need a developer to implement this?
Yes. Company Risk is a REST endpoint that queues the report and returns a reference, and the report is collected with a second call, so a developer connects the two-step flow to your system. A sandbox with a deterministic 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 the 11-digit ABN or the 9-digit ACN, not both. Whitespace is ignored.
What comes back?
This call returns a message of Ok and an API reference. The report itself is collected from Retrieve Company Risk Report using that reference, as JSON or, with pdf=true, as a PDF document.
How long does the report take?
Generation starts as soon as the request is made and normally completes within a few seconds. The retrieve call waits up to 30 seconds and returns a 202 response if the report is not ready, so your system repeats the call with the same reference, backing off between attempts. The report can be retrieved for 24 hours after the request; after that a new request is needed.
How is this billed?
Calls to Company Risk outside the sandbox are billed. The retrieval call is not billed and can be repeated until the report is ready. Rates are set out in your commercial agreement.
Where does the data come from?
The report combines various data sources, as described in the Company Risk Report guide. The reference documentation does not enumerate the sources or the sections of the report.
Are the ABNs and ACNs 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.
Getting started

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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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