Identity verification
built for Nicaragua 
Cédula de Identidad Ciudadana verified with biometric liveness and AML screening, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, built for Central America's remittance and fintech operators.




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How identity verification works in Nicaragua.
- Fraud landscape
- Nicaragua sees Cédula forgery driven by remittance-account access and cooperative onboarding, synthetic-identity fraud amplified by limited digital-registry connectivity, and PEP exposure through the Procuraduría General and National Assembly networks. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Ley No. 977, Ley Contra el Lavado de Activos, el Financiamiento al Terrorismo y el Financiamiento a la Proliferación de Armas (2018)
- Ley No. 561, Ley General de Bancos (2005, as amended)
- Norma sobre Gestión de Riesgo de LA/FT, SIBOIF Circular 2021
- Ley No. 842, Ley de Protección de los Derechos de las Personas Consumidoras y Usuarias
- GAFILAT 40 Recommendations
- FATF Methodology 2022
Who supervises identity verification in Nicaragua.
SIBOIF
Superintendencia de Bancos y de Otras Instituciones Financieras, prudential supervisor for banks, micro-lenders, insurance companies, and securities markets. Owns KYC and AML onboarding requirements under Ley No. 977.
UAF
Unidad de Análisis Financiero, Nicaragua's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas and coordinates with the Procuraduría General de la República.
BCN
Banco Central de Nicaragua, central bank. Oversees the payment system, monetary policy, and the regulatory framework for electronic-money operators.
CSE
Consejo Supremo Electoral, civil-registry authority that issues the Cédula de Identidad Ciudadana and maintains the authoritative identity database.
PGR
Procuraduría General de la República, Attorney General. Maintains the SIP register of enforcement actions and coordinates with the UAF on AML investigations.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the Cédula.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Cédula de Identidad Ciudadana (16-digit), Pasaporte (chip read on biometric passports), Cédula de Residencia, and Licencia de Conducir.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, and sex.
- Cédula de Identidad Ciudadana, 16-digit number
- Pasaporte, chip read on biometric e-Passport
- Cédula de Residencia
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.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Nicaragua watchlists:
- National Assembly of Nicaragua, PEP Level 1 legislative register
- Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), SIP enforcement-action register
- Nicaraguan Stock Exchange (BVDN), regulatory warnings
- SIBOIF, Superintendencia de Bancos administrative sanctions
- UAF, Unidad de Análisis Financiero suspicious-entity list
- BCN, Banco Central de Nicaragua regulatory warnings
- GAFILAT, Group of Financial Action of Latin America evaluations
- FATF, Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
- UN Security Council, consolidated sanctions list
- OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals
- Interpol, regional Central America red notices
- Basel AML Index, Nicaragua country risk tier
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.
Database validation against the CSE registry.
- There is no public government database validation API for Nicaragua currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Consejo Supremo Electoral (CSE) does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation against the CSE registry , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Nicaragua document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Nicaragua.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Nicaragua.
What is Didit?
Didit is infrastructure for identity and fraud, the platform we wished existed when we were building products ourselves: open, flexible, and developer-friendly, so it works as a real part of your stack instead of a black box you integrate around.
One API covers verifying people (KYC, know your customer), verifying businesses (KYB, know your business), screening crypto wallets (KYT, know your transaction), and monitoring transactions in real time, on a stack built to be:
- Fast, sub-2-second p99 on every session
- Reliable, in production with 1,500+ companies across 220+ countries
- Secure, SOC 2 Type 1, ISO 27001, GDPR-native, and formally attested by Spain's financial regulator as safer than verifying someone in person
The footprint underneath: 14,000+ document types in 48+ languages, 1,000+ data sources, and 200+ fraud signals on every session. The Didit infrastructure dynamically learns from every session and gets better every day.
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.
Which regulators govern identity verification for digital onboarding in Nicaragua?
Five authorities sit on top of every Nicaraguan identity-verification flow:
- Superintendencia de Bancos y de Otras Instituciones Financieras (SIBOIF), sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements for banks, micro-lenders, and insurance firms under Ley No. 977 (Ley Contra el Lavado de Activos, el Financiamiento al Terrorismo y el Financiamiento a la Proliferación de Armas de Destrucción Masiva).
- Unidad de Análisis Financiero (UAF), Nicaragua's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas.
- Banco Central de Nicaragua (BCN), central bank overseeing the payment system and electronic-money operators.
- Consejo Supremo Electoral (CSE), civil-registry authority that issues the Cédula de Identidad Ciudadana.
- Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), Attorney General maintaining the enforcement-action register.
Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy all five at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Is Didit ready for SIBOIF-supervised KYC under Ley No. 977?
Yes. Ley No. 977 (2018) and SIBOIF's implementing circulars require every supervised entity, bank, micro-lender, insurance firm, cooperative, to perform identity verification against an authoritative source and screen for AML risk before onboarding.
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 Nicaraguan watchlists (SIBOIF sanctions, UAF enforcement lists, National Assembly PEP register, PGR SIP list).
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the Ley No. 977 periodic-review obligation.
What documents can Didit verify for Nicaraguan users?
Didit accepts all primary Nicaraguan identity documents on the same hosted flow:
- Cédula de Identidad Ciudadana (16-digit, issued by CSE), OCR + template verification.
- Pasaporte (biometric, chip read on e-Passport), issued by Ministerio de Gobernación.
- Cédula de Residencia, for legally resident non-nationals.
- Licencia de Conducir, supplementary proof of identity.
Capture works on any smartphone camera, no special hardware required.
How long does it take to integrate Didit for Nicaragua?
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 + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML, 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 Nicaragua stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
What does the Nicaragua 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.
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.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.