Identity verification
built for Iceland 
Iceland's Financial Supervisory Authority (FME) mandates CDD for every regulated entity, Didit delivers ID, liveness, AML, and the $0.33 bundle at 500 free checks per month.




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How identity verification works in Iceland.
- Fraud landscape
- Iceland faces deepfake and synthetic-identity fraud pressure on its growing fintech and crypto sectors, amplified by cross-border exposure from the Schengen zone. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Act on Measures Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing No. 140/2018
- GDPR (via EEA Agreement, Act No. 90/2018)
- FATF 40 Recommendations
- MONEYVAL evaluation framework
- eIDAS 2.0 (via EEA Agreement alignment)
Who supervises identity verification in Iceland.
FME
Fjármálaeftirlitið (Financial Supervisory Authority), primary regulator for banks, payment institutions, insurers, and securities dealers. Enforces AML/CFT under Act No. 140/2018 (the AMLD transposition).
Persónuvernd
Icelandic Data Protection Authority, enforces GDPR as adopted under the EEA Agreement. Governs every identity verification conducted on Icelandic residents.
Þjóðskrá Íslands
Statistics Iceland / National Registry, issues national IDs, maintains the Kennitala personal identification number registry, and is the authoritative source of civil identity records.
Seðlabanki Íslands
Central Bank of Iceland, oversees payment systems, foreign exchange, and macro-prudential stability. Coordinates with FME on systemic financial risk.
Ríkisskattstjóri
Directorate of Internal Revenue, collects beneficial ownership and UBO information under the Company Registration Act and AML framework for tax-compliance cross-referencing.
Samkeppniseftirlitið
Icelandic Competition Authority, PEP Level 3 regulatory body whose senior officials appear in the Didit AML screening layer under FME guidance.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the Icelandic ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Vegabréf (biometric passport), Nafnskírteini (national ID card), Ökuskírteini, and EEA residence permits.
- Returns: full name, Kennitala (personal ID number), date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- Vegabréf (biometric passport), NFC chip read
- Nafnskírteini (national identity card)
- Ökuskírteini (driving licence)
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.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Iceland watchlists:
- Parliament of Iceland (Alþingi), PEP Level 1 (legislators and senior state officials).
- Supreme Court of Iceland, judgements and enforcement designations.
- Fjármálaeftirlitið (FME), regulatory warnings and enforcement notices.
- Financial Intelligence Unit Iceland (FIU-IS), SAR-derived designations.
- MONEYVAL, Council of Europe AML evaluation findings.
- FATF 40 Recommendations, risk-jurisdiction monitoring.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List, global designations (S/RES/1267 et seq.).
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), US Treasury designations.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, EEA-applicable enforcement.
- Interpol Notices, international law enforcement designations.
- Basel AML Index, annual risk-scoring for Iceland.
- Europol Most Wanted, cross-border European law enforcement.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.
Document validation, no public registry API in Iceland.
Document validation, no public registry API in Iceland , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Iceland document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Iceland.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Iceland.
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.
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, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $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 Icelandic regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three regulators sit on every Icelandic identity-verification flow:
- Fjármálaeftirlitið (FME), Financial Supervisory Authority. Enforces AML/CFT under Act No. 140/2018 (the AMLD transposition via the EEA Agreement). Sets Customer Due Diligence requirements for banks, payment institutions, and investment firms.
- Persónuvernd, Icelandic Data Protection Authority. Enforces GDPR as adopted under the EEA Agreement (Act No. 90/2018). Governs every identity verification on Icelandic residents.
- Seðlabanki Íslands, Central Bank of Iceland. Oversees payment systems and coordinates macro-prudential risk with FME.
Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy all three simultaneously, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Is there a government database validation API for Icelandic identities?
No, Iceland does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators for cross-checking national ID records or Kennitala numbers against Þjóðskrá Íslands (the National Registry).
Didit compensates with three complementary validation layers running in parallel on every session:
- Document OCR + chip read, every field on the Vegabréf or Nafnskírteini is extracted and validated against ISO/ICAO templates.
- Biometric liveness + Face Match 1:1, the selfie is confirmed live and matched against the document portrait.
- AML screening, the extracted name is screened across 1,300+ global and Icelandic watchlists (FME, FIU-IS, MONEYVAL, EU sanctions, OFAC, UN).
If an Icelandic government database API becomes available, Didit adds it to POST /v3/database-validation/ automatically, no integration changes required.
Is Didit ready for FME-compliant onboarding under Act No. 140/2018?
Yes. Iceland's Act on Measures Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing No. 140/2018 transposes the EU AML Directives into Icelandic law via the EEA Agreement and applies to every FME-supervised bank, payment institution, and investment firm.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1, document OCR + chip read for Vegabréf and Nafnskírteini.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against 1,300+ global lists plus Icelandic watchlists (FME, FIU-IS, MONEYVAL, UN, OFAC, Interpol).
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for periodic customer-review obligations under the Act.
How long does it take to integrate Didit for Iceland?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, or any coding 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 Iceland stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
What does Iceland verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check. - Passive Liveness,
$0.10. Active Liveness,$0.15. - Face Match 1:1,
$0.05. Face Search 1:N, free. - AML Screening,
$0.20per check. Ongoing AML,$0.07 per user / year.
The full KYC bundle (ID + 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.