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Identity verification
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Cédula de Identidad and Pasaporte on one session, cross-checked against the Tribunal Electoral with biometric face-match, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Panama.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Panamanian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Cédula attacks on the SBP-licensed banks and Yappy / Nequi-style payment apps that dominate the local rails, Cédula document forgery across the chip and legacy formats, and AML pressure given Panama's history on FATF grey-listing and the continuous remediation work in place. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Ley 23 de 2015 (PLA/FT)
  • Acuerdo SBP 10-2015 (CDD)
  • Ley 81 de 2019 (Protección de Datos Personales)
  • Ley 129 de 2020 (registry of UBO)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Panama.

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

    Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá, prudential supervisor for banks, EMIs, payment institutions and financial cooperatives. Sets remote-onboarding rules under Acuerdo SBP 10-2015.

  • SMV

    Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores, securities and capital-market supervisor. Registers broker-dealers, investment advisers and crypto-asset intermediaries.

  • UAF

    Unidad de Análisis Financiero, Panama's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas under Ley 23 of 2015.

  • ANPD

    Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información, Ley 81 (Protección de Datos Personales, 2019) supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Panamanian residents.

  • Tribunal Electoral

    Civil-registry authority. Issues every Cédula de Identidad and operates the SIB biometric service used as the authoritative-source database for identity verification.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Panama 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.

  • Cédula de Identidad (chip and legacy), Carné de Residente, Pasaporte (with the chip read on e-Passports), and driving licence.
  • Returns the name, Cédula, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Cédula de Identidad
  • Carné de Residente
  • Pasaporte, 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.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. 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 Panamanian watchlists:

  • PASSRP, Superintendence of Insurance and Reinsurance of Panama (SIE), sanctions from the insurance and reinsurance regulator.
  • PAMP-MW, Public Ministry of Panama, Most Wanted (SIP), Ministerio Público's most-wanted fugitives register.
  • National Assembly of Panama, PEP register, Diputados de la Asamblea Nacional and senior assembly officials.
  • Superintendency of Securities Market of Panama, Warnings, SMV regulatory warnings against securities and capital-market participants.
  • Unidad de Análisis Financiero (UAF), sanctions register, UAF-issued PLA/FT enforcement actions and sanctions.
  • Tribunal Electoral, Cédula registry, cross-check against Panama's authoritative civil registry.
  • Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá (SBP), Sanctions and Enforcement Actions, SBP-issued enforcement actions against banks, EMIs and payment institutions.

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

Cross-check against the Tribunal Electoral.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The SIB check (pan_cedula_sib, $0.75) is the standard biometric tier, Cédula + selfie against the Tribunal Electoral SIB service.
  • The SIB Plus check (pan_cedula_sib_plus, $1.50) is the elevated tier, same data source with stronger biometric thresholds and richer match metadata. The right pick when SBP asks for enhanced Customer Due Diligence.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the Tribunal Electoral

Cross-check against the Tribunal Electoral , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Panama document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
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 Panama.

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.

Which Panamanian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Three sit on top of every Panamanian identity-verification flow:

  • Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá (SBP), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, EMIs, payment institutions and financial cooperatives under Acuerdo SBP 10-2015 (Customer Due Diligence) and the broader Ley 23 de 2015 prevention-of-money-laundering framework.
  • Unidad de Análisis Financiero (UAF), Panama's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Reportes de Operaciones Sospechosas under Ley 23 de 2015.
  • Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (ANPD), supervises Ley 81 de 2019 (Protección de Datos Personales). Governs how the verification data is captured, stored and disclosed.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all three 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 Panamanian identities against the Tribunal Electoral?

Yes, via two Database Validation services on POST /v3/database-validation/.

  • `pan_cedula_sib` ($0.75), Standard SIB biometric tier. Cédula + selfie against the Tribunal Electoral SIB service.
  • `pan_cedula_sib_plus` ($1.50), Elevated SIB Plus tier with stronger biometric thresholds and richer match metadata. The right pick when SBP asks for enhanced Customer Due Diligence on higher-risk customers.

Both services include a biometric face-match against the photo on file at the Tribunal Electoral, return identification_number and the match decision.

Is Didit FATF-grey-list aware for Panamanian financial institutions?

Yes, and that is part of why customers pick Didit in Panama. Panama's continuous remediation work with the FATF means SBP- and UAF-supervised entities operate under enhanced expectations on Customer Due Diligence, source-of-funds documentation, beneficial-ownership transparency, and ongoing monitoring.

Didit's stack maps directly:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • `pan_cedula_sib_plus` Database Validation (elevated tier) against the Tribunal Electoral, the authoritative-source biometric check Acuerdo SBP 10-2015 expects for enhanced due diligence.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Panamanian regulatory watchlists.
  • Business Verification (KYB) with full UBO chain extraction (Ley 129 de 2020) for corporate onboarding.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Panama?

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 + Tribunal Electoral SIB cross-check, 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 Panama stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

Panamanian Spanish, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Panamanian users land on the Spanish flow by default. English is also live on the same flow for cross-border or expat users, useful given the deep English-speaking expat and offshore community in Panama City.

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.

What does the Panama 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.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.
  • `pan_cedula_sib` (Standard tier), $0.75 per successful query.
  • `pan_cedula_sib_plus` (Elevated tier), $1.50 per successful query.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Panama 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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