Identity verification in Myanmar
Executive summary. Myanmar is not a normal KYC market and should not be treated as one. Since 21 October 2022, it has been on the FATF blacklist (High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action) — one of only three countries on that list, alongside North Korea and Iran. As of the 13 February 2026 FATF plenary the blacklist still contains only those three jurisdictions, and the FATF has warned
Documents supported
(Government IDs from 220+ countries)
Average verification time
Countries covered
(Government-issued IDs validated)
Market overview
Myanmar (Burma) has a population of roughly 55 million. Since the 1 February 2021 military coup, the country has been governed by the State Administration Council (SAC), headed by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. The coup collapsed a decade of tentative liberalisation, cut GDP by double digits, drove the kyat into a managed-FX crisis, triggered the exit of most foreign investors (Telenor, Ooredoo, TotalEnergies, Chevron, Woodside, Kirin, British American Tobacco, Adani, POSCO and many others), and re-isolated the banking system from the Western correspondent network. There are effectively four KYC-relevant surfaces left in or around Myanmar, and none of them looks like a normal TAM:
Supported documents
Didit templates cover national IDs, passports, residence permits and regional documents — plus 14,000+ documents globally for cross-border flows.
Regulators
AML supervisor
Ministry of Immigration and Population
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National ID system based on CSC (pink card for citizens). Ethnicity-based classification system. Rohingya excluded. Digital systems severely impacted by political crisis since 2021.
Government & regulated databases
Compliance framework
AML framework
Supervised by AML Law
- Anti-Money Laundering Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 11/2014) — the backbone AML statute, promulgated 14 March 2014, replacing the 2002 Control of Money Laundering Law. Establishes the offences, the Anti-Money Laundering Central Board (AMLCB), the MFIU, reporting-entity obligations, CDD, record-retention (minimum five years), suspicious-transaction reporting, and the predicate-offence list aligned to FATF 40 Recommendations. English text is published by the Central Bank of Myanmar and in the
Data protection
Supervised by National DPA
Use cases
Neobanks, EMIs, payment institutions, lenders, brokerages.
No serious Myanmar KYC analysis can omit the industrial-scale forced-labour cyber-scam economy concentrated along the Thai–Myanmar border and in the ethnic-armed-organisation zones of Shan and Kayin (Karen) states.
Exchanges, custodians, wallets, on/off-ramps.
The civil identity stack in Myanmar is paper-heavy, ethnicity-stratified, and not API-accessible.
Sports betting, online casinos, age-gated platforms.
Effectively none are accessible to commercial KYC providers:
Gig platforms, delivery, creator economy, e-commerce.
A realistic compliance flow for a non-Myanmar regulated entity (EU EMI, UK crypto VASP, Singapore MAS licensee, UAE VARA licensee) that encounters a Myanmar-linked customer:
Biometric liveness
Not feasible. There is no civil registry API, no telco data API, no credit bureau, no utility-bill API, no national health database accessible to commercial KYC. Any vendor claiming "database verification" for Myanmar is almost certainly reselling stale scraped data or confusing Myanmar with other ASEAN markets. The only honest method is document verification plus biometric liveness plus sanctions screening. ---
CERTIFICATIONS
Our platform meets the highest international standards for information security, data privacy, and biometric accuracy.
Full EU data protection compliance
Information security management
PAD (liveness + face match)
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Trust & Safety Executive at Shiply
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COO at GBTC Finance
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VP Marketing & Growth at Bondex
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Executive assistant to the CEO at Adelantos
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Ernesto Betancourth
Gerente de riesgos at CrediDemo
FAQ
Yes. Myanmar permits remote KYC onboarding under its national AML framework, including document verification, biometric liveness and video identification where required by regulation.
Didit verifies all major national IDs, passports and residence permits issued in Myanmar, plus 14,000+ document types globally for cross-border flows.
Didit charges $0.30 per verification with 500 free checks per month. No contracts, no minimums. Competitors typically charge $1.00–$2.50+ per verification.
Yes. Didit screens against 1,000+ global watchlists including PEP databases, sanctions lists (EU, UN, OFAC, OFSI), and adverse media — covering all AML obligations in Myanmar.
Most regulated sectors in Myanmar require or strongly recommend biometric liveness detection for remote onboarding. Didit provides ISO 30107-3 PAD Level 2 certified liveness.
Yes. Didit supports document verification, liveness, AML screening and ongoing monitoring aligned with Myanmar’s crypto regulatory framework, including EU Travel Rule compliance where applicable.
Yes. Didit provides document-based age verification and identity confirmation suitable for Myanmar’s iGaming regulatory requirements.
500 free verifications per month. No contracts, no minimums. $0.30 per verification after the free tier.
