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Azerbaijan's Financial Market Supervisory Authority and Financial Monitoring Service enforce AML/CFT across a fast-growing energy and fintech economy, Didit delivers ID, liveness, AML, and the $0.33 bundle at 500 free checks per month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Azerbaijan.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Azerbaijan faces elevated deepfake and document-forgery fraud risk tied to energy-sector wealth flows, diaspora remittances, and rapid growth in digital financial services. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law on Combating Legalization of Criminally Obtained Funds and Financing of Terrorism 2009 (as amended 2022)
  • Law on Personal Data of the Republic of Azerbaijan 2010
  • FATF 40 Recommendations
  • MONEYVAL evaluation framework
  • FMS Targeted Financial Sanctions regulations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Azerbaijan.

These are the supervisors a Azerbaijan verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them, no separate integration per agency.

  • FIMSA

    Financial Market Supervisory Authority of Azerbaijan, supervises banks, payment institutions, insurance, capital markets, and non-banking credit organisations. Enforces AML/CFT under the Law on Combating Legalization of Criminally Obtained Funds 2009 (as amended 2022).

  • FMS

    Financial Monitoring Service (Maliyyə Monitorinqi Xidməti), Azerbaijan's national FIU. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports and issues Targeted Financial Sanctions. Senior FMS officials are designated PEPs in Didit's AML screening layer.

  • Ministry of Finance

    Maliyyə Nazirliyi, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Azerbaijan. PEP Level 1 institution; issues regulatory guidance on financial sector AML compliance.

  • Central Bank of Azerbaijan

    Azərbaycan Mərkəzi Bankı, coordinates macroeconomic policy and payment system oversight. Works with FIMSA on systemic financial risk and AML/CFT enforcement.

  • Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC)

    PEP Level 3 state-invested entity, senior officials designated in Didit's AML screening layer under Azerbaijan's SIE framework.

  • Ministry of Internal Affairs

    Daxili İşlər Nazirliyi, maintains the Wanted persons list used in Didit's AML adverse-media and law enforcement screening layer.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Azerbaijan database cross-check, composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
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01 · ID

Capture and read the Azerbaijani ID.

Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi (biometric national ID with chip), Pasport (ICAO 9303 biometric passport), Sürücülük vəsiqəsi, and Yaşayış icazəsi.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the Azerbaijani ID
  • Şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi (biometric national ID card)
  • Pasport (biometric passport), NFC chip read
  • Sürücülük vəsiqəsi (driving licence)
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows, user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Azerbaijan watchlists:

  • Ministry of Finance of Republic of Azerbaijan, PEP Level 1 (senior finance officials).
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), PEP Level 3 (state-invested institution).
  • Azerbaijan Investment Company (AIC), PEP Level 3 (state-owned investment body).
  • Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC), PEP Level 3 (state media officials).
  • Azerbaijan Financial Monitoring Service, Targeted Financial Sanctions.
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs Azerbaijan, Wanted persons list.
  • FMS (Financial Monitoring Service), SAR-derived AML designations.
  • MONEYVAL, Council of Europe AML evaluation findings.
  • FATF 40 Recommendations, risk-jurisdiction monitoring.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List, global designations.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), US Treasury designations.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, cross-border applicable enforcement.
  • Interpol Notices, international law enforcement designations.
  • Basel AML Index, annual risk-scoring for Azerbaijan.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Document validation, no public registry API in Azerbaijan.

There is no public government database validation API for Azerbaijan currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Dövlət Miqrasiya Xidməti (State Migration Service) civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Document validation, no public registry API in Azerbaijan

Document validation, no public registry API in Azerbaijan , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Azerbaijan document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Azerbaijan.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
aml-screening

AML lists screened in Azerbaijan

1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.

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Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter, the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Azerbaijan.

What is Didit?

Didit is infrastructure for identity and fraud, the platform we wished existed when we were building products ourselves: open, flexible, and developer-friendly, so it works as a real part of your stack instead of a black box you integrate around.

One API covers verifying people (KYC, know your customer), verifying businesses (KYB, know your business), screening crypto wallets (KYT, know your transaction), and monitoring transactions in real time, on a stack built to be:

  • Fast, sub-2-second p99 on every session
  • Reliable, in production with 1,500+ companies across 220+ countries
  • Secure, SOC 2 Type 1, ISO 27001, GDPR-native, and formally attested by Spain's financial regulator as safer than verifying someone in person

The footprint underneath: 14,000+ document types in 48+ languages, 1,000+ data sources, and 200+ fraud signals on every session. The Didit infrastructure dynamically learns from every session and gets better every day.

What does Didit ship?

Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:

  • User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
  • Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
  • Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.

Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.

What does it cost? Is anything actually free?

500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.

Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.

Which Azerbaijani regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Two primary regulators sit on every Azerbaijani identity-verification flow:

  • FIMSA (Financial Market Supervisory Authority), supervises banks, payment institutions, and non-banking financial organisations. Enforces the Law on Combating Legalization of Criminally Obtained Funds 2009 (as amended 2022).
  • FMS (Financial Monitoring Service), Azerbaijan's national FIU. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports and issues Targeted Financial Sanctions.

Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy both simultaneously.

Is there a government database validation API for Azerbaijani identities?

No, Azerbaijan does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators for civil registry cross-checks.

Didit compensates with three complementary validation layers:

  • Document OCR + chip read, every field on the Şəxsiyyət vəsiqəsi or Pasport is extracted and validated against ISO/ICAO templates.
  • Biometric liveness + Face Match 1:1, the selfie is confirmed live and matched against the document portrait.
  • AML screening, the extracted name is screened across 1,300+ global and Azerbaijani watchlists (FMS Targeted Sanctions, Ministry of Internal Affairs Wanted list, MONEYVAL, OFAC, UN, Interpol).
Is Didit ready for FIMSA-compliant onboarding under Azerbaijan's AML law?

Yes. Azerbaijan's Law on Combating Legalization of Criminally Obtained Funds and Financing of Terrorism 2009 (as amended 2022) applies to every FIMSA-supervised bank and payment institution.

Didit covers the full stack:

  • Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for tier-1 onboarding.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against 1,300+ lists including FMS Targeted Financial Sanctions, Ministry of Internal Affairs Wanted list, MONEYVAL findings, OFAC SDN, and UN sanctions.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for periodic customer-review obligations.
How long does it take to integrate Didit for Azerbaijan?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, or any coding agent.
  • Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.

The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever.

What does Azerbaijan verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15.
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.

The full KYC bundle is `$0.33`, same price worldwide. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card.

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