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Identity verification
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Maltese ID card, passport, driving licence on one session, MGA iGaming + MFSA + EU 2019/1157 + ICAO 9303 aligned. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Malta.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Two pressures shape Maltese identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the world's densest online-gaming licensing regime (Malta Gaming Authority, MGA), and cross-border forgery pressure across the EU MiCA crypto-licensing window with MFSA-supervised Virtual Financial Asset providers. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Chapter 373 (Prevention of Money Laundering Act)
  • AMLD6
  • MGA Gaming Act 2018
  • MFSA VFA Act
  • MiCA
  • DORA
  • GDPR
  • EU Reg. 2019/1157 (Maltese ID)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Malta.

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

    Malta Gaming Authority, supervises B2C and B2B remote-gaming operators worldwide under the Gaming Act 2018. Player-onboarding, source-of-funds, and KYC requirements among the strictest in the EU.

  • MFSA

    Malta Financial Services Authority, unified supervisor for banks, payment institutions, electronic-money issuers, securities firms, insurers, and Virtual Financial Asset (VFA) Service Providers under VFA Act + MiCA.

  • FIAU

    Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit, Malta's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under Chapter 373 (Prevention of Money Laundering Act).

  • IDPC

    Information and Data Protection Commissioner, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) supervisor for Malta. Governs every identity verification on Maltese residents.

  • ARC

    Asset Recovery Bureau, Malta's anti-criminal-asset authority. Maintains adverse-media and Special-Interest-Person (SIP) watchlists used in AML screening for Maltese nationals and entities.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Malta 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.

  • Maltese Identity Card (the chip-enabled card mandated under EU Reg. 2019/1157), Maltese passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), driving licence, residence permit, and eResidence card for long-term residents.
  • Returns the name, ID number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry. Same flow handles every EU/EEA national identity card under AMLD6 mutual recognition for players and customers crossing borders.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Maltese Identity Card · Residence permit
  • eResidence card · Driving licence
  • Maltese passport, chip read on e-Passport
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Same selfie is searched against the customer's prior users, catches anyone trying to onboard twice or under a different name. Critical for MGA-licensed operators chasing self-excluded players or multi-account fraud rings. 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 Maltese watchlists:

  • House of Assembly (Malta), PEP register, PEP Level 1 elected officials and senior public figures.
  • Asset Recovery Bureau, Adverse media (SIP), Special-Interest-Person adverse-media signals.
  • Malta Transport Maritime, Warnings, maritime regulatory warning register.
  • MFSA, Regulatory enforcement watchlist, Malta Financial Services Authority enforcement actions.
  • MGA, Player protection and enforcement register, Malta Gaming Authority licensed-operator enforcement.
  • Police Economic Crimes Unit, financial crime investigation register.
  • Malta Revenue Authority, tax enforcement and flagged entities.
  • EU Consolidated Sanctions, applies under EU law enforcement in Malta.
  • OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals applicable to cross-border exposure.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions, binding on all EU member states.

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

Add country-specific data sources as Malta partners onboard.

Malta does not currently expose a country-specific Database Validation service in Didit's open catalogue, there is no public government registry API for Malta that is open to third-party integrators today. The Maltese ID Card is captured + OCR + chip-read on the same session via the Identity Document Verification module, and authoritative-source residential checks ship as Malta data partners come online.

  • The full AML Screening surface ($0.20 per check) is live today, global sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, EU Consolidated Sanctions, OFAC SDN, UN sanctions, plus the Maltese watchlists listed above.
  • For elevated-assurance flows, pair Identity Document Verification with Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 + AML Screening, the standard tier-1 onboarding stack for MGA-licensed operators and MFSA-supervised entities.
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Stage 04Add country-specific data sources as Malta partners onboard

Add country-specific data sources as Malta partners onboard , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Malta 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 Malta.

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 Malta.

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.

Is Didit ready for a Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) B2C licence?

Yes. The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) supervises B2C and B2B remote-gaming operators worldwide under the Gaming Act 2018 and the Player Protection Directive, every licensed operator must run full Customer Due Diligence + age verification + source-of-funds + responsible-gaming checks.

Didit covers the full MGA stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • Age Estimation ($0.10) for under-18 gates on the marketing funnel before full KYC.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Maltese regulatory watchlists and EU Consolidated Sanctions.
  • Face Search 1:N (free) for self-exclusion enforcement and multi-account fraud detection, critical under Player Protection Directive compliance.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation, plus an FIAU Suspicious Activity Report evidence pack on every hit.
Which Maltese regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Maltese identity-verification flow:

  • Malta Gaming Authority (MGA), supervises B2C and B2B remote-gaming operators worldwide under the Gaming Act 2018. Player-onboarding, source-of-funds, and KYC requirements among the strictest in the EU.
  • Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), unified prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, electronic-money issuers, securities firms, insurers, and Virtual Financial Asset (VFA) Service Providers under the VFA Act and the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).
  • Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU), Malta's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under Chapter 373 (Prevention of Money Laundering Act).
  • Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC), supervises the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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 Maltese identities against an authoritative registry?

The Maltese Identity Card itself is captured + OCR-parsed + chip-read on the same session via the Identity Document Verification module, the chip-enabled card aligned with EU Regulation 2019/1157.

A Malta-specific Database Validation service_id is on the roadmap as Malta data partners onboard, the open catalogue ships pay-per-call authoritative-source checks for the country as each partner goes live. In the meantime:

  • Identity Document Verification captures + reads + chip-validates the Maltese ID Card.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) covers the full Maltese regulatory watchlist surface (House of Assembly PEPs, Asset Recovery Bureau, Malta Transport Maritime) plus EU Consolidated Sanctions, OFAC SDN, and UN sanctions.
  • The same POST /v3/database-validation/ endpoint adds the Malta service ID the moment it ships, no integration change for existing customers.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Malta?

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 + Active 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 Malta stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. English is the working language of Maltese financial services and online gaming, with the hosted UI also shipping in Maltese, Italian, Russian, and German for the international player base.

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. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages total.

What does the Malta 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 (critical for self-exclusion enforcement).
  • Age Estimation, $0.10 per check (useful for under-18 gates before full KYC on iGaming).
  • 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, no Malta 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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