Identity verification
built for Madagascar 
Madagascar Carte d'Identité Nationale and Passport on one session, screened against SAMIFIN, Banky Foiben'i Madagasikara, and global AML watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Madagascar.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Malagasy identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money platforms and digital-banking expansion, CIN forgery across the older paper and newer biometric card formats, and cross-border AML risk on the Comoros, Mozambique, and Indian Ocean island corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law 2014-005 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing
- Law 2016-056 on Banking
- Decree 2015-1036 on AML/CFT implementation
- Madagascar Cybercrime Law 2014-006
- ESAAMLG Mutual Evaluation recommendations
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Madagascar.
BFM
Banky Foiben'i Madagasikara, Central Bank of Madagascar. Prudential supervisor for commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and electronic-money institutions.
SAMIFIN
Sampan'Asa Miady amin'ny Famotsiam-bola sy ny Fandrahonan-karena, Madagascar's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law 2014-005 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
CSBF
Commission de Supervision Bancaire et Financière, banking and financial supervision commission operating under the Central Bank. Sets AML/CFT compliance requirements for supervised entities.
CNAPS
Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale, national social security fund that manages civil registration data relevant to identity verification in Madagascar.
Ministry of Justice
Enforces personal-data-protection obligations applicable to identity-verification services processing biometric and documentary data on Malagasy residents.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Carte d'Identité Nationale (CIN), Passport (MRZ parsed), driving licence, and residence permit for foreign residents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
- Carte d'Identité Nationale (CIN)
- Passport, MRZ parsed
- 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 Malagasy watchlists:
- National Assembly of Madagascar, Members of Parliament (PEP Level 1) and senior executive-branch officials.
- UNICEF Madagascar, multilateral-organisation officials and associated persons in Madagascar.
- SAMIFIN, warning notices, enforcement actions issued by Madagascar's Financial Intelligence Unit under Law 2014-005 on AML/CFT.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions, active multilateral designations covering Madagascar-linked entities.
- OFAC SDN List, US Treasury Specially Designated Nationals with Madagascar nexus.
- ESAAMLG, Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group regional risk signals.
- Interpol Southern Africa, wanted-persons and fugitive notices relevant to the Indian Ocean and Southern Africa region.
- FATF 40 Recommendations, grey-list and black-list designations.
- Basel AML Index, country risk score and associated risk signals.
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.
Database validation.
- There is no public government database validation API for Madagascar currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Ministry of the Interior civil-registration system does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Madagascar document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Madagascar.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Madagascar.
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 Malagasy regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Four bodies govern every Malagasy identity-verification flow:
- Banky Foiben'i Madagasikara (BFM), Central Bank of Madagascar, prudential supervisor for banks, microfinance institutions, and electronic-money institutions.
- SAMIFIN, Madagascar's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law 2014-005 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
- CSBF, Commission de Supervision Bancaire et Financière, banking and financial supervisor with AML/CFT compliance requirements.
- Ministry of Justice, enforces personal-data-protection obligations governing how identity-verification data is processed on Malagasy residents.
Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Madagascar?
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, 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 Madagascar stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
What does the Madagascar 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 (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Madagascar surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.