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Identity verification
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Cartea de Identitate Electronică, pașaport, permis de conducere on one session, EU 2019/1157 + ICAO 9303 + BNR-aligned. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Romania.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Two pressures shape Romanian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-CI attacks on the wave of BNR-licensed neobanks and electronic-money issuers, and cross-border forgery pressure across the Schengen accession window as Romanian banks onboard Moldovan and Ukrainian residents. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Legea 129/2019 (AML Act)
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • DORA
  • GDPR / Legea 190/2018
  • BNR Regulamentul 9/2019
  • EU Reg. 2019/1157 (CEIe)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Romania.

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

    Banca Națională a României, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, and electronic-money issuers. Sets remote-onboarding requirements under Regulamentul 9/2019.

  • ASF

    Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară, supervises securities firms, insurers, private pensions, and Crypto-Asset Service Providers under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation.

  • ONPCSB

    Oficiul Național de Prevenire și Combatere a Spălării Banilor, the Romanian Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under Legea 129/2019 (AML Act).

  • ANSPDCP

    Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Romanian residents.

  • ANAF

    Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală, Romanian tax administration. Issues CNP (personal numeric code) and CUI tax-identification numbers referenced by KYB onboarding.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Romania 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.

  • cartea de identitate (the laminate CI and the new chip-enabled CEIe rolling out under EU Reg. 2019/1157), pașaport (with the chip read on e-Passports), permis de conducere, and permis de ședere for non-EU residents.
  • Returns the name, CNP (codul numeric personal), date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Cartea de Identitate · CEIe
  • Permis de ședere · Permis de conducere
  • Pașaport, 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 Romanian watchlists:

  • ANSPDCP Warnings, alerts issued by the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing.
  • National Assembly of Romania PEP register, Camera Deputaților and Senat members (PEP Level 1).
  • Radio Romania PEP register, state-broadcaster board members and senior officials.
  • Generali SIE, sanctions for irregularities in private-pension fund administration.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, applies under EU enforcement in Romania.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), US Treasury designations applied under EU overlap.
  • ONPCSB designated-entity and suspicious-pattern alerts, Romanian FIU intelligence under Legea 129/2019.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

Read the docs
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 Romania residential registry.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Romania Residential check (rou_residential, $1.25) cross-checks name + address against combined consumer and public records, proof-of-address for BNR account opening and ASF onboarding. No consent required.
  • Pair the residential check with the Identity Document Verification module for the full BNR Customer Due Diligence pillar, same POST /v3/database-validation/ call shape.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the Romania residential registry

Cross-check against the Romania residential registry , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Romania document Didit accepts.

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

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Romania.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
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 Romania.

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 Romanian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every Romanian identity-verification flow:

  • Banca Națională a României (BNR), central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, and electronic-money issuers. Sets remote-onboarding requirements under Regulamentul 9/2019 and the broader AML framework.
  • Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară (ASF), supervises securities firms, insurers, private pensions, and Crypto-Asset Service Providers under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).
  • Oficiul Național de Prevenire și Combatere a Spălării Banilor (ONPCSB), Romania's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under Legea 129/2019 (AML Act).
  • Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP), supervises the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Legea 190/2018.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four 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 Romanian identities against an authoritative registry?

Yes, via the `rou_residential` Database Validation service on POST /v3/database-validation/.

  • Source: combined consumer and public records.
  • Price: $1.25 per successful query.
  • Required inputs: first_name, last_name, address.
  • Returns: address, first_name, last_name match scores.
  • Consent: not required.

The service is documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/romania/residential. The cartea de identitate and the new CEIe are both captured + OCR-parsed + chip-read on the same session via the Identity Document Verification module.

Is Didit ready for a BNR Payment Institution authorisation in Romania?

Yes. Romania's Banca Națională a României (BNR) authorises every Payment Institution (PI) and Electronic-Money Institution (EMI) under Regulamentul 9/2019 and the broader AML framework, every entity must run full Customer Due Diligence under Legea 129/2019.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • `rou_residential` Database Validation for the authoritative proof-of-address.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Romanian regulatory watchlists (ANSPDCP Warnings, National Assembly PEP register) and EU Consolidated Sanctions.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation, plus an ONPCSB Suspicious Activity Report evidence pack on every hit.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Romania?

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 + Romania residential database, 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 Romania stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

Romanian, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Romanian users land on the Romanian flow by default. English, Hungarian, German, and Ukrainian are also live on the same flow for cross-border or expat users.

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 Romania 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.
  • `rou_residential`, $1.25 per successful query.

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