Identity verification
built for North Macedonia 
North Macedonia's Financial Intelligence Office (FIO) and National Bank enforce AML/CFT across an EU-candidate economy, Didit delivers ID, liveness, AML, and the $0.33 bundle at 500 free checks per month.
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How identity verification works in North Macedonia.
- Fraud landscape
- North Macedonia faces document-forgery and synthetic-identity fraud pressure across its growing fintech and remittance sectors, with cross-border exposure driven by EU free-movement aspirations and diaspora financial corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law on Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism 2014 (as amended 2021)
- FATF 40 Recommendations
- MONEYVAL evaluation framework
- Law on Personal Data Protection (GDPR-aligned)
- EU AMLD5/6 alignment (pre-accession)
Who supervises identity verification in North Macedonia.
NBRM
National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks and payment institutions. Sets CDD requirements under the Law on Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism 2014.
FIO
Financial Intelligence Office, North Macedonia's national FIU. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports from obligated entities and coordinates with MONEYVAL on AML effectiveness.
SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission of North Macedonia, supervises capital markets, investment firms, and securities dealers. Issues AML compliance requirements for regulated market participants.
AZLP
Агенцијата за заштита на личните податоци (Agency for Personal Data Protection), North Macedonia's national DPA and GDPR-aligned data supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Macedonian residents.
Central Registry
Central Registry of North Macedonia, SIE-classified entity that maintains the company and UBO registry. Senior officials designated in the Didit AML screening layer.
ISA
Insurance Supervision Agency, supervises insurance companies and pension funds. Requires KYC compliance for policyholder onboarding under AML/CFT rules.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the Macedonian ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Лична карта (biometric national ID with chip), Пасош (ICAO 9303 biometric passport), Возачка дозвола, and residence permits.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- Лична карта (biometric national ID card)
- Пасош (biometric passport), NFC chip read
- Возачка дозвола (driving licence)
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 North Macedonia watchlists:
- Parliament of North Macedonia, PEP Level 1 (legislators and senior state officials).
- Central Registry of North Macedonia, SIE (state-invested entity designations).
- EU, Europe's Most Wanted, Europol cross-border designations.
- Municipality of Gjorche Petrov Skopje, Gazette, local enforcement and warnings.
- FIO (Financial Intelligence Office), SAR-derived AML designations.
- MONEYVAL, Council of Europe AML evaluation findings.
- FATF 40 Recommendations, risk-jurisdiction monitoring.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List, global designations.
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), US Treasury designations.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, pre-accession applicable enforcement.
- Interpol Notices, international law enforcement designations.
- Basel AML Index, annual risk-scoring for North Macedonia.
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.
Document validation, no public registry API in North Macedonia.
Document validation, no public registry API in North Macedonia , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every North Macedonia document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for North Macedonia.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about North Macedonia.
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.
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 North Macedonian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three regulators sit on every North Macedonian identity-verification flow:
- NBRM (National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia), sets CDD requirements under the Law on Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism 2014 (as amended 2021).
- FIO (Financial Intelligence Office), receives Suspicious Activity Reports. Senior FIO officials appear as PEPs in the Didit screening layer.
- AZLP (Agency for Personal Data Protection), North Macedonia's national DPA. Governs every identity verification on Macedonian residents under the GDPR-aligned data protection law.
Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy all three simultaneously.
Is there a government database validation API for North Macedonian identities?
No, North Macedonia does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators for civil registry cross-checks.
Didit compensates with three complementary validation layers running in parallel:
- Document OCR + chip read, every field on the Лична карта or Пасош is extracted and validated against ISO/ICAO templates.
- Biometric liveness + Face Match 1:1, the selfie is confirmed live and matched against the document portrait.
- AML screening, the extracted name is screened across 1,300+ global and North Macedonian watchlists (FIO, MONEYVAL, OFAC, UN, Interpol, Central Registry).
Is Didit ready for AML-compliant onboarding under North Macedonian law?
Yes. North Macedonia's Law on Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism 2014 (as amended 2021) applies to every NBRM-supervised bank and SEC-regulated firm.
Didit covers the full stack:
- Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for tier-1 onboarding.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against 1,300+ lists including FIO designations, MONEYVAL findings, OFAC SDN, and UN sanctions.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for periodic customer-review obligations.
How long does it take to integrate Didit for North Macedonia?
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_id, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, or any coding agent. - Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.
The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever.
What does North Macedonia 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 is `$0.33`, same price worldwide. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.