The 7 Best B2B Data Providers in Australia: Behind an Information Broker (2026)

Australia has a national companies register, and then it puts a paywall and a middleman in front of it. ASIC runs the register, but a free search only confirms a company exists; the substantive data, directors, shareholders, the registered office and filed documents, is paid and resold through approved information brokers. There is no free bulk file. The one genuinely free national source is ABN Lookup, which covers every business but is thinner than a paid extract.

The reform that was meant to fix this, a single modern registry, was scrapped in 2023 after the cost ballooned, and registry duties went back to ASIC. So the market runs as it long has: two big credit bureaus, illion, the former Dun & Bradstreet arm now owned by Experian, and Equifax, the former Veda, plus a fast-growing SME challenger and the brokers who actually sell you ASIC data. This guide sorts them out.

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1. illion: the bureau formerly D&B

One of the two big Australian bureaus, with deep D&B lineage and now Experian ownership.

illion is the former Dun & Bradstreet Australia and New Zealand business, whose credit-bureau lineage in Australia runs back over a century. Sold to private equity in 2015 and rebranded illion in 2018, it was acquired by Experian in a deal that completed in September 2024. It offers commercial and consumer credit reports and scores, business risk, ABN and ACN-linked data, analytics and open-banking tools. One nuance: it can no longer sell D&B-branded global products locally, as those rights moved to Equifax.

Melbourne, Australia · Quote only · Built on: ASIC, Trade-payment data, Public records

3. Equifax Australia: the largest bureau

Australia's largest credit bureau, the former Veda, and now the local reseller of D&B global data.

Built on Veda, established in 1967 and rebranded Equifax in 2017 after the US group acquired it, Equifax is Australia's largest credit bureau, holding consumer and commercial credit files, ASIC-derived company data, scores and fraud and identity products. It is also now the exclusive Australian reseller of Dun & Bradstreet's global products, so for D&B data on international counterparties, this is the local door. The broadest bureau in the market.

Sydney, Australia · Quote only · Built on: ASIC, Trade-payment data, D&B global data

4. CreditorWatch: the SME challenger

The fast-growing challenger, built for commercial credit and real-time risk alerts on SMEs.

Founded in 2010, CreditorWatch is the commercial-credit challenger to the two bureaus, focused on B2B risk for SMEs: an approved ASIC broker with trade-payment data, court and insolvency data, monitoring and alerts and credit decisioning, serving over ten thousand customers. A pending investment from a global private-equity firm values it strongly. For real-time small-business risk and monitoring, it is the modern local pick.

Sydney, Australia · Subscription, quoted · Built on: ASIC, Court and insolvency data, Trade-payment data

5. InfoTrack: the register broker

The main paid gateway to ASIC data, and a workflow tool for legal and financial searches.

Founded in 2000, InfoTrack is an approved ASIC information broker and a search-workflow platform for the legal, conveyancing and financial sectors: ASIC company searches and extracts, property and land titles, personal-property securities and verification, all on demand and per search. Since ASIC sells its data only through brokers, InfoTrack is one of the main ways you actually obtain an official Australian company extract. A gateway and toolset, not a credit bureau.

Sydney, Australia · Per-search fees · Built on: ASIC, Land titles, PPSR

6. Dye & Durham (GlobalX): the other broker

The other major ASIC information broker, strong on property and legal-workflow searches.

Formerly GlobalX and now part of Canada's Dye & Durham, this is the other major ASIC information broker, providing company searches and extracts, property and land-title searches and legal-workflow tools since 1994. Like InfoTrack, it exists because ASIC resells its register data only through approved brokers, so it is a paid gateway to official company data and property information rather than a bureau. A practical alternative when you need ASIC data and property searches together.

Australia · Per-search fees · Built on: ASIC, Land titles, PPSR

7. Alares: the litigation monitor

A specialist early-warning signal from the courts, complementing rather than replacing a bureau.

Alares monitors court actions, litigation and insolvency across Australian federal and state courts in real time, with its own insolvency-risk scoring. It surfaces adverse events on a business earlier than a periodic bureau report, which makes it a complement to a credit file rather than a substitute. For an early-warning layer on top of your existing credit checks, it is a focused, useful specialist.

Australia · Subscription, quoted · Built on: Federal and state courts, Insolvency notices

How Australia's register stayed paywalled

Australia tried to modernise its registers, failed expensively, and left the market much as it was:

So who is still actually Australian?

The big bureaus are foreign-owned; the challenger and the brokers keep more of an Australian character:

A register you cannot get for free

ASIC runs Australia's companies register, but it does not hand it over. A free search confirms a company exists and its status; everything substantive, directors, shareholders, the registered office and filed documents, is paid, and ASIC sells it only through approved information brokers such as InfoTrack and Dye & Durham. There is no free bulk company file. The one free national source is ABN Lookup, run by the tax office, which covers every business with an ABN and returns identity, GST status and trading names, but not directors, shareholders or financials.

The attempt to modernise all this into a single open registry collapsed in 2023 under a spiralling cost, and duties returned to ASIC, so the paid, broker-fronted model persists. That is why the credit bureaus and brokers on this page are how Australians actually get company data at any depth. Check the free source here:

• ABN Lookup : The free national register of every ABN holder: identity, GST status and trading names.
• ASIC registers : The companies register. Free existence check only; extracts and documents are paid via brokers.
• ASIC information brokers : The approved brokers, such as InfoTrack and Dye & Durham, through which ASIC data is actually sold.

Four questions before you sign anything

1. Do you need a credit score, or an official extract? For a credit judgement, illion, Equifax or CreditorWatch. For an official ASIC extract with directors and shareholders, you go through a broker like InfoTrack. They are different products bought in different places.

2. Is the free ABN data enough? ABN Lookup is free and covers every business, but only identity, GST status and trading names. If that is all you need, start there before paying a broker for an ASIC extract.

3. Do you want early warning, not just a snapshot? A bureau report is periodic. If you need to catch court actions and insolvency early, a monitoring specialist like Alares complements a credit file rather than replacing it.

4. Do you need D&B global data? In Australia, D&B global products are now resold by Equifax, not illion. If your workflow depends on D&B international data, that changes which door you knock on.

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