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CPR-driven identity cross-checked against the Danish Civil Registration system — Finanstilsynet-aligned, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Denmark.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Danish identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on Copenhagen's neobank and crypto cluster (Lunar, Coinify, Saxo), document forgery against the Danish driving licence and residence permit, and AML pressure on the high-velocity Nordic-Baltic payments corridor. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Hvidvaskloven (Danish Anti-Money Laundering Act)
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • DORA
  • GDPR / Danish Data Protection Act
  • PSD2
  • eIDAS 2.0
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Denmark.

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

    Danish Financial Supervisory Authority. Supervises banks, payment institutions, electronic-money institutions, and crypto-asset service providers under the Hvidvaskloven (Danish Anti-Money Laundering Act).

  • Hvidvasksekretariatet

    Danish Financial Intelligence Unit, sitting inside the State Prosecutor for Serious Economic and International Crime (SØIK). Receives every suspicious activity report.

  • Datatilsynet

    Danish Data Protection Agency. GDPR supervisor under the Danish Data Protection Act for every identity verification on Danish residents.

  • Skat

    Danish Tax Agency. Co-owns the CPR Civil Registration system that backs every Danish identity verification.

  • Spillemyndigheden

    Danish Gambling Authority. Licenses online operators with mandatory KYC + AML controls.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Denmark 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.

  • Works for every primary Danish credential — Pas (with the chip read on e-Passports), Kørekort, Opholdskort, and the Sundhedskort yellow health card.
  • Returns the name, CPR number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Pas — chip read on e-Passport
  • Kørekort · Opholdskort
  • Sundhedskort (CPR card)
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 Danish watchlists:

  • Danish Immigration Service — Banned Religious Preachers (Sanctions) — individuals barred from entering Denmark under the Preacher Ban legislation.
  • Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority) — operator warnings — enforcement warnings and disciplinary actions against licensed gambling operators.
  • Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) — State-Invested Enterprise register entries — state-invested entity designations with Danish nexus.
  • European Union — Consolidated List of EU Financial Sanctions — full EU asset-freeze and travel-ban register.
  • EU Consolidated List of Travel Bans — EU-wide travel restriction register.
  • United Nations Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global UN sanctions.

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

Cross-check against the Danish Civil Registration system.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Civil Registration check (dnk_national_id, $1.39, ~100% coverage) is the authoritative-source CPR lookup with name + DOB + national-ID cross-check.
  • The Combined-records check (dnk_consumer_2, $0.97, ~50% coverage) hits a combined dataset of consumer, telephone, and utility records — useful for proof-of-address-grade onboarding.
  • The Consumer check (dnk_consumer, $0.09, ~10% coverage) hits an aggregated consumer dataset for soft-signal verification.
Read the docs
Stage 04Cross-check against the Danish Civil Registration system

Cross-check against the Danish Civil Registration system — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Denmark 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.
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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 Denmark.

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