Becoming an information broker | ASIC

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Information and steps on how to register a business name

Register a business name

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Information and steps on how to register a new business

Register a company

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Update your client details via the Registered agent portal.

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Information and steps on how to apply for an Australian financial services (AFS) licence.

Applying for and managing an AFS licence

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Information and steps on how to apply for a credit licence.

Apply for a credit licence

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Information and steps on how to apply for auditor or authorised audit company registration.

Applying for an auditor registration

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Apply and maintain your SMSF auditor registration via the Regulatory portal.

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Update your liquidator details and lodge external administration documents via the liquidator portal.

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If you would like to become an ASIC information broker, you will need to apply.

Important information

ASIC is undertaking a multi-year program, RegistryConnect, to make our registers more stable and secure.

As part of this program, we are upgrading our systems that support information broker access to ASIC registers.

Accordingly, we are not accepting new information broker applications at this time. We will reopen applications in 2026 once the new system is ready.

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Technical information

These reference documents are for existing information brokers who work with the current system and services ASIC provides.

Australian Securities & Investments Commission Protective Security Policy Framework Requirements (PDF 170.13KB) updated 23 March 2019
Message implementation guide for ASIC information brokers (PDF 2.57 MB) version 1.8 updated 20 September 2022
Web services implementation guide (PDF 472 KB) version 3.2 updated 20 September 2022
Data communication specification(PDF 439.73KB) updated 15 May 2017
Datastream communications specification (PDF 440 KB) updated 15 May 2017
Datastream messages specification (PDF 3.58 MB) version 2.80 updated 2 August 2021
Datastream Application Communication Protocol specifications (PDF 134 KB) updated 4 March 1997.