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Henkilötunnus cross-checked against the Finnish Identity Card issuing agency — FIN-FSA-aligned, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Finland.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Finnish identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on Helsinki's neobank and crypto cluster (Holvi, Northcrypto, Coinmotion), document forgery against the Finnish 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
  • Finnish AML Act (Laki rahanpesun ja terrorismin rahoittamisen estämisestä)
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • DORA
  • GDPR / Finnish Data Protection Act
  • PSD2
  • eIDAS 2.0
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Finland.

These are the supervisors a Finland verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • Finanssivalvonta (FIN-FSA)

    Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority. Supervises banks, payment institutions, electronic-money institutions, and crypto-asset service providers under the Finnish AML Act (Laki rahanpesun ja terrorismin rahoittamisen estämisestä).

  • Rahanpesun Selvittelykeskus

    Finland's Financial Intelligence Unit, sitting inside the National Bureau of Investigation (Keskusrikospoliisi). Receives every suspicious activity report.

  • Tietosuojavaltuutettu

    Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman. GDPR supervisor for every identity verification on Finnish residents.

  • Digi- ja väestötietovirasto

    Digital and Population Data Services Agency. Runs the Population Information System (Väestötietojärjestelmä) and issues every henkilötunnus — the authoritative source behind Finnish identity verification.

  • Veikkaus / Arpajaishallinto

    Finnish Gambling Authority oversight under the National Police Board (Poliisihallitus). Supervises licensed gambling operators with mandatory KYC + AML controls.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Finland 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 Finnish credential — Henkilökortti (EU 2019/1157), Passi (with the chip read on e-Passports), Ajokortti, and the Oleskelulupakortti residence permit.
  • Returns the name, henkilötunnus, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Henkilökortti
  • Passi — chip read on e-Passport
  • Ajokortti · Oleskelulupakortti
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.
Read the docs
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 Finnish watchlists:

  • Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (SDP) — PEP Level 1 register — parliamentary PEP register for Eduskunta members.
  • Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (FIKKV) — State-Invested Enterprise + warnings — enforcement decisions and state-entity warnings.
  • 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.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List — U.S. Treasury OFAC 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 Finnish Identity Card issuing agency.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The National ID check (fin_national_id, $2.10, ~100% coverage) is the authoritative lookup against the Finnish Identity Card issuing agency with name + DOB + national-ID cross-check.
  • The Combined-records check (fin_consumer_2, $0.97) hits a combined consumer + household records dataset — useful for proof-of-address-grade onboarding.
  • The Consumer check (fin_consumer, $0.09, ~10% coverage) hits an aggregated consumer dataset for soft-signal verification.
Read the docs
Stage 04Cross-check against the Finnish Identity Card issuing agency

Cross-check against the Finnish Identity Card issuing agency — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Finland 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

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