APAC Company Check — KYB: Australia, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan

APAC Company Check

Check any Australia, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan legal entity by its AU Australian Company Number (ACN) or Australian Business Number (ABN), SG Unique Entity Number (UEN), JP corporate number (hojin bango) and TW Unified Business Number (統一編號, UBN) in one call and get a clean English JSON answer with red flags, source attribution and a date on every field. Built for AI agents (MCP) and for KYB / AML onboarding, counterparty and supplier due diligence, vendor risk and compliance checks.

Same data as our single-country Actors. This Actor puts Australia Company Check, Singapore Company Check, Japan Company Check and Taiwan Company Check behind one MCP server: the same registers and the same answers, refreshed at least weekly. If you need only one of them, its own Actor does the same.

• One number → one answer from official open registers plus GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions and Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only.
• One schema for every country: the same fields and flags whether you check Australia or Singapore or Japan or Taiwan — your agent parses one format.
• Agent-ready: an MCP server (Streamable HTTP, /mcp) with check_company, check_companies and list_sources, a plain GET /check?country=&id= endpoint, and classic batch runs (list of numbers → dataset).
• Change history: registers publish only the current state; we keep our own snapshots, so every answer shows what was added or removed since history_since (e.g. a status change or a new sanctions listing).
• Pay per check (one charge per company answered; the price is on the Pricing tab), no subscription. Malformed numbers, sole traders and individuals are not charged. In Standby (MCP / HTTP) mode Apify also bills the small platform usage of the server run, as for every Standby Actor. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify to cap spending: when it is reached, the Actor returns an error instead of data.

What we check

Source	Licence	Publisher updates
ASIC Company Dataset (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) (AU)	CC BY 3.0 AU	weekly
ABN Bulk Extract (Australian Business Register) (AU)	CC BY 3.0 AU	weekly
ASIC Banned and Disqualified Organisations Register (AU)	CC BY 3.0 AU	weekly
ASIC Australian Financial Services and Credit Licensee Registers (AU)	CC BY 3.0 AU	weekly
Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA): Information on Corporate Entities (data.gov.sg) (SG)	Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0	monthly
National Tax Agency (Japan): Corporate Number Publication Site — basic three items (name, location, corporate number) of all corporate number holders, full monthly file plus daily change files (JP)	Several, see Data licences	daily
Fiscal Information Agency, Ministry of Finance (財政部財政資訊中心): National Business (Tax) Registration dataset (全國營業(稅籍)登記資料集) (TW)	Open Government Data License, version 1.0	daily
GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions	CC0 1.0	daily
Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only	Several, see Data licences	daily

Data refreshed at least weekly (from the latest published files: the Singapore register is published monthly, so its data can be up to a month old); every field carries its source date (provenance), and every answer lists each source with the date it was loaded (sources[].loaded_at; list_sources is free).

flags — true is a red flag: not_found (the number is not in the register dump), not_active, insolvency, liquidation, sanctions (match by registration number or LEI), sanctions_name_match (same name, same country: verify manually). false means there is no record in the loaded snapshot — it is not a clean bill of health. null means unknown. Call list_sources (free) for load times.

Australia: ASIC's dataset lists companies deregistered in the last 12 months only; older deregistrations appear only if the company had an ABN. No record means unknown, not fictitious. A valid Australian Company Number without a record therefore returns not_found: null (unknown, not fictitious) and is not charged.

Australia: Some small organisations without an ACN whose registered name is only a street address are returned as unsupported_entity_type (or without a record) and are not charged.

Japan: NTA Corporate Number Publication Site full file covers every corporate number ever assigned to registered companies and other legal persons, national and local government bodies and foreign companies, live and closed (monthly full file plus daily change files). Unincorporated associations and estates of deceased persons (kind 499) are not served. Liquidation and bankruptcy are not in the file. A T-prefixed number may be a sole proprietor's invoice registration number (not a corporate number): if it is not in the register, the result is unknown and not billed.

Japan: Status comes from the NTA corporate number file: dissolved = the register record was closed (liquidation completed, merger, closure by the registrar), with dissolved_at and the cause. A company that has resolved to dissolve or is being wound up (解散, 清算中) is still active in this file, and bankruptcy is not recorded: liquidation and insolvency are always null.

Lookup by the 13-digit corporate number (check digit verified), also with a T prefix (invoice registration number) and full-width digits. 12-digit commercial register numbers are not accepted (no check digit): use the 13-digit number from houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp.

Taiwan: The Fiscal Information Agency open dataset lists only businesses currently in operation (營業中); dissolved, suspended and closed businesses are not published, so no record means unknown, not fictitious. A valid Unified Business Number without a record therefore returns not_found: null (unknown, not fictitious) and is not charged.

Taiwan: status: active means the business is in the Fiscal Information Agency list of businesses in operation (營業中) for business tax; the source publishes nothing else, so dissolved, suspended or closed businesses answer not_found: null and are not billed, and a business that drops out of the list shows it in history. Bankruptcy and liquidation are not in the source: insolvency and liquidation are null, except when the registered name itself carries a court-appointed trustee (破產管理人, 清算人, 重整人) — then the flag is true and the trustee's name is cut from the name.

Names are in Chinese only, as registered; an English name comes only from GLEIF (lei). Because the sanctions lists are in Latin script, sanctions_name_match is null for a Chinese-only name: use the identifier and LEI matches. Full-width digits (２２０９９１３１) are accepted.

