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Személyazonosító igazolvány (eSzemélyi), útlevél, vezetői engedély on one session — EU 2019/1157 + ICAO 9303 + MNB-aligned. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Hungary.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Two pressures shape Hungarian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-eSzemélyi attacks on the wave of MNB-licensed neobanks and MiCA-supervised crypto exchanges, and cross-border forgery pressure as Hungarian banks onboard Romanian, Slovak, Serbian, and Ukrainian residents under AMLD6 mutual recognition. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Act LIII of 2017 (AML Act)
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • DORA
  • GDPR / Info Act 2011
  • EU Reg. 2019/1157 (eSzemélyi)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Hungary.

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

    Magyar Nemzeti Bank — central bank and unified prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, securities firms, insurers, and Crypto-Asset Service Providers under MiCA.

  • Pénzmosás Elleni Hivatal

    Hungarian Financial Intelligence Unit, inside the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV). Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under Act LIII of 2017.

  • NAIH

    Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság — General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) supervisor. Governs every identity verification on Hungarian residents.

  • GVH

    Gazdasági Versenyhivatal — Hungarian Competition Authority. Issues warnings + decisions referenced in AML screening (GVH SIE list).

  • NAV

    Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal — Hungarian National Tax and Customs Administration. Maintains Canceled tax numbers + Tax-number-deletion sanctions registers.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Hungary 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.

  • eSzemélyi (the chip-enabled személyazonosító igazolvány mandated under EU Reg. 2019/1157), útlevél (with the chip read on e-Passports), vezetői engedély, and tartózkodási engedély for non-EU residents.
  • Returns the name, adóazonosító jel (tax ID), date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • eSzemélyi · Tartózkodási engedély
  • Vezetői engedély
  • Útlevél — chip read on e-Passport
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 Hungarian watchlists:

  • National Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA / NAV) — Canceled tax numbers — entities with cancelled tax identifiers under Hungarian tax law.
  • National Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA / NAV) — Announcement on decisions deleting the tax number — enforcement decisions on tax-number deletion.
  • Hungarian Police — Warnings — law enforcement warnings register.
  • Hungary Competition Authority (GVH — Gazdasági Versenyhivatal) — Sanctions for Irregularities (SIE) — competition-authority enforcement decisions.
  • National Assembly of Hungary — Politically Exposed Persons (Pep Level 1) — Országgyűlés member PEP register.
  • Attorney General's Office of Hungary — PEP register — senior prosecutorial and judicial PEPs.
  • ZAOL (Zala vármegyei hírportál) — Adverse media (SIP) — regional adverse-media signals.

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

Cross-check against the Hungary residential registry.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Hungary Residential check (hun_residential, $1.14) hits combined consumer and public records — proof-of-address for MNB account opening, securities onboarding, and EMI compliance.
  • Required inputs include date_of_birth for stronger identity binding. No consent required.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the Hungary residential registry

Cross-check against the Hungary residential registry — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Hungary 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 Hungary.

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 Hungary.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

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