Identity verification
built for Malaysia 
MyKad and Malaysian e-Passport on one session, cross-checked against the JPN national registry and credit-bureau header data, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Malaysia.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Malaysian identity fraud: deepfake injection against the BNM-mandated e-KYC flows on mobile banking and DAX onboarding, organised forgery of legacy MyKad and MyPR cards in the migrant-worker remittance corridors, and synthetic-identity mule farming against DuitNow-connected wallets. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AMLA 2001 (Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act)
- PDPA 2010 (Personal Data Protection Act)
- BNM e-KYC Policy Document (2020)
- SC Guidelines on Recognized Markets (Digital Asset Exchanges)
- Capital Markets and Services Act 2007
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Malaysia.
BNM
Bank Negara Malaysia, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, EMIs and approved-payment-system operators. Issues the e-KYC Policy Document (2020) binding on every reporting institution.
SC
Securities Commission Malaysia, securities and digital-asset supervisor. Registers Digital Asset Exchanges (DAX) and Initial Exchange Offering operators under the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007.
FIED
Financial Intelligence and Enforcement Department within Bank Negara Malaysia, Malaysia's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 (AMLA 2001).
JPDP
Jabatan Perlindungan Data Peribadi, enforces the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA 2010) and the 2024 amendments. Governs how identity-verification data is collected, processed and stored.
JPN
Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara, civil-registry authority within the Ministry of Home Affairs. Issues every MyKad, MyKid and MyPR and operates the authoritative-source database for identity verification.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- MyKad (the current chip card), MyKid (minors), MyPR (permanent residents), Malaysian Passport with the chip read on the NFC channel, and JPJ Driver's Licence.
- Returns the full name, 12-digit IC number, date of birth, sex, race, religion, and address.
- MyKad, 12-digit IC number
- MyKid · MyPR
- Malaysian Passport, NFC chip read
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.
Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Malaysian regulatory watchlist (Ministry of Home Affairs Sanction List, SC AOB Sanctions, BNM warnings, Dewan Rakyat PEP register, LFSA-ALERT, MACC).
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 against the JPN national registry.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The Malaysia National ID check (
mys_national_id,$0.16, >75% coverage) is the JPN government-sourced authoritative lookup, name, date of birth, 12-digit IC and optional address + phone are verified against the citizen-records source. - The Malaysia Credit Bureau check (
mys_credit_bureau,$0.71, >55% coverage) cross-checks against credit-header data, useful for fintech credit underwriting and BNM-licensed digital-bank onboarding.
Cross-check against the JPN national registry , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Malaysia document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Malaysia.
Malaysia — National ID (JPN registry)
Source: Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) — Malaysian citizen records. $0.16 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage >75% of adult population.
Malaysia — Credit Bureau
Source: Malaysian consumer credit-bureau header data. $0.71 per successful query. Coverage >55% of adult population.
AML lists screened in Malaysia
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Malaysia.
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 Malaysian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Four sit on top of every Malaysian identity-verification flow:
- Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, EMIs and approved-payment-system operators. Sets remote-onboarding requirements under the e-KYC Policy Document (2020).
- Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), securities and digital-asset supervisor. Registers Digital Asset Exchanges (DAX) under the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 and the SC Guidelines on Recognized Markets.
- Financial Intelligence and Enforcement Department (FIED) within BNM, Malaysia's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under AMLA 2001.
- Jabatan Perlindungan Data Peribadi (JPDP), supervises PDPA 2010 and the 2024 amendments. Governs how the verification data is captured, stored and disclosed.
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.
Does Didit cross-check Malaysian identities against the JPN national registry?
Yes, via the `mys_national_id` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/ with services=mys_national_id).
- Source: Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN), Malaysian citizen records.
- Coverage: >75% of the adult population.
- Price:
$0.16 per successful query. - Required inputs:
full_name,date_of_birth,national_id(12-digit MyKad IC number, digits only). - Returns:
identification_number,date_of_birth,address,city,postal_code,statewith match scores per field.
A second service rounds out the surface: `mys_credit_bureau` ($0.71, >55% coverage) cross-checks credit-header data, useful for fintech credit underwriting. Both are documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/malaysia/.
Is Didit ready for a BNM-licensed digital bank or SC-registered Digital Asset Exchange in Malaysia?
Yes. BNM's e-KYC Policy Document (2020) is the binding remote-onboarding framework for digital banks, EMIs and approved-payment-system operators; SC's Guidelines on Recognized Markets cover the five registered Digital Asset Exchanges in Malaysia.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
- `mys_national_id` Database Validation, the JPN source check BNM and FIED expect on every e-KYC session.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Malaysian regulatory watchlists (Ministry of Home Affairs Sanction List, SC AOB Sanctions, BNM warnings, MACC, LFSA-ALERT).
- Wallet Screening (KYT) at $0.15 per check for the on-chain exposure assessment SC-registered DAX operators need.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under AMLA 2001.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Malaysia?
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 + JPN database, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto 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 Malaysia stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Malaysian users?
Bahasa Malaysia, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Malaysian users land on the Bahasa Malaysia flow by default. English (Malaysia) is also live on the same flow and is the predominant business-onboarding language for a large share of users.
The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture is tuned for the MyKad and JPJ Driver's Licence templates, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.
What does the Malaysia 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. - `mys_national_id` (JPN),
$0.16per successful query. - `mys_credit_bureau`,
$0.71per successful query.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Malaysia 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.