Identity verification
built for Bahrain 
Bahrain ID Card, GCC ID and Passport on one session, screened against Bahraini regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Bahrain.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Bahraini identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the CBB-licensed crypto-asset service providers and the wider fintech-sandbox cohort, CPR and residence-credential misuse across the expatriate workforce, and AML pressure on cross-border financial flows between the GCC and the wider region. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AML Law (Law 4/2001 and amendments)
- Personal Data Protection Law (Law 30/2018)
- CBB Rulebook (Volumes 1-6, including AML module)
- CBB Crypto-Asset Module
- CBB Regulatory Sandbox Framework
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Bahrain.
CBB
Central Bank of Bahrain — single integrated supervisor for banks, payment service providers, crypto-asset service providers, insurance firms, and capital-markets firms. Sets remote-onboarding requirements through the CBB Rulebook (Volumes 1-6) and operates the CBB Regulatory Sandbox.
PDPA Authority
Personal Data Protection Authority — enforces the Personal Data Protection Law (Law 30/2018). Governs every identity verification on Bahraini residents.
Bahrain FIU
Bahrain Financial Intelligence Unit — receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML Law (Law 4/2001 and its amendments).
iGA
Information & eGovernment Authority — issues the Bahrain ID Card (CPR) and runs the national digital-identity infrastructure that underpins every onboarding flow.
MOICT
Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism — Commercial Registry authority responsible for the SIJILAT business registry used in KYB onboarding.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every credential Bahrain actually presents — Bahrain ID Card (CPR — the authoritative 9-digit national identity card), the CPR-format Residence Permit for foreign workers, GCC ID Cards under mutual recognition, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and the Bahraini driving licence.
- Returns the name, CPR number, date of birth, nationality, and expiry.
- Bahrain ID Card (CPR) · Residence Permit
- GCC ID Card · Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Driving Licence
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 Bahraini watchlists:
- Bahrain Financial Intelligence Unit (BFU) — Suspicious Transaction Report watchlist.
- Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) — regulatory enforcement and suspended-licence list.
- Ministry of Interior (MOI) Bahrain — security blacklists and deportation orders.
- National Security Apparatus (NSA) Bahrain — anti-terrorism designations.
- GCC PEP register — cross-member politically exposed persons.
- Supreme Council for Environment — PEP Level 1 register.
- Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) — PEP Level 2 register.
- National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) — regulatory warnings.
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.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- The full bundle anchors at $0.33 per session — same price worldwide.
- Add Ongoing AML Monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation the CBB Rulebook expects.
- Bahrain does not currently expose a public consumer or government API for direct authoritative-registry lookups — the iGA population register is accessible only through licensed data-partner integrations on Enterprise. Talk to sales to wire that into your workflow.
Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Bahrain document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Bahrain.
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Common questions about Bahrain.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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