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Ghana Card, Passport and Driver's Licence on one session, screened against Ghana regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Ghana.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Ghanaian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the wave of MoMo-connected fintechs and digital wallets, Ghana Card and Driver's Licence forgery during the GhanaCard transition, and AML pressure on cross-border remittance corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Anti-Money Laundering Act 1044/2020
  • Data Protection Act 843/2012
  • Payment Systems and Services Act 987/2019
  • Bank of Ghana KYC and CDD Guidelines
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Ghana.

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

    Bank of Ghana — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, and electronic-money issuers under the Payment Systems and Services Act 987/2019.

  • SEC Ghana

    Securities and Exchange Commission — capital-markets supervisor. Sets remote-onboarding rules for licensed brokers, fund managers, and investment advisors.

  • FIC

    Financial Intelligence Centre — Ghana's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the Anti-Money Laundering Act 1044/2020.

  • DPC

    Data Protection Commission — independent body that enforces the Data Protection Act 843/2012. Governs every identity verification on Ghanaian residents.

  • NIA

    National Identification Authority — issuer of the Ghana Card and the GhanaCard Personal Identification Number. Maintains the authoritative national identity register.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Ghana 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.

  • Ghana Card (with the GhanaCard PIN parsed), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driver's Licence, and Voter ID Card.
  • Returns the name, GhanaCard PIN, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Ghana Card
  • Passport — chip read on e-Passport
  • Driver's Licence · Voter ID 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 Ghanaian watchlists:

  • Ghana Railway Corporation — PEP Level 1 — senior officers of the national railway state enterprise.
  • Ghana Maritime Authority — PEP Level 1 — senior maritime regulatory officials.
  • Ghana Police Service — PEP Level 2 — law-enforcement officers and wanted-persons notices.
  • Office of the Attorney General — PEP Level 2 — prosecutorial enforcement and enforcement notices.
  • New Patriotic Party (NPP) — PEP Level 1-2 — ruling-party and senior-party PEPs.
  • Bank of Ghana — PEP Level 3 — central-bank senior officials.
  • National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) — PEP Level 3 — pensions regulator officials.
  • Accra Metropolitan Assembly — PEP Level 4 — metropolitan-level local-government officials.
  • Registrar's General Department — Warnings — regulatory warnings and debarment notices.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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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

Bind every check to one audited session.

Ghana does not currently expose a public consumer government API for civil-registry lookups — no database validation service exists for the National Identification Authority (NIA) Ghana Card register.

  • The Ghana Card is read end-to-end on the hosted flow: full OCR of the GhanaCard Personal Identification Number, name, date of birth, place of issue, expiry, and template authenticity check.
  • Wire ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML into a single workflow. The full bundle anchors at $0.33 per session with a tamper-evident audit log a FIC-supervised compliance team can hand to BoG under the AML Act 1044/2020.
  • An authoritative-source Ghana Card lookup via the NIA is on the upcoming Database Validation roadmap — Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Ghana 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 Ghana.

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 Ghana.

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