What this page covers

Periodic and event-driven returns that AFS licensees, credit licensees and companies lodge directly with ASIC under the Corporations Act 2001 and the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009: AFS licensee annual accounts and audit reports, the credit licensee annual compliance certificate, breach reporting of reportable situations, OTC derivative transaction reporting, short position reporting, companies' Chapter 2M annual financial reports, and registered schemes' compliance plan audit reports. Left out: AUSTRAC's anti-money-laundering reporting (a separate regulator), market operator and market integrity rules reporting (not verified live this round, see gaps), the electronic lodgment route some listed entities use with their market operator instead of ASIC directly, auditor and liquidator registration statements, superannuation prudential returns APRA also collects, and ASIC's own registers and search services (which hold the data but are not a return a firm files). Source

How firms file

ASIC Regulatory Portal
Where AFS licensees submit their annual financial statements (Form FS70, with Form FS71 attached) and lodge a reportable situation report in the form ASIC prescribes. Source
Australian Credit Register Portal
Where a credit licensee logs in, from its annual compliance date, to complete and submit its annual compliance certificate. Source

The returns (7)

Plain name first, the ASIC's code in brackets. Each return has its own page: what it is for, who files it, the deadline, the templates, the validation rules, the documents and the sources.

Return	Group	How often	Format	Status
AFS licensee annual accounts and audit report (FS70 / FS71)	Group: Licensee financial requirements	How often: Yearly	Format: Web form, PDF	In force
Credit licensee annual compliance certificate (CL50)	Group: Credit licensee obligations	How often: Yearly	Format: Web form	In force
Breach reporting (Reportable situations report)	Group: Licensee conduct obligations	How often: When an event happens	Format: Web form	In force
OTC derivative transaction reporting	Group: Markets and derivatives	How often: When an event happens	Format: XML	In force
Short position reporting	Group: Markets and derivatives	How often: Daily	Format: Other	In force
Company annual financial report (388)	Group: Company financial reporting	How often: Yearly	Format: Web form	In force
Compliance plan audit report (5111)	Group: Managed investment schemes	How often: Yearly	Format: PDF	In force

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Data the ASIC publishes from the returns

Short position reports
Added up across firms · Other
The total of all short positions reported for each product, published for every reporting day, four days after that day (T+4), with no seller identified. Source
From: Short position report
Reuse: Short selling position reporting data is one of the 10 classes of ASIC content covered by the CC BY 4.0 permission in ASIC's copyright and linking terms, so these published totals may be reproduced and redistributed with attribution; see the licence section.
Company annual financial reports (Chapter 2M)
Firm by firm · PDF
Copies of financial reports, directors' reports and auditor's reports lodged under Chapter 2M, available to any person who inspects them or asks ASIC for a copy. Source
From: 388, 5111
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What could not be verified

Said plainly, so nobody relies on a fact the sources do not give.

ASIC's market integrity rules (for example the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Securities Markets) 2017) appear to require market participants to lodge a periodic return, such as an Annual Audited Return, but the current rule book's text was not read live this round within the request budget, so no market integrity rules return is built here.
Regulatory Guide 78, last updated 21 October 2026, describes the investigation-continuation trigger for a reportable situation as running for 'more than 60 days', but the Corporations Act and National Consumer Credit Protection Act text available on the Federal Register of Legislation on the day of this build (compiled 19 September 2026 and 1 July 2026) still reads 'more than 30 days'. Both figures are recorded in the reportable situations return; which one currently binds a licensee was not resolved further.
Whether a credit licensee's lodged annual compliance certificate is covered by any public-inspection or confidentiality rule under the National Consumer Credit Protection Act was not checked; only the Corporations Act's own document-inspection rule (s1274), which does not apply to that Act, was read.
A limited AFS licensee that does not deal with client money can lodge an annual compliance certificate (Form FS76) instead of an audited profit and loss statement and balance sheet; this alternative is noted in the AFS licensee accounts and audit return's who_files text but is not built as a separate return.
An entity that must prepare a sustainability report lodges a related Form 398 alongside its Chapter 2M return; this is noted in that return's templates text but Form 398 itself is not built as a separate return.
AUSTRAC's anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism-financing reporting, ASIC's auditor and liquidator registration statements, and APRA's prudential returns from dually regulated entities were all left out of scope, as they are either a different regulator's return or outside this round's brief.

Sources

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Last checked 13 November 2026.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC): regulatory returns