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Swiss ID card, biometric passport and residence permit on one FINMA-aligned session, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Switzerland.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Swiss identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-identity attacks on Zug's crypto-asset service providers and Zurich's neobank cluster, sophisticated forgery of the Ausländerausweis residence permit on the cross-border corridor, and FINMA-supervised video-ident replay attacks on private-banking onboarding. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • GwG (Geldwäschereigesetz)
  • FINMA AML Ordinance (GwV-FINMA)
  • FINMA Circular 2016/7 Video and Online Identification
  • EmbA (Embargo Act)
  • revFADP / nFADP (Revised Federal Act on Data Protection)
  • DLT Act (Distributed Ledger Technology)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Switzerland.

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

    Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority. Integrated supervisor for banks, securities firms, insurers, payment institutions and crypto-asset service providers (VASPs).

  • EDÖB

    Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter, federal data-protection commissioner. Supervises the revFADP / nFADP (Revised Federal Act on Data Protection), live since September 2023.

  • MROS

    Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (at fedpol), Switzerland's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under the GwG (Geldwäschereigesetz).

  • SECO

    State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, administers and enforces Switzerland's sanctions regime (EmbA, Embargo Act) and maintains the Swiss Sanctions List.

  • SNB

    Schweizerische Nationalbank, Swiss National Bank. Operates the SIC (Swiss Interbank Clearing) payment system and oversees monetary stability.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Switzerland 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.

  • Identitätskarte / Carte d'identité, Reisepass (with NFC chip read on e-Passports), Ausländerausweis (B, C, L, G, F variants), Führerausweis, and every EU/EEA national identity card.
  • Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of origin, nationality, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Identitätskarte · Carte d'identité
  • Reisepass, NFC e-Passport
  • Ausländerausweis · Führerausweis
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 Swiss watchlists:

  • State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), List of Sanctioned Individuals, Entities and Organizations, Switzerland's primary sanctions list aligned with UN Security Council and autonomous Swiss designations.
  • State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Sanctions List, supplementary domestic-sanctions register maintained by SECO.
  • FINMA-DU, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority Enforcement, FINMA enforcement decisions and regulatory sanctions against financial-market participants.
  • National Assembly of Switzerland, PEP register, members of the National Council and Council of States (PEP Level 1).
  • Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung), PEP register, senior federal officials and assembly leadership roles.
  • HSBC Global Private Banking, SIE, state-invested enterprise register relevant to Swiss private-banking flows.
  • Katsura Suzuki GmbH, SIP, adverse-media reference list for Switzerland-domiciled entities.
  • MROS (Money Reporting Office Switzerland), FIU suspicious-activity reports and typology bulletins, Swiss Financial Intelligence Unit alerts under the GwG (Geldwäschereigesetz).
  • Hits are scored by severity, a Bundesrat member surfaces as a PEP Level 1, a Nationalrat member as PEP Level 2, sanctions as critical.
  • Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears.
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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 Swiss credit bureau.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Consumer check (che_consumer, $0.08, ~10% coverage) is the lead-generation database lookup against name + DOB.
  • The Credit-bureau check (che_credit_bureau, $1.05, ~85% coverage, consent required) cross-checks against credit-header data, useful for FINMA-licensed lenders, neobanks running underwriting, and GwG enhanced due diligence on higher-risk customers.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the Swiss credit bureau

Cross-check against the Swiss credit bureau , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Switzerland 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.
Read the security & compliance dossier
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 Switzerland.

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 Swiss regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Five sit on top of every Swiss identity-verification flow:

  • Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA), sets remote-onboarding requirements for banks, securities firms, payment institutions and VASPs under FINMA Circular 2016/7 Video and Online Identification and the FINMA Anti-Money Laundering Ordinance (GwV-FINMA).
  • Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB), supervises the revFADP / nFADP (Revised Federal Act on Data Protection) live since September 2023.
  • MROS (Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland at fedpol), Switzerland's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under the GwG (Geldwäschereigesetz).
  • SECO (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs), administers Switzerland's sanctions regime under the EmbA (Embargo Act).
  • Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB), operates the SIC payment system and oversees monetary stability.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the 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.

Does Didit cross-check Swiss identities against the credit bureau?

Yes, via the `che_credit_bureau` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/ with services=che_credit_bureau).

  • Source: Swiss consumer credit-bureau header data.
  • Coverage: ~85% of the adult population.
  • Price: $1.05 per successful query.
  • Required inputs: first_name, last_name, date_of_birth, address.
  • Consent: required per revFADP / nFADP.
  • Returns: name_match_score, date_of_birth, address_match, full verifications[] matrix.

A lighter `che_consumer` ($0.08, ~10% coverage) lookup is also available. Both are documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/switzerland/.

Is Didit ready for FINMA Circular 2016/7 Video and Online Identification?

Yes. FINMA Circular 2016/7 governs remote video and online identification for FINMA-supervised financial intermediaries, Didit's hosted flow satisfies the requirement set:

  • Identity Document Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
  • Swiss Identitätskarte + Reisepass chip-read and OCR parsing, the source check FINMA expects under Para 17–28 of the circular.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus Swiss regulatory watchlists (SECO List of Sanctioned Individuals, FINMA-DU Enforcement).
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under Art. 6 GwG.
  • KYB with Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) resolution + linked KYC per UBO for the Art. 4 GwG beneficial-ownership pillar.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Switzerland?

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 + 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 Switzerland stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

German, French, Italian, Romansh, and English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Swiss users land on their preferred national language by default.

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 Switzerland 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.
  • `che_consumer`, $0.08 per successful query.
  • `che_credit_bureau`, $1.05 per successful query.

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