Identity verification
built for Lebanon 
Lebanese National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against Internal Security Forces National Sanctions List and global watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Lebanon.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Lebanese identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks targeting BdL-licensed payment institutions and money transfer operators amid the ongoing liquidity crisis, National ID Card and Hawiyye template forgery across multiple document generations, and AML pressure on correspondent banking and remittance corridors under SIC designations, OFAC Lebanon sanctions programmes, and US Treasury counter-Hezbollah measures. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law No. 318 of 2001 on Anti-Money Laundering (as amended by Law No. 44 of 2015)
- Money and Credit Act, Legislative Decree No. 13513 of 1963 (as amended)
- Law No. 81 of 2018 on Personal Data Protection
- BdL Basic Circular No. 83 on AML/CFT, customer due diligence requirements
- Law No. 547 of 1996 on Counter-Terrorism Financing
- MENAFATF 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body)
Who supervises identity verification in Lebanon.
BdL
Banque du Liban, Central Bank of Lebanon. Primary prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, and money transfer operators under the Money and Credit Act (Legislative Decree No. 13513 of 1963 as amended).
SIC
Special Investigation Commission, Lebanon's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 318 of 2001 on Anti-Money Laundering and maintains Lebanon's national sanctions list; receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
HBC
Higher Banking Commission, enforces BdL circulars on customer due diligence, AML, and correspondent-banking risk. Issues enforcement actions against non-compliant licensed entities.
ISF
Internal Security Forces, Lebanese national police. Administers the National Sanctions List and law-enforcement designations applicable to financial institutions.
DPA
Data Protection Authority, enforces Law No. 81 of 2018 on Personal Data Protection. Governs how identity verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed on Lebanese residents.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Lebanese National ID Card (Hawiyye), Passport, Driving Licence, and Residence Permit.
- Returns: full name, civil registry number, date of birth, place of origin, nationality, expiry.
- National ID Card (Hawiyye)
- Passport, NFC chip read on biometric series
- Driving Licence · Residence Permit
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 Lebanon watchlists:
- Internal Security Forces, National Sanctions List, Lebanon's primary law-enforcement designations applicable to financial institutions.
- Special Investigation Commission (SIC), designated persons, AML-designated entities under Law No. 318 of 2001 on Anti-Money Laundering.
- Banque du Liban, Higher Banking Commission enforcement actions, regulatory sanctions against licensed banks and payment institutions.
- OFAC SDN List, Lebanon Hizballah and Iran sanctions programmes, US Treasury designations targeting terror-financing and sanctions evasion in Lebanon.
- UN Security Council, Consolidated List, ISIL/Al-Qaida and related designations transposed in Lebanon.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, Lebanon-specific measures under EU Council regulations.
- MENAFATF regional designated entities, Middle East and North Africa FATF-body guidance and named entities.
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.
Cross-check the identity at scale.
- There is no public government database validation API for Lebanon currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Directorate General of Personal Status does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative BdL- and SIC-compliant path today: the civil registry number is OCR-parsed from the Hawiyye, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Lebanese regulatory watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as BdL-authorised data partners onboard.
Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Lebanon document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Lebanon.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Lebanon.
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:
- Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts.
- Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup.
- Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes.
- User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second inference, 48+ languages with full right-to-left support.
- Flexibility. One API composes 25+ modules across KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening.
- AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery.
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, $0.20 per AML Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match.
Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises.
Which Lebanese regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three bodies govern every Lebanese identity-verification flow:
- Banque du Liban (BdL), primary prudential supervisor for banks and payment institutions under the Money and Credit Act (Legislative Decree No. 13513 of 1963). BdL Basic Circular No. 83 sets customer due diligence requirements.
- Special Investigation Commission (SIC), Lebanon's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 318 of 2001 on Anti-Money Laundering and maintains the national AML sanctions list.
- Data Protection Authority, enforces Law No. 81 of 2018 on Personal Data Protection, governing how identity data is captured, stored, and disclosed.
Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy all three, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Does Didit screen against Lebanese and OFAC sanctions lists?
Yes, on every AML Screening call.
- Didit screens against 1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
- Plus Lebanon-specific lists: Internal Security Forces National Sanctions List, SIC designated persons under Law No. 318 of 2001, and OFAC SDN Lebanon Hizballah and Iran sanctions programmes.
- AML Screening costs
$0.20per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs$0.07 per user / yearand re-checks daily, what SIC-obliged institutions need for continuous monitoring under Law No. 318 of 2001.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Lebanon?
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 + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI 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 Lebanon stack at zero cost.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.