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Taiwan National Identity Card and Passport captured on one session, screened against FSC and AMLD watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Taiwan.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Taiwanese identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks targeting the rapidly expanding fintech and crypto sectors supervised by the FSC, forgery of the National Identity Card during the ongoing chip-upgrade migration, and cross-strait account takeover operations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Money Laundering Control Act (MLCA), last amended 2021
  • Terrorism Financing Prevention Act (TFPA) 2021
  • Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2022
  • Financial Holding Company Act (FHCA)
  • Banking Act (銀行法), FSC implementing regulations on CDD
  • APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering), mutual evaluation framework
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Taiwan.

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

    Financial Supervisory Commission, Taiwan's integrated financial supervisor. Oversees banks, securities firms, futures dealers, insurance companies, and payment institutions. Sets KYC/AML requirements for all regulated entities.

  • AMLD

    Anti-Money Laundering Division of the Ministry of Justice, Taiwan's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Administers the Money Laundering Control Act (MLCA) and Terrorism Financing Prevention Act (TFPA). Maintains the national AML/CFT sanction list.

  • MOI

    Ministry of the Interior, issues the National Identity Card and governs household registration data under the Household Registration Act. Enforces the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) for identity data processing.

  • CBC

    Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), issues monetary policy guidance and supervises foreign exchange operations. Cooperates with FSC on payment-system oversight and AML compliance for financial institutions.

  • SFB

    Securities and Futures Bureau under the FSC, supervises securities exchanges, futures markets, and asset-management firms. Issues KYC/AML rules binding on securities dealers under the Securities and Exchange Act.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Taiwan 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.

  • National Identity Card (國民身分證), Taiwan Passport (NFC chip read on e-Passport), Alien Resident Certificate (ARC), Alien Permanent Resident Certificate (APRC), and Driver's Licence.
  • Returns: full name, 10-character ID number, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • National Identity Card (國民身分證)
  • Taiwan Passport, NFC chip read on e-Passport
  • Alien Resident Certificate (ARC)
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 Taiwan watchlists:

  • Anti-Money Laundering Division (AMLD), Ministry of Justice, Taiwan's national AML/CFT sanction list under the Money Laundering Control Act.
  • Financial Supervisory Commission, Securities and Futures Bureau, FSC enforcement targets in the capital-markets sector.
  • Financial Supervisory Commission (Insurance Bureau), FSC regulatory warnings and sanctions for insurance-sector entities.
  • National Assembly of Taiwan (Legislative Yuan), PEP Level 1 register for legislators and senior government officials.
  • Taipei City Government, PEP Level 4 municipal officials and city-government designees.
  • Tainan City Council, PEP Level 4 local government officials.
  • 富邦金控 Fubon Financial, State-Invested Enterprise (SIE) register for state-connected financial institutions.
  • FATF, Financial Action Task Force global designations and high-risk jurisdictions.
  • UN Security Council, Consolidated Sanctions List.
  • OFAC SDN, U.S. Specially Designated Nationals list.
  • Interpol, Red Notices for internationally wanted persons.
  • APG, Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering regional designations.

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

Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Taiwan currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Ministry of the Interior Household Registration database does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure

Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Taiwan 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 Taiwan.

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 Taiwan.

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 Taiwanese regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Five regulators sit on top of every Taiwanese identity-verification flow:

  • Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), Taiwan's integrated financial supervisor. Sets KYC/AML obligations for banks, securities firms, payment institutions and insurance companies under the Money Laundering Control Act (MLCA), last amended 2021.
  • Anti-Money Laundering Division (AMLD), Ministry of Justice, Taiwan's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and maintains the national AML/CFT sanction list under the Terrorism Financing Prevention Act (TFPA) 2021.
  • Ministry of the Interior (MOI), issues the National Identity Card and governs household registration. Enforces the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2022 for identity data processing.
  • Securities and Futures Bureau (SFB) under the FSC, supervises capital-markets KYC under the Securities and Exchange Act.
  • Central Bank of the Republic of China (CBC), cooperates with the FSC on payment-system oversight and AML compliance.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all of them at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Which Taiwanese documents does Didit accept on a verification session?

Didit accepts every primary Taiwanese identity credential:

  • National Identity Card (國民身分證), the 10-character civil identity credential with 10-digit uniform civil code. New chip-enabled variant issued from 2021.
  • Taiwan Passport (中華民國護照), ICAO 9303-compliant biometric passport. Chip-enabled variants captured via NFC.
  • Alien Resident Certificate (ARC / 外僑居留證), residence credential for foreign nationals with a 10-digit uniform civil code.
  • Alien Permanent Resident Certificate (APRC / 外僑永久居留證), permanent-residence credential for long-term foreign residents.
  • Driver's Licence (汽機車駕駛執照), supplementary identity proof via document-template parse.
  • Overseas Compatriot Identity Certificate, issued by the Overseas Community Affairs Council for diaspora Taiwanese.

The broader Didit catalogue covers 14,000+ document types globally, the same Taiwan session also accepts foreign-issued passports for cross-border onboarding.

Does Didit cover Taiwan's AML/CFT obligations for FSC-licensed entities?

Yes. The Money Laundering Control Act (MLCA) and the FSC's implementing regulations impose Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), and ongoing monitoring obligations on all FSC-supervised entities, banks, securities firms, payment institutions, and virtual-asset service providers (VASPs).

Didit covers the regulated stack on one workflow:

  • Identity Document Verification, full OCR + authenticity check on the National Identity Card, Passport, and ARC.
  • Active Liveness + Face Match 1:1, biometric assurance at the level FSC examiners expect.
  • AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against 1,300+ lists including AMLD/Ministry of Justice, FSC-SFB, FSC Insurance Bureau, UN Security Council, OFAC SDN, and APG designations.
  • Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation under the MLCA.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Taiwan?

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, 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 Taiwan stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

What does the Taiwan 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.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT), $0.15 per check.

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