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Armenia's Central Bank and Financial Monitoring Center enforce AML/CFT across a rapidly growing tech-driven economy — Didit delivers ID, liveness, AML, and the $0.33 bundle at 500 free checks per month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Armenia.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Armenia's tech-led economy and growing crypto sector face mounting deepfake and synthetic-identity fraud risk, with cross-border exposure via Russian diaspora financial corridors and emerging EU fintech integrations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing 2008 (as amended 2022)
  • FATF 40 Recommendations
  • MONEYVAL evaluation framework
  • Law on Personal Data Protection of the Republic of Armenia
  • CBA Regulations on AML/CFT Compliance
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Armenia.

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

    Հայաստանի Կենտրոնական բանկ (Central Bank of Armenia) — primary regulator for banks, payment institutions, insurance, and investment companies. Enforces AML/CFT under the Law on Combating Money Laundering 2008 (as amended 2022). Maintains the CBA Punishments register and domestic sanctions lists.

  • FMC

    Financial Monitoring Center of Armenia — national FIU operating under the CBA. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports and coordinates with MONEYVAL on AML effectiveness evaluations.

  • Armenia Nuclear Regulatory Authority

    PEP Level 2 regulatory body — senior officials designated in the Didit AML screening layer under Armenia's PEP framework for nuclear sector regulators.

  • Office of the Representative on International Legal Matters

    Regulatory warnings body — issues AML-related warnings that appear in Didit's Armenia watchlist screening layer.

  • Armenian National Congress

    PEP Level 1 political institution — senior officials designated under Armenia's AML PEP framework and included in the Didit screening layer.

  • Ministry of High-Tech Industry

    PEP Level 2 ministry — supervises Armenia's tech and crypto sectors. Senior officials designated in the Didit AML screening layer as required by the Law on Combating Money Laundering 2008.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Armenia database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the Armenian ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Անձնագիր (ICAO 9303 biometric passport with chip), Նույնականացման քարտ (national ID card), Վարորդական Իրավունք, and Կացության Թույլտվություն.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the Armenian ID
  • Անձնագիր (biometric passport) — NFC chip read
  • Նույնականացման քարտ (national identity card)
  • Վարորդական Իրավունք (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 Armenia watchlists:

  • Armenian National Congress — PEP Level 1 (senior political officials).
  • Armenia Nuclear Regulatory Authority — PEP Level 2 (nuclear sector regulators).
  • Ministry of Defence (Armenia) — PEP Level 2 (senior defense officials).
  • Ministry of High-Tech Industry (Armenia) — PEP Level 2 (tech/crypto sector regulators).
  • Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran — SIE (state-invested entity).
  • Central Bank of Armenia — Punishments register — domestic targeted financial sanctions.
  • Central Bank of Armenia — Domestic Lists — targeted financial sanctions.
  • Office of The Representative on International Legal Matters — Armenia-specific warnings.
  • FMC (Financial Monitoring Center) — SAR-derived AML designations.
  • MONEYVAL — Council of Europe AML evaluation findings.
  • FATF 40 Recommendations — risk-jurisdiction monitoring.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global designations.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations.
  • Interpol Notices — international law enforcement designations.
  • Basel AML Index — annual risk-scoring for Armenia.

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

Document validation — no public registry API in Armenia.

There is no public government database validation API for Armenia currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Republic of Armenia Police passport and civil registry system does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Document validation — no public registry API in Armenia

Document validation — no public registry API in Armenia — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Armenia 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 Armenia.

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 Armenia.

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