Identity verification
built for Kenya 
National ID Card and Passport on one session, cross-checked against the National Registration Bureau — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Kenya.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Kenyan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks targeting M-Pesa-connected fintechs and the wave of crypto on/off-ramps, National ID Card forgery across the legacy and Huduma transitional formats, 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
- POCAMLA (Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2009)
- Data Protection Act 2019
- CBK Prudential Guideline on AML/CFT
- National Payment System Act 2011
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Kenya.
CBK
Central Bank of Kenya — prudential supervisor for banks, microfinance institutions, payment service providers, and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) under the 2025 VASP Bill.
CMA
Capital Markets Authority — securities and capital-markets supervisor. Sets remote-onboarding requirements for licensed brokers and fund managers.
FRC
Financial Reporting Centre — Kenya's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under POCAMLA (Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2009).
ODPC
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner — enforces the Data Protection Act 2019. Governs every identity verification on Kenyan residents.
IPRS
Integrated Population Registration System — operated by the National Registration Bureau. Maintains the authoritative civil registry used by every Kenyan KYC flow.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National ID Card, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), driving licence, and Alien ID Card for foreign residents.
- Returns the name, ID number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- National ID Card
- Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Driving Licence · Alien ID Card
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 Kenyan watchlists:
- National Assembly of Kenya — Members of Parliament and senior legislative-branch officials (PEP Level 1).
- Kenya Tourism Board — state-parastatal officials and board members.
- Kenya Rural Roads Authority — state-agency officials and senior management.
- Nairobi Securities Exchange — listed-company enforcement actions and exchange disciplinary decisions.
- County Government of Kisii — county executive and assembly officials (PEP Level 3-4).
- Bomet County Government — county executive and assembly officials (PEP Level 3-4).
- ADB — Asian Development Bank (Nairobi) — multilateral development bank debarment and sanctions list.
- Kenyan Wall Street — adverse-media signals from Kenya's leading financial journalism outlet.
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 the National Registration Bureau.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The `ken_national_id` service is the canonical POCAMLA authoritative-source check. ~90% adult-population coverage.
- Pay-per-success:
$3.15per conclusive result. No charge when the registry is unreachable or required fields are missing. - No user consent required — Didit handles the National Registration Bureau contract directly.
Cross-check against the National Registration Bureau — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Kenya document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Kenya.
Kenya National ID
Source: National Registration Bureau. $3.15 per successful query. Coverage ~90% of adult population.
AML lists screened in Kenya
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 Kenya.
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