Identity verification
built for Malawi 
Malawi National ID and Passport on one session, screened against Reserve Bank of Malawi, Financial Intelligence Authority, and global AML watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Malawi.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Malawian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money platforms and digital-banking growth, National ID Card forgery, and cross-border AML risk on the Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Financial Crimes Act 2022
- National Registration Act 2009
- Electronic Transactions and Cyber Security Act 2016
- Reserve Bank of Malawi Act (Chapter 44:02)
- ESAAMLG Mutual Evaluation recommendations
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Malawi.
RBM
Reserve Bank of Malawi — central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers. Issues AML/CFT directives for supervised entities.
FIA
Financial Intelligence Authority — Malawi's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the Financial Crimes Act 2022 and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) from regulated entities.
MERA
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority — parallel regulator that reinforces financial-crime reporting standards in the energy and utilities sector intersecting with financial services.
MACRA
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority — enforces electronic-communications and data-protection obligations applicable to digital identity services operating in Malawi.
ACC
Anti-Corruption Bureau Malawi — investigates and prosecutes corruption and economic-crime offences. Lists arrested persons under relevant financial-crime statutes.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National ID Card, Passport (MRZ parsed), driving licence, and residence permit for foreign residents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, NID number, document number, expiry.
- National ID Card (NID)
- Passport — MRZ parsed
- Driving Licence · Residence Permit
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 Malawian watchlists:
- National Assembly of Malawi — Members of Parliament (PEP Level 1) and senior executive-branch officials.
- Anti-Corruption Bureau Malawi — persons arrested or charged under financial-crime and corruption statutes.
- Reserve Bank of Malawi — supervisory enforcement actions and warning notices issued to regulated entities.
- Financial Intelligence Authority Malawi — enforcement notices under the Financial Crimes Act 2022.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions — active multilateral designations covering Malawi-linked entities.
- OFAC SDN List — US Treasury Specially Designated Nationals with Malawi nexus.
- ESAAMLG — Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group regional risk signals.
- Interpol Southern Africa — wanted-persons and fugitive notices relevant to Southern Africa.
- Basel AML Index — country risk score and associated risk signals.
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.
Database validation.
- There is no public government database validation API for Malawi currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the National Registration Bureau does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Malawi document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Malawi.
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Common questions about Malawi.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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