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DNI cross-checked against the RNP civil registry in real time — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, built for Central America's fast-growing remittance economy.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Honduras.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Honduras faces DNI forgery driven by remittance-account access, synthetic-identity fraud in cooperative and microfinance onboarding, and transnational organized crime creating PEP exposure across government and law enforcement. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Decreto 144-2014 — Ley Contra el Lavado de Activos (and reforms)
  • Decreto 240-2010 — Ley del Sistema Financiero
  • Decreto 170-2002 — Ley de la Comisión Nacional de Bancos y Seguros
  • Decreto 170-2014 — Ley Especial Contra el Lavado de Activos
  • GAFILAT 40 Recommendations
  • FATF Methodology 2022
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Honduras.

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

    Comisión Nacional de Bancos y Seguros — prudential supervisor for banks, cooperativas de ahorro, insurance, and securities markets. Owns KYC and AML onboarding requirements under Decreto 144-2014 (Ley Contra el Lavado de Activos).

  • UIF

    Unidad de Información Financiera — Honduras's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas under Decreto 144-2014 and coordinates with the Ministerio Público.

  • BCH

    Banco Central de Honduras — central bank. Oversees the payment system, monetary policy, and electronic-money operator licensing.

  • RNP

    Registro Nacional de las Personas — civil-registry authority. Issues the DNI and maintains the authoritative identity database queried by the `hnd_dni` service.

  • ONCAE

    Oficina Normativa de Contratación y Adquisiciones del Estado — procurement regulatory office that maintains the public exclusion list queried for KYB and treasury onboarding flows.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

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

Capture and read the DNI.

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

  • Documento Nacional de Identificación (DNI, exactly 13 digits), Pasaporte (chip read on biometric passports), Carné de Residencia, Licencia de Conducir, and Documento de Identidad de Menores.
  • Returns the name, DNI number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the DNI
  • Documento Nacional de Identificación (DNI) — 13-digit number
  • Pasaporte — chip read on biometric e-Passport
  • Carné de Residencia
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 Honduran watchlists.

  • Ministry of Interior Honduras — PEP Level 1 official register
  • Ministry of Security Honduras — PEP Level 2 register
  • ONCAE — Procurement Regulatory Office of the State of Honduras (Warnings)
  • CBC Canal 6 — adverse media (SIP)
  • CNBS — Comisión Nacional de Bancos y Seguros administrative sanctions
  • UIF — Unidad de Información Financiera suspicious-entity list
  • BCH — Banco Central de Honduras regulatory warnings
  • GAFILAT — Group of Financial Action of Latin America mutual evaluations
  • FATF — Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
  • UN Security Council — consolidated sanctions list
  • OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals
  • Interpol — regional Central America red notices

Hits are scored by severity. Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears — critical for Decreto 144-2014 periodic-review obligations.

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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

Cross-check against the RNP civil registry.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The `hnd_dni` check ($0.20 per successful query, no end-user consent required) hits the Registro Nacional de las Personas directly — document_number (exactly 13 digits, no hyphens) in, normalised identification fields out: identification_number, first_name, last_name, full_name, document_type.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the RNP civil registry

Cross-check against the RNP civil registry — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Honduras 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

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