Official company records for Singapore, on demand

Singapore companies and business entities are registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), the regulator for business registration, financial reporting, public accountants and corporate service providers. Registration, filing and information products all run through Bizfile, ACRA's online portal; the current portal launched on 9 December 2024.

Every registered entity carries a Unique Entity Number (UEN), the standard identifier for transacting with Singapore government agencies since 1 January 2009. Local companies retain their ACRA registration number as their UEN in the format yyyynnnnnX, ten characters beginning with the year of incorporation, while registered businesses use a nine-character number in the format nnnnnnnnX.

The register's standard extract is the Business Profile, which states an entity's UEN, name, incorporation date, business activities, registered address, issued and paid-up share capital and the particulars of officers, shareholders and the audit firm. Financial statements are filed with ACRA itself, in full XBRL for most companies and simplified XBRL for smaller companies that are not publicly accountable; solvent exempt private companies and qualifying dormant companies are exempt from filing. Beneficial ownership sits outside the public record: registers of registrable controllers are lodged with ACRA's central register, which is available to law enforcement agencies only. Company Records resolves beneficial ownership by following the shareholders listed in the Business Profile up the ownership chain, entity by entity, so the closed controllers register does not prevent UBO identification.