Identity verification in Bolivia
Country: Bolivia (BO / BOL) · Region: South America · Population: ~12M · Tier: 2 Regulators: ASFI · UIF Bolivia · BCB · SEGIP · AJ · FATF status: Grey list since June 2025 Didit pricing: $0.30/verification · 500 free/month · 14,000+ document types · 220+ countries
Documents supported
(Government IDs from 220+ countries)
Average verification time
Countries covered
(Government-issued IDs validated)
Market overview
Bolivia's AML/CFT architecture rests on a short stack of laws that financial-services counsel (Ferrere Bolivia, Guevara & Gutiérrez, Moreno Baldivieso, Bufete Aguirre) consistently cite: - Ley N° 004 de Lucha Contra la Corrupción, Enriquecimiento Ilícito e Investigación de Fortunas "Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz" (31 March 2010) — the anti-corruption statute that incorporated enriquecimiento ilícito into the Penal Code and created the Consejo Nacional de Lucha Contra la Corrupción, Enriquecimiento Ilícito y Legitimación de Ganancias Ilícitas. - Ley N° 393 de Servicios Financieros (21 August 2013) — the foundational banking statute, under which ASFI supervises entidades de intermediación financiera and issues the Recopilación de Normas para Servicios Financieros (RNSF). Título XV of the RNSF i
Supported documents
Didit templates cover national IDs, passports, residence permits and regional documents — plus 14,000+ documents globally for cross-border flows.
Regulators
full name, cédula de identidad (or passport for non-residents
EBR
Reporte de Operaciones Sospechosas, ROS
Oficial de Cumplimiento
SEGIP
restricted
Manages cédula de identidad. Online appointment and status checking available but no commercial API for identity verification. Biometric data collection ongoing.
TSE (Tribunal Supremo Electoral)
restricted
Civil registry for births, marriages, deaths. Managed by the electoral tribunal. Limited digital access.
SIN
regulated
Tax authority managing NIT (Número de Identificación Tributaria). Online NIT verification available.
Government & regulated databases
Compliance framework
AML framework
Supervised by Customer identification at onboarding and periodic refresh
The Autoridad de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero (ASFI) is the technical regulator for banks, cooperatives, entidades financieras de vivienda, savings and loan, insurance companies (jointly with APS), sociedades administradoras de fondos de inversión and sociedades de titularización. ASFI enforces KYC through Título XV of the RNSF ("Legitimación de Ganancias Ilícitas y Financiamiento del Terrorismo"), accessible via the public Circular repository at `servdmzw.asfi.gob.bo/circular/textos/T15.p
Data protection
Supervised by National DPA
- Sumsub, Jumio, Veriff, Onfido, Persona — international IDV platforms with Spanish support and coverage of the Bolivian cédula. Typical pricing $1.50–$3.00 per verification on committed plans; higher on spot pricing. - Truora (Colombia) — regional footprint, focused on document verification and Wha
Penalties for non-compliance
- $0.30 per verification, 500 free every month, no contract, no minimums. The only freemium IDV platform in Bolivia.
Use cases
Neobanks, EMIs, payment institutions, lenders, brokerages.
The Banco Central de Bolivia issued Resolución de Directorio N° 144/2020 (15 December 2020), which effectively prohibited the use of crypto-assets in the national payment system. For almost four years, Bolivia was the only Latin American jurisdiction with a hard prohibition on crypto rails.
Exchanges, custodians, wallets, on/off-ramps.
Games of chance, lotteries and sports betting are regulated by Ley N° 060 (25 November 2010, Ley de Juegos de Lotería y de Azar) and its implementing regulation DS 781/2011. The Autoridad de Fiscalización del Juego (AJ), a decentralised body under the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance, is the s
Sports betting, online casinos, age-gated platforms.
SEGIP (Servicio General de Identificación Personal), created by Ley N° 145 of 2011, is the sole issuer of the cédula de identidad (CI) and of the licencia de conducir.
Gig platforms, delivery, creator economy, e-commerce.
- SERECI (Servicio de Registro Cívico), operated by the Tribunal Supremo Electoral — civil registry for births, marriages and deaths. Used to verify identity edge cases but without commercial API. - SIN (Servicio de Impuestos Nacionales) — issues the Número de Identificación Tributaria (NIT). A publ
Biometric liveness
| Method | Available | Notes | |---|---|---| | Government-database ID validation | No | SEGIP has no commercial API; QR on the CI is for possessor-triggered consultation, not B2B lookup. | | Regulated private database | No | No equivalent to a national credit bureau with identity-matching API at the consumer level. | | Document verification + biometrics | Yes | The only scalable method. Capture of CI / pasaporte / licencia, OCR + MRZ parsing, template matching, holograms, microtext, QR extractio
CERTIFICATIONS
Our platform meets the highest international standards for information security, data privacy, and biometric accuracy.
Full EU data protection compliance
Information security management
PAD (liveness + face match)
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Spanish Financial Sandbox
CNMV, SEPBLAC & Spanish Treasury — Conclusions Report
Didit is an exceptionally valuable partner, delivering a stable and highly adaptable solution”.
Vuk Adžić
Head of the E-Business Department at Crnogorski Telekom
Didit offered us a robust technology with a simple implementation and adaptability to different markets”.
Fernando Pinto
CEO & CoFounder at TucanPay
Thanks to Didit we have been able to reduce manual processes and improve data extraction accuracy”.
Diana Garcia
Trust & Safety Executive at Shiply
Didit’s integration slashed verification times and costs, freeing resources for other projects”.
Guillem Medina
COO at GBTC Finance
Didit removed KYC costs, enabling faster scaling with high verification standards and less fraud.”
Paul Martin
VP Marketing & Growth at Bondex
Didit’s secure, user-friendly verification boosts customer trust and optimizes our process.”
Cristofer Montenegro
Executive assistant to the CEO at Adelantos
Didit ensures a precise, secure digital onboarding without slowing negotiations or client time.”
Ernesto Betancourth
Gerente de riesgos at CrediDemo
FAQ
Yes. Bolivia permits remote KYC onboarding under its national AML framework, including document verification, biometric liveness and video identification where required by regulation.
Didit verifies all major national IDs, passports and residence permits issued in Bolivia, plus 14,000+ document types globally for cross-border flows.
Didit charges $0.30 per verification with 500 free checks per month. No contracts, no minimums. Competitors typically charge $1.00–$2.50+ per verification.
Yes. Didit screens against 1,000+ global watchlists including PEP databases, sanctions lists (EU, UN, OFAC, OFSI), and adverse media — covering all AML obligations in Bolivia.
Most regulated sectors in Bolivia require or strongly recommend biometric liveness detection for remote onboarding. Didit provides ISO 30107-3 PAD Level 2 certified liveness.
Yes. Didit supports document verification, liveness, AML screening and ongoing monitoring aligned with Bolivia’s crypto regulatory framework, including EU Travel Rule compliance where applicable.
Yes. Didit provides document-based age verification and identity confirmation suitable for Bolivia’s iGaming regulatory requirements.
500 free verifications per month. No contracts, no minimums. $0.30 per verification after the free tier.
