What is the ASIC register?
The ASIC register is Australia's public companies and business-names register, maintained by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. In Fonteum, the relevant source family is the ASIC Company Dataset on data.gov.au, which publishes company-level ACN, name, type, class, status, registration-date, and ABN fields.
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- ASIC: data.gov.au datasets
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Full name: Australian Securities and Investments Commission Register
Short explanation
ASIC is Australia's corporate regulator and register authority. Fonteum's `australia-asic` source family uses the ASIC Company Dataset published through data.gov.au, licensed CC-BY-3.0-AU, and stores company-level fields keyed by ACN. ABN appears when the source row publishes it, but the ACN remains the company-register key. The source should not be read as a private credit file or a judgment on company quality.
Related platform: Source library
How it’s used
- Australian company lookup: ACN anchors the ASIC company record, with company name, type, class, status, registration date, and deregistration date where published.
- ABN/ACN separation: Fonteum keeps ABN and ACN as separate identifier facts because ABN is a wider business and tax-facing identifier.
- Bulk register ingestion: the `australia-asic` adapter reads the public ASIC Company Dataset and stores source, license, and row-level limitations.
Frequently asked questions
- What does ASIC stand for?
- ASIC stands for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
- What identifier anchors ASIC company records?
- The Australian Company Number, or ACN, anchors company records in the ASIC Company Dataset.
- Does the ASIC Company Dataset include ABNs?
- It can include ABN when ASIC publishes that value on the row, but the ACN remains the company-register identifier.
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