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Identity verification
built for Italy Flag of Italy

Carta d'Identità Elettronica, passport and Permesso di Soggiorno on one Banca d'Italia-aligned session, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Italy.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Italian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-CIE attacks on Milan's neobank cluster and OAM-registered VASPs, sophisticated forgery of the Permesso di Soggiorno residence permit on the Mediterranean migration corridor, and identity-swap fraud on the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM)-licensed iGaming market. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • D.Lgs. 231/2007 (Italian AML Decree)
  • Banca d'Italia AML Provision
  • OAM Registry (VASP)
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • DORA
  • GDPR / Italian Privacy Code (D.Lgs. 196/2003)
  • eIDAS 2.0 / SPID
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Italy.

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

    Banca d'Italia, Italian central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, electronic money institutions and OAM-registered virtual asset service providers.

  • Consob

    Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa, securities supervisor for investment firms, fund managers and the MiCA-supervised crypto-asset service provider regime.

  • IVASS

    Istituto per la Vigilanza sulle Assicurazioni, Italian insurance supervisor. Co-supervises AML / CTF compliance for life-insurance and investment-linked policies.

  • UIF

    Unità di Informazione Finanziaria per l'Italia (at Banca d'Italia), Italy's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under D.Lgs. 231/2007.

  • Garante Privacy

    Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Italian data-protection authority. Supervises GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and the Italian Privacy Code.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Italy 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.

  • Carta d'Identità Elettronica (the post-2016 polycarbonate card with NFC chip), Italian passport (with NFC chip read on e-Passports), Permesso di Soggiorno, Patente di guida, Tessera Sanitaria / Codice Fiscale, and every EU/EEA national identity card.
  • Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of birth, Codice Fiscale (where available), nationality, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carta d'Identità Elettronica (CIE)
  • Italian passport, NFC e-Passport
  • Permesso di Soggiorno · Patente · Tessera Sanitaria
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 Italian watchlists:

  • Italy Italian Companies and Exchange Commission Warnings, formal warnings and enforcement alerts for Italian capital-market participants.
  • CONSOB (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa), securities-market supervisor enforcement decisions and administrative sanctions.
  • ITGPDP (Italian Data Protection Authority / Garante), data-protection enforcement decisions with binding financial penalties.
  • House of Representatives of Italy, PEP register, Camera dei Deputati members (PEP Level 1).
  • Città di Castenaso, PEP register, municipal officials captured in the sub-national PEP registry.
  • Il Caffè Geopolitico, SIP, adverse-media reference list for Italy-connected entities and individuals.
  • UIF (Unità di Informazione Finanziaria), Bank of Italy Financial Intelligence Unit suspicious-transaction bulletins, AML typology alerts and STR analytics under D.Lgs. 231/2007.
  • Guardia di Finanza, financial-crime enforcement and fiscal-police sanction register, Italian financial-police investigations, asset-freeze orders, and criminal-sanction notices.
  • Hits are scored by severity, a Camera dei Deputati member surfaces as a PEP Level 1, a regional president as PEP Level 2, sanctions as critical.
  • 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.
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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 Italian residential and credit data.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Consumer check (ita_consumer, $0.08, ~5% coverage) is the lead-generation database lookup against name + DOB.
  • The Residential check (ita_residential, $0.30, >75% coverage) confirms address presence, name + DOB + address cross-check.
  • The Credit-bureau checks (ita_credit_bureau, $1.95, ~80% coverage, requires Codice Fiscale; ita_credit_bureau_2, $1.60, >50% coverage) cross-check against Italian credit-header data, useful for Banca d'Italia-supervised lenders, neobanks running underwriting, and D.Lgs. 231/2007 enhanced due diligence.
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Stage 04Cross-check against Italian residential and credit data

Cross-check against Italian residential and credit data , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Italy 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 Italy.

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.

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 Italian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Five sit on top of every Italian identity-verification flow:

  • Banca d'Italia, central bank and prudential supervisor. Sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, payment institutions, EMIs and OAM-registered VASPs under D.Lgs. 231/2007 and the Banca d'Italia AML Provision.
  • Consob (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa), securities supervisor for investment firms and MiCA-supervised crypto-asset service providers.
  • IVASS (Istituto per la Vigilanza sulle Assicurazioni), insurance supervisor. Co-supervises AML / CTF for life-insurance and investment-linked policies.
  • UIF (Unità di Informazione Finanziaria per l'Italia) at Banca d'Italia, Italy's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under D.Lgs. 231/2007.
  • Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Garante Privacy), supervises GDPR + the Italian Privacy Code (D.Lgs. 196/2003) enforcement nationally.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the 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.

Does Didit cross-check Italian identities against the credit bureau?

Yes, via two Database Validation services (POST /v3/database-validation/).

  • `ita_credit_bureau`, Italian consumer credit-bureau header data (Codice Fiscale-keyed). ~80% coverage, $1.95 per successful query. Inputs: first_name, last_name, address, tax_number (Codice Fiscale).
  • `ita_credit_bureau_2`, Alternate Italian credit-bureau provider. >50% coverage, $1.60 per successful query. Inputs: first_name, last_name, address, phone.

For address verification, `ita_residential` ($0.30, >75% coverage) is the authoritative residential dataset; `ita_consumer` ($0.08, ~5% coverage) covers lead-generation. All four are documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/italy/.

Is Didit ready for Banca d'Italia-aligned D.Lgs. 231/2007 Customer Due Diligence?

Yes. Every Customer Due Diligence (CDD) pillar under D.Lgs. 231/2007 (the Italian AML Decree) maps to a Didit module on one Application Programming Interface (API):

  • Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • Carta d'Identità Elettronica + passport chip-read and OCR parsing, the source check Banca d'Italia expects.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Italian regulatory watchlists (Consob Warnings, Garante Privacy, parliamentary PEP registers).
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under Art. 18 D.Lgs. 231/2007.
  • KYB with Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) resolution + linked KYC per UBO for the Registro dei Titolari Effettivi beneficial-ownership pillar at the Camera di Commercio.
  • eIDAS 2.0 / SPID-aligned, Didit's Reusable Identity issues credentials in both mso_mdoc (EUDI Wallet format) and Selective Disclosure JSON Web Token Verifiable Credentials (SD-JWT-VC).
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Italy?

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 + Residential database, 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. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test.
  • 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 Italy stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Italian users?

Italian, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Italian users land on the Italian flow by default. English, German, French, and Albanian are also live on the same flow for cross-border or expat users (Albanian is the largest immigrant community in Italy).

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 Italy 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.
  • `ita_consumer`, $0.08. `ita_residential`, $0.30.
  • `ita_credit_bureau`, $1.95 (Codice Fiscale-keyed). `ita_credit_bureau_2`, $1.60.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Italy surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

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

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