Identity verification
built for Trinidad & Tobago 
Trinidad and Tobago National ID and Passport verified with biometric liveness, AML screening including the FIU T&T watchlist and TTSEC warnings, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Trinidad & Tobago.
- Fraud landscape
- Trinidad and Tobago faces identity fraud pressures from transnational organised crime linked to the energy sector, synthetic-identity fraud in fintech and money-transfer onboarding, and elevated PEP risk through the House of Assembly and energy-sector state-enterprise networks. The TTSEC warnings list adds a capital-market-specific fraud screening layer unique to the jurisdiction. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Proceeds of Crime Act 2000 (as amended 2022)
- Financial Obligations Regulations (FOR), CBTT 2010
- Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago Act 2009
- Securities Act 2012
- Data Protection Act 2011
- CFATF Mutual Evaluation 2016 (enhanced follow-up ongoing)
- FATF Methodology 2022
Who supervises identity verification in Trinidad & Tobago.
CBTT
Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, prudential supervisor for banks, non-bank financial institutions, insurance companies, and credit unions. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2000 and the Financial Obligations Regulations.
FIU-TT
Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago, receives suspicious-transaction reports under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2000 and coordinates with CFATF on AML enforcement. Maintains the national financial-crime intelligence watchlist.
TTSEC
Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission, supervises capital-market intermediaries, investment dealers, and collective-investment schemes. Maintains the regulatory warnings list relevant to securities-sector AML screening.
CFATF
Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, the FATF-style regional body. Trinidad and Tobago is a member and subject to mutual evaluation and follow-up under FATF methodology.
EBC
Elections and Boundaries Commission, the civil authority that issues the National Identification Card and maintains the authoritative voter and identity registry for Trinidadian and Tobagonian nationals.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the National ID or Passport.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identification Card (EBC), Passport (chip read on biometric passports), Certificate of Registration, and Driver's Permit.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
- National Identification Card, EBC-issued
- Passport, chip read on biometric e-Passport
- Certificate of Registration (Permanent Resident)
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.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Trinidad and Tobago watchlists:
- House of Assembly of Trinidad and Tobago, PEP Level 1 legislative register
- FIU-TT, Financial Intelligence Unit suspicious-person (SIP) enforcement list
- TTSEC, Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission warnings
- CBTT, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago administrative sanctions
- CFATF, Caribbean Financial Action Task Force mutual evaluations
- FATF, Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
- UN Security Council, consolidated sanctions list
- OFAC SDN, Specially Designated Nationals
- Interpol, Caribbean-region red notices
- FinCEN, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network advisories
- CARICOM IMPACS, regional crime and security intelligence
- Basel AML Index, Trinidad and Tobago country risk tier
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.
Database validation against the EBC registry.
- There is no public government database validation API for Trinidad and Tobago currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation against the EBC registry , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Trinidad & Tobago document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Trinidad & Tobago.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Trinidad & Tobago.
What is Didit?
Didit is infrastructure for identity and fraud, the platform we wished existed when we were building products ourselves: open, flexible, and developer-friendly, so it works as a real part of your stack instead of a black box you integrate around.
One API covers verifying people (KYC, know your customer), verifying businesses (KYB, know your business), screening crypto wallets (KYT, know your transaction), and monitoring transactions in real time, on a stack built to be:
- Fast, sub-2-second p99 on every session
- Reliable, in production with 1,500+ companies across 220+ countries
- Secure, SOC 2 Type 1, ISO 27001, GDPR-native, and formally attested by Spain's financial regulator as safer than verifying someone in person
The footprint underneath: 14,000+ document types in 48+ languages, 1,000+ data sources, and 200+ fraud signals on every session. The Didit infrastructure dynamically learns from every session and gets better every day.
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.
Which regulators govern identity verification for digital onboarding in Trinidad and Tobago?
Five authorities sit on top of every Trinidad and Tobago identity-verification flow:
- Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT), prudential supervisor for banks, non-bank financial institutions, and credit unions. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2000 and the Financial Obligations Regulations (FOR).
- Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago (FIU-TT), receives suspicious-transaction reports and coordinates with CFATF on AML enforcement.
- Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission (TTSEC), supervises capital-market intermediaries and maintains the regulatory warnings list.
- Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), the FATF-style regional body. T&T is subject to mutual evaluation and enhanced follow-up.
- Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC), the civil authority that issues the National Identification Card.
Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + 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.
Is Didit ready for CBTT-supervised KYC under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2000?
Yes. The Proceeds of Crime Act 2000 (as amended 2022) and the Financial Obligations Regulations (FOR) require every CBTT-supervised institution, bank, credit union, money-services business, to verify customer identity and screen for AML risk before onboarding.
Didit covers the full stack on one workflow:
- Identity Document Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match 1:1 for the tier-1 onboarding check.
- AML Screening ($0.20 per check) against the global pool plus T&T watchlists, FIU-TT SIP list, House of Assembly PEP register, TTSEC warnings.
- Ongoing AML monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the FOR periodic-review obligation.
Does Didit screen against the FIU-TT and TTSEC watchlists?
Yes, both the FIU-TT enforcement list and the TTSEC warnings list are included in every AML screening check. These are two of 1,300+ global sources screened in real time when you call POST /v3/session/ with the AML module enabled.
The TTSEC warnings list is especially important for fintech and capital-market operators in T&T, it flags entities that have received regulatory warnings from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Screening is severity-scored and ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily.
How long does it take to integrate Didit for Trinidad and Tobago?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. - 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 T&T stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
What does the Trinidad and Tobago verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check. - Passive Liveness,
$0.10. Active Liveness,$0.15. - Face Match 1:1,
$0.05. Face Search 1:N, free. - AML Screening,
$0.20per check. Ongoing AML,$0.07 per user / year.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.