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Identity verification
built for Maldives Flag of Maldives

Maldivian National ID and biometric passport on one session, face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across Maldives Monetary Authority watchlists and global sanctions lists. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Maldives.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
The Maldives faces identity-fraud pressures driven by the archipelago's large tourism and hospitality sector, fraudulent foreign-national identity claims, synthetic-ID attacks exploiting the seasonal influx of migrant workers, and cross-border document forgery via the India-Sri Lanka-Maldives trade corridor. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act (Law No. 4/2014)
  • Banking Act (Law No. 24/2010)
  • Maldives Monetary Authority Act (Law No. 6/81)
  • Maldives Securities Act
  • APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
  • FATF 40 Recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Maldives.

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

    Maldives Monetary Authority, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, money service businesses, and payment service providers. Issues Customer Due Diligence requirements under the Banking Act (Law No. 24/2010).

  • FIU-Maldives

    Financial Intelligence Unit, operates under MMA. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and enforces AML/CFT controls under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act (Law No. 4/2014).

  • CMDA

    Capital Market Development Authority, supervises capital-market participants, securities dealers, and investment companies under the Maldives Securities Act.

  • Department of National Registration

    Issues the National Identity Card and maintains the Maldives' civil population registry, the authoritative source for NIC-based identity verification.

  • Ministry of Home Affairs and Land

    Oversees the Department of National Registration and the Department of Immigration. Enforces data-protection requirements on identity-verification flows under Maldivian law.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Maldives 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.

  • National Identity Card (biometric smart card), biometric passport (with NFC chip read), Work Permit / Employment Visa, and Driving Licence.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • National Identity Card, biometric smart card
  • Biometric Passport, NFC chip read
  • Work Permit / Employment Visa · Driving Licence
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 Maldivian watchlists:

  • National Assembly of Maldives, PEP Level 1 (members of parliament).
  • Ministry of National Planning and Infrastructure Maldives, PEP Level 3 (senior ministry officials).
  • Progressive Party of Maldives, PEP Level 3 (major political party figures).
  • Ministry of Finance Maldives, Warnings (regulatory and enforcement notices).
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List, global designations.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), US Treasury designations.
  • EU Consolidated Sanctions List, European Union designated entities.
  • UK HMT Sanctions List, His Majesty's Treasury financial sanctions.
  • APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering), mutual evaluation watchlist.
  • FATF 40 Recommendations, high-risk jurisdiction monitoring.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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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

Database validation for Maldivian identities.

  • There is no public government database validation API for the Maldives currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Department of National Registration civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Database validation for Maldivian identities

Database validation for Maldivian identities , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Maldives document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Maldives.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
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 Maldives.

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 Maldivian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Three regulators sit on top of every Maldivian identity-verification flow:

  • Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA), central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, money service businesses, and payment providers. Sets Customer Due Diligence requirements under the Banking Act (Law No. 24/2010).
  • Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-Maldives), operates under MMA. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and enforces AML/CFT controls under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act (Law No. 4/2014).
  • Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA), supervises capital-market participants and issues KYC compliance requirements for securities onboarding under the Maldives Securities Act.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all three at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Does Didit accept the Maldivian National Identity Card?

Yes. The Maldivian National Identity Card (biometric smart card issued by the Department of National Registration) is fully supported:

  • OCR-parsed and template-verified on any phone camera.
  • Biometric passport (ICAO 9303-compliant with NFC chip read) also accepted on the same session.
  • Work Permit / Employment Visa accepted for the Maldives' large foreign-national workforce in tourism and construction.

All 220+ country foreign passports and national IDs are also accepted, supporting the Maldives' international expatriate and tourism population.

Is Didit ready for MMA-licensed fintech or money service business onboarding in the Maldives?

Yes. MMA-licensed banks, financial institutions, and money service businesses must run full Customer Due Diligence under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act (Law No. 4/2014).

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Maldivian watchlists (National Assembly PEP register, Ministry of Finance warnings, UN/OFAC/EU/UK sanctions lists).
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for periodic-review obligations under Law No. 4/2014.
  • 500 verifications free every month, pilot the full Maldives stack at zero cost.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in the Maldives?

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, 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 Maldives stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

What does Maldives 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.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + 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; 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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