Identity verification
built for Hong Kong SAR China 
HKID and Passport on one session, with HKMA-aligned AML screening and a Land Registry residential cross-check — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
Trusted by 2,000+ organizations worldwide.
How identity verification works in Hong Kong SAR China.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Hong Kong identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-HKID attacks across the post-pandemic remote-onboarding boom for retail banking and stored-value-facility (SVF) e-wallets, virtual-asset trading platform (VATP) onboarding pressure following the SFC's June 2023 licensing regime, and cross-border identity fraud from non-Hong Kong passports presented at remote onboarding. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AMLO (Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance)
- HKMA Supervisory Policy Manual AML-1
- SFC VATP Licensing Regime (June 2023)
- Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486)
- Banking Ordinance (Cap. 155)
- Payment Systems and Stored Value Facilities Ordinance
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Hong Kong SAR China.
HKMA
Hong Kong Monetary Authority — de facto central bank and prudential supervisor for every Authorized Institution (licensed banks, restricted-licence banks, deposit-taking companies) and Stored Value Facility (SVF) operator. Sets AML/CFT requirements via Supervisory Policy Manual AML-1.
SFC
Securities and Futures Commission — securities supervisor and licensor for Virtual Asset Trading Platforms (VATP) under the AMLO-amended regime that took effect June 2023.
JFIU
Joint Financial Intelligence Unit — Hong Kong's Financial Intelligence Unit, run jointly by the Hong Kong Police Force and Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AMLO and the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
PCPD
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data — enforces the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO, Cap. 486). Governs how identity-verification data is collected, used, retained and disclosed.
Immigration Department
Immigration Department of Hong Kong — issues every HKID and HKSAR Passport and controls entry / exit. The authoritative civil-registry authority for citizens, permanent residents and non-permanent residents.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every Hong Kong credential — HKID (the current Smart ID polycarbonate format), HKSAR Passport with the chip read on e-Passports, the Hong Kong Driving Licence, plus foreign passports for the city's large expat population.
- Returns the name (English + Chinese), HKID number, date of birth, sex and code-of-residency markers.
- HKID (Smart ID polycarbonate)
- HKSAR Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Foreign passports across 220+ jurisdictions
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 Hong Kong watchlists:
- HKMA Register of Securities Staff of Authorized Institutions — staff of HKMA-supervised entities subject to fit-and-proper requirements.
- HKMA Fraudulent Websites and Alerts — entities flagged by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority for unlicensed or suspicious activity.
- SFC Public Register of Licensed Persons — licensed securities and futures intermediaries and restricted persons.
- SFC Alert List — suspicious websites and unlicensed entities flagged by the Securities and Futures Commission.
- Hong Kong Police Force Anti-Deception Coordination Centre — fraud alerts and deception-related enforcement targets.
- JFIU Suspicious Transaction references — Joint Financial Intelligence Unit persons of interest under AMLO and the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance.
- Customs and Excise Department — trade-based money laundering enforcement watchlist.
- OFAC — US sanctions applicable to Hong Kong-nexus entities and individuals.
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.
Cross-check against residential and utility records.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The Hong Kong Residential check (
hkg_kong_residential,$1.02, >70% coverage) hits a government-agency database of property-ownership data for full name + address cross-check. - The Hong Kong Utility check (
hkg_kong_utility,$1.65, ~35% coverage) hits combined consumer, telephone and utility records — useful as a Proof-of-Address signal for HKMA SPM AML-1 onboarding.
Cross-check against residential and utility records — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Hong Kong SAR China document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Hong Kong SAR China.
Hong Kong Residential (government property-ownership)
Source: Government agency database — property-ownership data. $1.02 per successful query. Coverage >70% of adult population.
Hong Kong Utility (consumer + telephone + utility records)
Source: Consumer, telephone and utility records. $1.65 per successful query. Coverage ~35% of adult population.
AML lists screened in Hong Kong SAR China
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Hong Kong SAR China.
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