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Cédula de Identidad and Pasaporte on one session, cross-checked against the Registro Civil — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Ecuador.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Ecuadorian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Cédula attacks on the SB-licensed digital wallets and cooperatives that drove rapid financial inclusion through DeUna! and similar rails, Cédula document forgery across the chip and legacy formats, and AML pressure on the dollarised cash-remittance corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Ley Orgánica de Prevención, Detección y Erradicación del Delito de Lavado de Activos
  • LOPDP (Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales, 2021)
  • JPRF Resolución 011-2014-F (CDD)
  • Código Orgánico Monetario y Financiero
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Ecuador.

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

    Superintendencia de Bancos — prudential supervisor for banks, financial cooperatives and private financial entities. Sets remote-onboarding rules and Customer Due Diligence under JPRF Resoluciones.

  • SCVS

    Superintendencia de Compañías, Valores y Seguros — securities, capital-market and insurance supervisor. Registers broker-dealers and investment funds.

  • UAFE

    Unidad de Análisis Financiero y Económico — Ecuador's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Inusuales e Injustificadas (ROII) under the Ley Orgánica.

  • SPDP

    Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales — LOPDP (Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales, 2021) supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Ecuadorian residents.

  • Registro Civil

    Dirección General de Registro Civil, Identificación y Cedulación — civil-registry authority. Issues every Cédula de Identidad and serves as the authoritative-source database for identity verification.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Ecuador 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.

  • Cédula de Identidad (chip and legacy), Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros, Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and driving licence.
  • Returns the name, Cédula, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
Read the docs
Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Cédula de Identidad
  • Cédula de Identidad para Extranjeros
  • Pasaporte — chip read on e-Passport
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.
Read the docs
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 Ecuadorian watchlists:

  • ECSRI — Ecuador Internal Revenue Service (SIE) — Servicio de Rentas Internas enforcement actions and state-entity flags.
  • ECPN-MW — National Police of Ecuador, Most Wanted (SIP) — national police most-wanted and person-of-interest register.
  • National Assembly of Ecuador — PEP register — Asambleístas and senior legislative-branch officials.
  • National Electoral Council (CNE) — PEP register — senior electoral-authority officials.
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs — PEP register — senior foreign-ministry and diplomatic officials.
  • Ministry of Finance — PEP register — senior finance-ministry and treasury officials.
  • Ministry of the Interior — PEP register — senior interior-ministry officials.
  • Ministry of Transportation and Public Works — Warnings — enforcement warnings from the transport regulator.

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

Read the docs
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

Cross-check against the Registro Civil.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Cédula check (ecu_cedula, $0.20) is the authoritative-source lookup — hits the Registro Civil for identification number, full name, marital status, profession, education, formatted address, parents' and spouse names. No consent required.
  • Among the cheapest authoritative-source checks in LATAM, with one of the richest payloads.
Read the docs
Stage 04Cross-check against the Registro Civil

Cross-check against the Registro Civil — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Ecuador document Didit accepts.

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

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