Identity verification
built for Malta 
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.
Trusted by 2,000+ organizations worldwide.
How identity verification works in Malta.
- 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)
Who supervises identity verification in Malta.
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.
Four modules. One verification.
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.
- Maltese Identity Card · Residence permit
- eResidence card · Driving licence
- Maltese passport — chip read on e-Passport
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.
- 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 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.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
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.
Add country-specific data sources as Malta partners onboard — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Malta document Didit accepts.
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