Identifiers

Country	Identifier	Format	Example
Australia (AU)	Australian Company Number (ACN) or Australian Business Number (ABN)	ACN: 9 digits, or ABN: 11 digits	004028077
Singapore (SG)	Unique Entity Number (UEN)	9 or 10 characters: 8 digits + letter, 9 digits + letter (companies), or T/S/R + 2 digits + 2 letters + 4 digits + letter	199201624D
Japan (JP)	corporate number (hojin bango)	13 digits (corporate number; the first digit is a check digit), optionally with a T prefix (invoice registration number). 12-digit commercial register numbers (kaisha hojin-to bango) are not accepted because they have no check digit: look up the 13-digit corporate number at https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/	1180301018771
Taiwan (TW)	Unified Business Number (統一編號, UBN)	8 digits	22099131

Spaces, dashes and a country prefix are accepted. Legal entities only: sole traders and other natural persons are not supported, not stored and not charged. No data about people (officers, owners, contacts) is ever returned; addresses are city level only. A personal identification number found inside a name (NRIC/FIN) is replaced with [NRIC/FIN removed].

Input

{
  "country": "AU",
  "ids": [
    "004028077"
  ]
}

Up to 10,000 numbers per run.

Output (one dataset item per company, shortened)

{
  "country": "AU",
  "id": "004028077",
  "id_scheme": "AU-ACN/ABN",
  "name": "…",
  "status": "active",
  "legal_form": {
    "code": "…",
    "name": "…",
    "name_en": "…"
  },
  "address": {
    "city": "…",
    "country": "AU"
  },
  "flags": {
    "not_found": false,
    "not_active": false,
    "insolvency": false,
    "liquidation": false,
    "sanctions": false,
    "sanctions_name_match": false
  },
  "provenance": {
    "status": {
      "source": "register",
      "as_of": "2026-11-05T03:00:00+00:00"
    }
  },
  "history": [],
  "history_since": "2026-11-05",
  "sources": [
    {
      "key": "register",
      "title": "…",
      "license": "…",
      "loaded_at": "…"
    }
  ],
  "disclaimer": "… Not legal advice."
}

Use from an AI agent (MCP)

Add the Actor as a remote MCP server: https://kyb-data--apac-company-check.apify.actor/mcp with your Apify token, or through mcp.apify.com. Tools: check_company(company_id, country), check_companies(company_ids, country) (up to 50), list_sources(). In this Actor country is required: AU, SG, JP or TW.

Data licences

All data comes from official open sources under open licences; attribution (title, dataset URL, licence, loaded_at) is included in the sources field of every answer.

• ASIC Company Dataset (Australian Securities and Investments Commission): CC BY 3.0 AU — Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Company Dataset, data.gov.au
• ABN Bulk Extract (Australian Business Register): CC BY 3.0 AU — Source: Australian Business Register (ABR), ABN Lookup Bulk Extract, data.gov.au
• ASIC Banned and Disqualified Organisations Register: CC BY 3.0 AU — Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Banned and Disqualified Organisations Dataset, data.gov.au
• ASIC Australian Financial Services and Credit Licensee Registers: CC BY 3.0 AU — Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), AFS Licensee Dataset and Credit Licensee Dataset, data.gov.au
• Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA): Information on Corporate Entities (data.gov.sg): Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0 ("You can use, access, download, copy, distribute, transmit, modify and adapt the datasets, or any derived analyses or applications, whether commercially or non-commercially"; read 2026-11-05). Contains information from ACRA Information on Corporate Entities accessed monthly from data.gov.sg, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 https://data.gov.sg/open-data-licence
• National Tax Agency (Japan): Corporate Number Publication Site — basic three items (name, location, corporate number) of all corporate number holders, full monthly file plus daily change files: Public Data License 1.0 (PDL1.0, compatible with CC BY 4.0; commercial use permitted). Source: National Tax Agency Corporate Number Publication Site (国税庁法人番号公表サイト（国税庁）), https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/download/zenken/ — created by processing (加工して作成) by Company Check; not an official or unedited NTA publication. (licence text: www.digital.go.jp/en/resources/open_data/public_data_license_v1.0); publisher's terms: https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/en/riyokiyaku/; modified: normalised to the Company Check schema; street, block and building numbers, English and foreign addresses and the last 4 digits of the postcode dropped (address kept at prefecture, municipality and 3-digit postcode level); closure causes and change types translated; daily change files applied over the monthly full file
• Fiscal Information Agency, Ministry of Finance (財政部財政資訊中心): National Business (Tax) Registration dataset (全國營業(稅籍)登記資料集): Open Government Data License, version 1.0 (政府資料開放授權條款－第1版). Attribution: 財政部財政資訊中心 (Fiscal Information Agency, Ministry of Finance), 全國營業(稅籍)登記資料集 (National Business (Tax) Registration dataset), daily release (year and release date: records.fia[].attribution). The Open Data is made available to the public under the Open Government Data License, User can make use of it when complying to the condition and obligation of its terms. Open Government Data License: https://data.gov.tw/license; publisher's terms: https://data.gov.tw/dataset/9400; modified: only legal entities kept, address reduced to county and district, normalised and translated to English
• GLEIF Global LEI Index: Level 1 (LEI-CDF), Level 2 (RR-CDF), Reporting Exceptions: CC0 1.0 (GLEIF LEI Data Terms of Use, II.3: "The data available through the Access Service are provided under the CC0 licence"; read 2026-11-05)
• Official sanctions lists: US OFAC (SDN and Consolidated non-SDN), EU consolidated financial sanctions (FSF), UK Sanctions List (FCDO) — legal entities only: OFAC: US government work, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105); EU FSF: © European Union, reuse authorised with acknowledgement (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, CC BY 4.0); UK: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (FCDO) (licence text: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3)

Disclaimer

Data from official open registers and official sanctions lists, as attributed in sources, as of the load date shown. Registers can be incomplete or late. Not legal advice — verify important decisions with the original register.