Identity verification
built for Switzerland 
Swiss ID card, biometric passport and residence permit on one FINMA-aligned session — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Switzerland.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Swiss identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-identity attacks on Zug's crypto-asset service providers and Zurich's neobank cluster, sophisticated forgery of the Ausländerausweis residence permit on the cross-border corridor, and FINMA-supervised video-ident replay attacks on private-banking onboarding. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- GwG (Geldwäschereigesetz)
- FINMA AML Ordinance (GwV-FINMA)
- FINMA Circular 2016/7 Video and Online Identification
- EmbA (Embargo Act)
- revFADP / nFADP (Revised Federal Act on Data Protection)
- DLT Act (Distributed Ledger Technology)
Who supervises identity verification in Switzerland.
FINMA
Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht — Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority. Integrated supervisor for banks, securities firms, insurers, payment institutions and crypto-asset service providers (VASPs).
EDÖB
Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter — federal data-protection commissioner. Supervises the revFADP / nFADP (Revised Federal Act on Data Protection), live since September 2023.
MROS
Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (at fedpol) — Switzerland's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under the GwG (Geldwäschereigesetz).
SECO
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs — administers and enforces Switzerland's sanctions regime (EmbA, Embargo Act) and maintains the Swiss Sanctions List.
SNB
Schweizerische Nationalbank — Swiss National Bank. Operates the SIC (Swiss Interbank Clearing) payment system and oversees monetary stability.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Identitätskarte / Carte d'identité, Reisepass (with NFC chip read on e-Passports), Ausländerausweis (B, C, L, G, F variants), Führerausweis, and every EU/EEA national identity card.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of origin, nationality, and expiry.
- Identitätskarte · Carte d'identité
- Reisepass — NFC e-Passport
- Ausländerausweis · Führerausweis
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 Swiss watchlists:
- State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) — List of Sanctioned Individuals, Entities and Organizations — Switzerland's primary sanctions list aligned with UN Security Council and autonomous Swiss designations.
- State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) — Sanctions List — supplementary domestic-sanctions register maintained by SECO.
- FINMA-DU — Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority Enforcement — FINMA enforcement decisions and regulatory sanctions against financial-market participants.
- National Assembly of Switzerland — PEP register — members of the National Council and Council of States (PEP Level 1).
- Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung) — PEP register — senior federal officials and assembly leadership roles.
- HSBC Global Private Banking — SIE — state-invested enterprise register relevant to Swiss private-banking flows.
- Katsura Suzuki GmbH — SIP — adverse-media reference list for Switzerland-domiciled entities.
- MROS (Money Reporting Office Switzerland) — FIU suspicious-activity reports and typology bulletins — Swiss Financial Intelligence Unit alerts under the GwG (Geldwäschereigesetz).
- Hits are scored by severity — a Bundesrat member surfaces as a PEP Level 1, a Nationalrat member as PEP Level 2, sanctions as critical.
- Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Cross-check against the Swiss credit bureau.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The Consumer check (
che_consumer,$0.08, ~10% coverage) is the lead-generation database lookup against name + DOB. - The Credit-bureau check (
che_credit_bureau,$1.05, ~85% coverage, consent required) cross-checks against credit-header data — useful for FINMA-licensed lenders, neobanks running underwriting, and GwG enhanced due diligence on higher-risk customers.
Cross-check against the Swiss credit bureau — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Switzerland document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Switzerland.
Switzerland Consumer
Source: Lead-generation consumer database. $0.08 per successful query. Coverage ~10% of adult population.
Switzerland Credit Bureau
Source: Swiss consumer credit-bureau header data. $1.05 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~85% of adult population.
AML lists screened in Switzerland
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 Switzerland.
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