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Identity verification
built for Cape Verde Flag of Cape Verde

Bilhete de Identidade and Passport on one session, screened against Cape Verdean and GIABA watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Cape Verde.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Cape Verdean identity fraud: tourism-corridor identity fraud on the hotel, rental, and fintech onboarding flows, remittance-channel fraud targeting the large diaspora in Portugal, the Netherlands, and the United States, and drug-transshipment AML exposure across the mid-Atlantic trade route that Cape Verde sits astride. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law 31/VIII/2013 on AML/CFT (Cape Verde)
  • BCV Instruction No. 1/2018 on KYC and customer due diligence for banks
  • GIABA mutual-evaluation framework
  • Lei n.º 133/V/2001 on Data Protection (as amended)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Cape Verde.

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

    Banco de Cabo Verde, central bank and primary supervisor for banks, payment-service providers, and money-transfer operators. Issues KYC and AML circulars binding on all licensed institutions.

  • UIF

    Unidade de Informação Financeira Cabo Verde, the Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives and analyses Suspicious Transaction Reports under Law 31/VIII/2013 on AML/CFT.

  • GIABA

    Groupe Intergouvernemental d'Action contre le Blanchiment d'Argent en Afrique de l'Ouest, the FATF-style regional body for West Africa. Cape Verde is a full GIABA member; mutual evaluations set the regional AML/CFT compliance baseline.

  • ISSF

    Instituto de Supervisão do Sistema Financeiro, insurance and securities supervisor progressively taking over non-banking financial supervision from BCV.

  • CNPD

    Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, the data protection authority. Enforces personal-data protection rules governing identity-verification data collection and processing in Cape Verde.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

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

Capture and read the ID.

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

  • Bilhete de Identidade (BI), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driver's Licence, and Autorização de Residência for foreign nationals.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Bilhete de Identidade (National ID Card)
  • Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • Driver's Licence · Autorização de Residência
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 Cape Verde watchlists:

  • Government of Cape Verde, PEP Level 1 senior executive officials.
  • Bank of Cape Verde (BCV), Warnings and regulatory enforcement register.
  • UIF Cabo Verde, STR enforcement register and financial-crime watchlist.
  • GIABA, West Africa FATF-style regional body watchlist covering Cape Verde and ECOWAS member states.
  • FATF, Financial Action Task Force global standards watchlist.
  • ECOWAS, Economic Community of West African States regional designations.
  • Interpol West Africa, international law enforcement cooperation register.
  • Basel AML Index, Cape Verde country-risk scoring.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions, global designations.
  • OFAC SDN List, global designations including Atlantic transshipment nexus.

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

Bind every check to one audited session.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Cape Verde currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Conservatória dos Registos Notariais e Civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Cape Verde 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 Cape Verde.

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.
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 Cape Verde.

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.

How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?

Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:

  • Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and native SDKs for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages.
  • Flexibility. One /v3/ API composes 25+ modules across KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay.

Common in fintech, tourism, and remittance, the same architecture fits marketplaces, hospitality, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.

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, $0.20 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 Cape Verdean regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Three sit on top of every Cape Verdean identity-verification flow:

  • Banco de Cabo Verde (BCV), central bank and supervisor. Sets KYC and AML requirements for banks and payment-service providers under BCV Instruction No. 1/2018 and the underlying Law 31/VIII/2013 on AML/CFT.
  • UIF Cabo Verde, Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under Law 31/VIII/2013.
  • GIABA, the West Africa FATF-style regional body. Cape Verde is a full member; GIABA mutual evaluations guide the AML/CFT compliance standard every regulated entity must meet.

Personal-data handling is governed by the Lei n.º 133/V/2001 on Data Protection (as amended), enforced by the CNPD.

Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy all three at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

How does Didit handle verification for the large Cape Verdean diaspora?

The diaspora flow routes through the same hosted session as in-country users, no separate integration needed.

The Cape Verdean diaspora, predominantly in Portugal, the Netherlands, France, and the United States, presents Cape Verdean Bilhetes de Identidade and passports as their primary identity documents. Didit:

  • Captures and OCR-parses Cape Verdean BIs and passports (MRZ + chip read on e-Passports) on any device, globally.
  • Runs Active Liveness + Face Match to anchor the session to a live biometric regardless of where the user is located.
  • Screens against 1,300+ global lists including GIABA, FATF, UN Security Council, and OFAC SDN sources.

The same POST /v3/session/ endpoint and workflow handles both in-country and diaspora users, no country-specific configuration needed.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Cape Verde?

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 that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, or Replit Agent.
  • Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.

The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Cape Verde stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Cape Verdean users?

Portuguese, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Cape Verdean users land on Portuguese by default (the sole official language), with Cape Verdean Creole support available through the Portuguese flow.

The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in any language, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.

What does the Cape Verde 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 (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Cape Verde surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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