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Trinidad and Tobago National ID and Passport verified with biometric liveness — AML screening including the FIU T&T watchlist and TTSEC warnings — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Trinidad & Tobago.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Trinidad and Tobago faces identity fraud pressures from transnational organised crime linked to the energy sector, synthetic-identity fraud in fintech and money-transfer onboarding, and elevated PEP risk through the House of Assembly and energy-sector state-enterprise networks. The TTSEC warnings list adds a capital-market-specific fraud screening layer unique to the jurisdiction. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Proceeds of Crime Act 2000 (as amended 2022)
  • Financial Obligations Regulations (FOR) — CBTT 2010
  • Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago Act 2009
  • Securities Act 2012
  • Data Protection Act 2011
  • CFATF Mutual Evaluation 2016 (enhanced follow-up ongoing)
  • FATF Methodology 2022
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Trinidad & Tobago.

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

    Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago — prudential supervisor for banks, non-bank financial institutions, insurance companies, and credit unions. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2000 and the Financial Obligations Regulations.

  • FIU-TT

    Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago — receives suspicious-transaction reports under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2000 and coordinates with CFATF on AML enforcement. Maintains the national financial-crime intelligence watchlist.

  • TTSEC

    Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission — supervises capital-market intermediaries, investment dealers, and collective-investment schemes. Maintains the regulatory warnings list relevant to securities-sector AML screening.

  • CFATF

    Caribbean Financial Action Task Force — the FATF-style regional body. Trinidad and Tobago is a member and subject to mutual evaluation and follow-up under FATF methodology.

  • EBC

    Elections and Boundaries Commission — the civil authority that issues the National Identification Card and maintains the authoritative voter and identity registry for Trinidadian and Tobagonian nationals.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Trinidad & Tobago database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the National ID or Passport.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • National Identification Card (EBC), Passport (chip read on biometric passports), Certificate of Registration, and Driver's Permit.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
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Stage 01Capture and read the National ID or Passport
  • National Identification Card — EBC-issued
  • Passport — chip read on biometric e-Passport
  • Certificate of Registration (Permanent Resident)
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 Trinidad and Tobago watchlists:

  • House of Assembly of Trinidad and Tobago — PEP Level 1 legislative register
  • FIU-TT — Financial Intelligence Unit suspicious-person (SIP) enforcement list
  • TTSEC — Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission warnings
  • CBTT — Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago administrative sanctions
  • CFATF — Caribbean Financial Action Task Force mutual evaluations
  • FATF — Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
  • UN Security Council — consolidated sanctions list
  • OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals
  • Interpol — Caribbean-region red notices
  • FinCEN — Financial Crimes Enforcement Network advisories
  • CARICOM IMPACS — regional crime and security intelligence
  • Basel AML Index — Trinidad and Tobago country risk tier

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

Database validation against the EBC registry.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Trinidad and Tobago currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Database validation against the EBC registry

Database validation against the EBC registry — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Trinidad & Tobago 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 Trinidad & Tobago.

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 Trinidad & Tobago.

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