Australian Banned and Disqualified Financial Organizations Register

Weekly updated snapshot of ASIC's registers listing organizations prohibited from financial and credit activities. The dataset includes fields such as Register name, Organization ACN, Name, Type, Start Date, and End Date. It is published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission under a CC-BY license.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in Banned and Disqualified Organisation Type over time using Start Date and End Date fields.
• Build a monitoring system to flag organizations by their ACN against the weekly updated register snapshot.
• Correlate Register name with Organisation Comment to understand the reasons for regulatory actions.

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures current regulatory status information.
• Data is sourced directly from ASIC, Australia's primary financial services regulator.
• Includes key temporal fields like Start Date and End Date for longitudinal analysis.

Limitations

• Dataset is a point-in-time snapshot; historical changes between updates are not captured.
• Unknown row count and sample size limit assessment of statistical significance.
• Legislation restricts the type of information ASIC can disclose, potentially limiting detail.

Provenance

Source

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)

Collection Method

Extracted from ASIC's Banned and Disqualified Registers.

Time Range

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Freshness

Weekly updates every Tuesday.

Geography

Australia