RegistryConnect: Stabilising and uplifting ASIC business registers

The Government’s 2025-26 Budget included a significant funding commitment to ASIC’s RegistryConnect program to stabilise and uplift ASIC’s business registers.

ASIC’s business registers play a critical role in the economy by supporting the Australian financial system and businesses of all sizes, contributing substantial economic benefits.

What are ASIC's registers?

ASIC’s registers include the companies, business names, professional, and banned and disqualified persons registers.

These registers are the official source of information about organisations and professionals registered or licensed to operate in the Australian economy, supporting businesses, consumers and regulators to verify who they are dealing with and to make informed decisions.

The two largest registers contain the details of more than 3.6 million companies and 2.9 million business names.

In the past year there were more than 298 million searches of ASIC registers and 3.3 million lodgements processed.

Register data is used by individuals, businesses, and government agencies to establish trust, support high value business decisions, perform compliance and regulatory functions, and support legal proceedings in the courts.

Making ASIC’s registry services more reliable and easier to use will significantly improve and simplify the experience for individuals and businesses.

About RegistryConnect

Through the RegistryConnect program, ASIC will deliver reliable, secure, trusted and efficient registry services to support the economy for the benefit of all Australians.

The program is guided by five strategic objectives:

1. Stabilise ASIC registry technology to increase the security, reliability and performance of the registers.
2. Modernise and uplift registers, user channels and interfaces.
3. Improve the quality and integrity of registry data, including linking of additional data sets.
4. Achieve policy and law reform that enables better registry outcomes.
5. Develop enduring capabilities to deliver future changes.

To support this program, we established the Registry Business Advisory Group. This group provides strategic insight and guidance to the development of future proposals to stabilise and uplift our registers.

What's coming

June 2026

We are launching a refreshed ASIC Companies Register search service for the public with a simpler and more intuitive online search experience, making company information easier to access.

At the same time, new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) will be released to information brokers to consume in preparation of a new machine-to-machine channel. New APIs for Digital Service Providers will follow later in 2026.

This will be the first of several releases and focuses on information from the Companies Register that is currently accessible for free.

December 2026

We will expand the refreshed ASIC Companies Register search service to include company extracts and copies of lodged documents available to purchase.