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Identity verification
built for Guyana Flag of Guyana

Guyana ID Card and Passport verified with biometric liveness and AML screening across 1,300+ global lists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, built for the Caribbean's fastest-growing oil economy.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Guyana.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Guyana's rapidly expanding economy has attracted an uptick in synthetic-identity fraud targeting new fintech onboarding, cross-border identity fraud from Venezuela and Brazil remittance corridors, and PEP risk through the National Assembly and government-owned enterprise networks. The CANU wanted list adds a narcotics-enforcement dimension unique to the jurisdiction. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (as amended)
  • Financial Institutions Act 1995 (as amended)
  • Proceeds of Crime Act 2009
  • Data Protection Act 2023
  • CFATF Mutual Evaluation
  • FATF Methodology 2022
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Guyana.

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

    Central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, cambios, and money-services businesses. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009.

  • FIU Guyana

    Financial Intelligence Unit of Guyana, receives suspicious-transaction reports and coordinates with CFATF on AML enforcement. Maintains the national financial-crime intelligence database.

  • CANU

    Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit, maintains the wanted-persons list relevant to narcotics-related AML and fraud-screening flows. A key enforcement watchlist for Guyanese screening.

  • CFATF

    Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, the FATF-style regional body. Guyana is a member and subject to mutual evaluation and follow-up under FATF methodology.

  • GRA

    Guyana Revenue Authority, administers tax registration and the National Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) used in KYB and treasury-identity flows.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

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

Capture and read the National ID or Passport.

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

  • National Registration Identity Card (NRIC), Passport (chip read on biometric passports), Work Permit, and Driving Licence.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
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Stage 01Capture and read the National ID or Passport
  • National Registration Identity Card (NRIC)
  • Passport, chip read on biometric e-Passport
  • Work Permit
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 Guyana watchlists:

  • National Assembly of Guyana, PEP Level 1 legislative register
  • The Colorado Bar (Guyana), SIP enforcement register
  • Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), wanted-persons warnings
  • FIU Guyana, Financial Intelligence Unit enforcement list
  • Bank of Guyana, administrative sanctions and regulatory actions
  • CFATF, Caribbean Financial Action Task Force mutual evaluations
  • FATF, Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
  • UN Security Council, consolidated sanctions list
  • OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals
  • Interpol, Caribbean-region red notices
  • FinCEN, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network advisories
  • Basel AML Index, Guyana country risk tier

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

Database validation against the General Registrar.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Guyana currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the General Registrar's Office does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Database validation against the General Registrar

Database validation against the General Registrar , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Guyana 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 Guyana.

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 Guyana.

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.

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. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
  • Flexibility. One /v3/ Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.

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

Which regulators govern identity verification for digital onboarding in Guyana?

Five authorities sit on top of every Guyanese identity-verification flow:

  • Bank of Guyana, prudential supervisor for commercial banks, cambios, and money-services businesses. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009.
  • Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Guyana, receives suspicious-transaction reports and coordinates with CFATF.
  • Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), maintains the wanted-persons list critical for narcotics-related AML screening.
  • Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), the FATF-style regional body. Guyana is subject to mutual evaluation.
  • Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), administers TIN registration used in KYB and treasury-identity flows.

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

Is Didit ready for Bank of Guyana-supervised KYC under the AML/CFT Act 2009?

Yes. The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (as amended) and Bank of Guyana guidelines require every supervised institution to verify customer identity and screen for AML risk before onboarding.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Guyanese watchlists, National Assembly PEP register, CANU wanted list, FIU enforcement list.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the AML/CFT Act 2009 periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit for Guyana?

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 + Passive 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, Aider, 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 Guyana stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

What does the Guyana 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. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

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

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