ASIC ID Check

Verifies a person against the ASIC officeholder and shareholder register using their name and date of birth. Returns a small match_results summary indicating whether the supplied details match an ASIC record.

Use this endpoint when you need to confirm a person is on the ASIC register. If you need the actual ASIC record (officeholdings, shareholdings, addresses, etc.) use /asic_extract_person_search and /asic_extract instead.

Match rules

• First name, last name and birth_date must all match an ASIC record for the check to pass.
• middle_name, when supplied, is reported on but does not gate the result. A check can pass with middle_name: no_match. ASIC's middle-name records are inconsistent - it is common for them to be missing entirely, recorded as an initial only, or only partially recorded - so we treat the middle name as a soft signal rather than a hard requirement.

Name matching

Name comparisons are case-insensitive and use the following normalisation rules on both the supplied value and the ASIC record:

• Case. Smith, SMITH, and smith are treated as the same name.
• Accents and non-ASCII characters. Transliterated to ASCII before comparison. Müller is treated as Muller, André as Andre.
• Apostrophes. Ignored. O'Donnell and ODonnell are treated as the same name. Both straight (') and curly (’) apostrophes are normalised.
• Hyphens. Significant. Smith-Jones and Smith Jones (or SmithJones) are not treated as the same name - they should be supplied exactly as the ASIC record has them.
• Punctuation and brackets. Dots and parenthesised content are stripped before comparison (John (Jack) is treated as John, St. as St).
• Whitespace. Repeated whitespace is collapsed to single spaces and leading/trailing whitespace is trimmed.

There is no fuzzy matching - all comparisons are exact after the normalisation rules above.

Input expectations

• Names should be provided as they appear on ASIC records. A combined maximum of three given names is allowed across first_name and middle_name.
• birth_date must be an ISO YYYY-MM-DD date after 1900-01-01.

Response

The match_results object has two keys:

• person: match when the supplied first name, last name and date of birth match an ASIC record; otherwise no_match. no_match also covers the case where the search criteria are too broad to evaluate against a single record.
• middle_name: match when the supplied middle name matches the ASIC record, no_match when it does not (or the ASIC record has no middle name on file), or not_provided when no middle name was supplied.

Sandbox environment

The sandbox person register is deterministic. The name and date of birth combinations that pass an ID check are listed in the ASIC Sandbox Data guide.