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Identity verification
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NRIC, Passport and FIN card on one session, with MAS-aligned AML screening and credit-bureau cross-check, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Singapore.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Singapore identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-NRIC attacks on the wave of MAS-licensed digital banks (Trust Bank, GXS, MariBank, ANEXT, Green Link), Singpass-credential-theft scams targeting onboarding flows, and Digital Payment Token Service Provider (DPTSP) onboarding pressure as MAS hardens crypto-exchange supervision under Payment Services Act amendments. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • MAS Notice 626 (Banks, AML/CFT)
  • MAS Notice 824 (Payment Institutions, AML/CFT)
  • MAS Notice PS-N02 (DPTSP, AML/CFT)
  • CDSA (Corruption, Drug Trafficking & Other Serious Crimes Act)
  • Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA)
  • Payment Services Act 2019
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Singapore.

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

    Monetary Authority of Singapore, central bank and integrated supervisor for banks, payment institutions, Digital Payment Token Service Providers (DPTSP), capital-markets intermediaries and insurance entities. Sets the AML/CFT framework via MAS Notices 626, 824 and PS-N02.

  • STRO

    Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office, Singapore's Financial Intelligence Unit, housed in the Commercial Affairs Department. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes Act (CDSA).

  • PDPC

    Personal Data Protection Commission, enforces the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA). Governs how identity-verification data is collected, used, disclosed and retained.

  • ICA

    Immigration & Checkpoints Authority, issues every NRIC, FIN card, and Singapore passport. The authoritative civil-registry authority for citizens, Permanent Residents and long-term-pass holders.

  • SGX

    Singapore Exchange, securities exchange operator. Sets listing and member-firm KYC requirements for securities intermediaries trading on SGX, including investor-suitability and AML/CFT obligations aligned to MAS Notice 626.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Singapore 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.

  • NRIC (current polycarbonate format), FIN card for long-term-pass holders, Singapore Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and the Singapore Driving Licence.
  • Returns the name, NRIC / FIN / passport number, date of birth, sex, race and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • NRIC · FIN card
  • Singapore Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • Singapore Driving Licence
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 Singapore watchlists:

  • MAS Investor Alert List, unregulated or suspicious entities flagged by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
  • Singapore Statutes Online, Terrorists and Terrorist Entities, designations under the Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act.
  • MAS Enforcement Actions, companies and individuals subject to MAS regulatory action.
  • MAS Financial Sanctions, persons and entities subject to MAS-administered financial sanctions.
  • Parliament of Singapore, Politically Exposed Persons register for Members of Parliament and Ministers.
  • STRO, Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office references under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes Act (CDSA).
  • Singapore Police Force, Commercial Affairs Department, enforcement watchlist for commercial crime and financial fraud.
  • Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB), enforcement targets and debarred persons under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

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 credit-bureau and utility records.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Singapore Credit Bureau check (sgp_credit_bureau, $2.61) hits a Singapore Credit Bureau for full name + date of birth + address + NRIC cross-check. Consent required.
  • The Singapore Utility check (sgp_utility, $1.69, >80% coverage) cross-checks against telco billing and phone records, useful as a Proof-of-Address signal for MAS Notice 626 onboarding.
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Stage 04Cross-check against credit-bureau and utility records

Cross-check against credit-bureau and utility records , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Singapore 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 Singapore.

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 Singapore regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

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

  • Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), central bank and integrated financial supervisor. Sets remote-onboarding rules for banks under MAS Notice 626, payment institutions under MAS Notice 824, and Digital Payment Token Service Providers (DPTSP) under MAS Notice PS-N02.
  • Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office (STRO), Singapore's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes Act (CDSA).
  • Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC), supervises the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA). Governs how the verification data is captured, stored and disclosed.
  • Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), issues every NRIC, FIN card and Singapore Passport; the authoritative civil-registry authority.

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 Singapore identities against an authoritative registry?

Yes, via two Database Validation services (POST /v3/database-validation/):

  • `sgp_credit_bureau`, full name + date of birth + address + NRIC cross-check against a Singapore Credit Bureau. $2.61 per successful query, consent required.
  • `sgp_utility`, telco + phone-record cross-check, >80% adult-population coverage. $1.69 per successful query, no consent required.

NRIC, FIN card and Singapore Passport are captured + OCR + biometric face-matched on the hosted Identity Document Verification flow. ICA does not expose a public consumer-grade NRIC verification API; the credit-bureau lookup is the closest equivalent the market provides today.

Is Didit ready for a Digital Payment Token Service Provider (DPTSP) licence under the Payment Services Act?

Yes. MAS licenses every crypto exchange, custodian and on-ramp operator as a Digital Payment Token Service Provider (DPTSP) under the Payment Services Act 2019, with mandatory KYC + AML controls per MAS Notice PS-N02.

Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • `sgp_credit_bureau` Database Validation against Singapore credit-header data.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus MAS Investor Alert List, Singapore Statutes Online Terrorists and Terrorist Entities, MAS Financial Sanctions and MAS Enforcement Actions.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT) at $0.15 per check for the on-chain exposure assessment Notice PS-N02 requires.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Singapore?

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 + Singapore credit-bureau 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 Singapore stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

English (Singapore), auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Singapore users land on the English flow by default. Mandarin Chinese, Malay and Tamil are also live for users whose device locale signals one of the other three official languages.

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 Singapore 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.
  • `sgp_credit_bureau`, $2.61 per successful query.
  • `sgp_utility`, $1.69 per successful query.

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