ASIC

Information and guides to help to start and manage your business or company.

• Registering a business name
  • Before you register a business name
  • Steps to register your business name
  • Check business name details are up to date
  • How to update business name details
  • Request an alternative registration period for business name
  • How to renew your business name
  • Who needs to transfer business name
  • Steps to transfer a business name to a new owner
  • Steps to register a business name with a transfer number
  • Stop your business name transfer
  • Changing your business name ABN
  • Cancel your business name
    • Before you cancel your business name
    • Steps to cancel your business name
    • Once you cancel your business name
    • ASIC-initiated cancellation of business name
    • Before you register a company
    • Steps to register a company
    • Norfolk Island Reforms
    • Company officeholder duties
    • Annual statements
    • Shares
    • I'm a company officeholder, what are my registration obligations?
    • Charities registered with the ACNC
    • Company shareholders
    • Changing company addresses
    • Changing a company name
    • Changing a company type
    • Passing a company resolution
    • Changing officeholder details
    • Changing shareholder details
    • Changing a company financial year
    • Court orders to correct ASIC registers
    • Closing your company
      • Deregistration
      • Effects of deregistration
      • Reinstating a deregistered company
      • ASIC fees
      • ASIC invoices
      • Checking your account balance
      • Missing payments
      • Refunds
      • Payment options
      • Fee waivers
      • Late fees
      • Starting a small business
      • Starting a small business company
      • Running a small business
      • Protecting your small business
      • Closing a small business
      • Indigenous corporations
      • Small business resources
      • Informal assistance for fintechs and regtechs
      • Enhanced regulatory sandbox (ERS)
      • Innovation Hub engagement and events
      • Regtech initiatives and programs
      • Mail Subscriptions

      Information about applying for and maintaining your licence or professional registration

      • AFS licensees
        • Financial Advisers Register
        • Do you need an AFS licence?
        • Applying for and managing an AFS licence
        • AFS licensee obligations
        • Changing details and lodging AFS forms
        • Varying or cancelling your AFS licence
        • Appointing and ceasing an AFS authorised representative
        • How to register a financial adviser with ASIC
        • Limited AFS licensees
        • Do you need a credit licence?
        • Applying for and managing your credit licence
        • Changing details of your credit licence
        • Your ongoing credit licence obligations
        • Varying or cancelling your credit licence
        • Credit representatives
        • Company auditors
          • Tips for applying for auditor registration
          • Applying for auditor or authorised audit company registration
          • Your ongoing obligations as a registered company auditor
          • Changing your auditor registration details
          • Cancelling your auditor registration
          • How to register a managed investment scheme
          • Running a registered scheme
          • Closing a registered scheme
          • How to register as an Australian passport fund
          • How to become a notified foreign passport fund
          • How to register a corporate collective investment vehicle and sub-funds
          • Seeking relief from financial services provisions that apply to managed funds
          • Frozen funds – Information for responsible entities
          • Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditors
            • New online service for SMSF auditors
            • Applying for SMSF auditor registration
            • Updating your details and submitting requests to ASIC
            • Your ongoing obligations as an SMSF auditor
            • ASIC’s priorities for the supervision of registered liquidators in 2022–23
            • Applying for and managing your liquidator registration
            • Your ongoing obligations as a registered liquidator
            • Cancelling or suspending your liquidator registration
            • Registered liquidator transactions on the ASIC Regulatory Portal
            • Insolvency forms
            • Mental health support for registered liquidators
            • Licensed and exempt market operators
            • Licensed and exempt clearing and settlement facilities
            • Benchmark administrators

            How ASIC regulates financial services and products and what to do when you have a problem with your finances.

            • Consumer education
            • Unclaimed money
            • Banned and disqualified people
            • Banking
            • Loans and credit cards
              • Hardship threshold
              • Frozen funds and hardship withdrawals
              • Dealing with insolvent companies
              • How to complain
              • What to do if you’ve been scammed
              • ASIC’s Alert Investor

              Everything you need to know about the areas we regulate.

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