Identity verification
built for United Kingdom 
British passport, DVLA driving licence and BRP on one session, cross-checked against UK electoral roll + credit bureau data — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in United Kingdom.
- Fraud landscape
- UK identity fraud is shaped by impersonation attacks on neobank and crypto-on-ramp onboarding, deepfake and injection attacks on remote video-ID flows, and DVLA driving-licence forgery driving cross-vertical synthetic-ID fraud. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- UK Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLR 2017)
- FCA Senior Managers Regime
- JMLSG guidance
- OFSI consolidated sanctions
- UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018
- Online Safety Act 2023
Who supervises identity verification in United Kingdom.
FCA
Financial Conduct Authority — supervises banks, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, crypto-asset firms, and consumer credit lenders under the Senior Managers Regime.
HMT / OFSI
His Majesty's Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation — maintains and enforces the UK consolidated sanctions list.
ICO
Information Commissioner's Office — supervises UK GDPR (Data Protection Act 2018) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
Gambling Commission
Licenses and regulates online and remote gambling operators in Great Britain. Issued under the Gambling Act 2005 and updated under the 2023 White Paper.
JMLSG
Joint Money Laundering Steering Group — publishes the FCA-endorsed AML guidance for the UK financial sector. Didit returns the JMLSG evidence shape on every session.
Companies House
UK statutory company register. Authoritative source for KYB registry, Persons with Significant Control (PSC), and officer data.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every primary UK credential — British passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), DVLA driving licence, Biometric Residence Permit (BRP), every EU/EEA national identity card, UK Visa vignettes, and the PASS proof-of-age card.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry. The DVLA Developer Portal lookup runs inside the same module at no per-check surcharge.
- British passport — chip read on e-Passport
- DVLA driving licence (photocard)
- Biometric Residence Permit (BRP)
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. Age Estimation ($0.10) is also available for Online Safety Act 2023 age-gating.
- 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 UK watchlists:
- Government of United Kingdom — The UK Sanctions List (Sanctions) — HMT / OFSI consolidated UK autonomous sanctions list; asset-freeze and travel-ban designations.
- House of Commons of the United Kingdom (Pep Level 1) — Members of Parliament and senior parliamentary officials.
- National Cyber Security Centre (Pep Level 2) — senior NCSC officials and government cybersecurity figures.
- University of St. Andrews (Pep Level 2) — senior academic and public-sector officials at the historic Scottish institution.
- Local Government Association (LGA) (Pep Level 3) — senior local-government officials across England and Wales.
- Lambeth London Borough Council · London Borough of Hackney · Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Pep Level 4) — borough-level councillors and senior executives.
- Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project — OCCRP (SIE) — investigative-journalism-sourced organized crime and corruption exposure.
- Bradford Telegraph and Argus (SIP) — regional adverse-media signals.
- Global Influence Operations Report (Warnings) — disinformation and influence-operation actor warnings.
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 UK electoral roll + credit bureau.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The Citizens check (
gbr_kingdom_citizens, ~70% coverage) hits government-sourced electoral-roll data directly — the authoritative-source check JMLSG calls out for tier-1 KYC. - The Residential check (
gbr_kingdom_residential, ~90% coverage) is the highest-coverage low-cost first pass for name + address matching across aggregated government and public records. - The Credit Bureau check (
gbr_kingdom_credit_bureau, ~85% coverage, $1.07, consent required) hits UK credit-header data for the deepest authoritative-source signal — the right pick when MLR 2017 calls for enhanced due diligence. - Financial Services (
gbr_kingdom_financial_services, ~85%), Phone (gbr_kingdom_phone, >50%), Phone 2 (gbr_kingdom_phone_2, >75%), and Consumer ($0.09) complete the picture.
Cross-check against the UK electoral roll + credit bureau — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every United Kingdom document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for United Kingdom.
United Kingdom — Citizens (electoral roll)
Source: Government-sourced electoral roll data. $0.75 per successful query. Coverage ~70% of adult population.
United Kingdom — Residential
Source: Aggregated government, public, background, and professional records. $0.21 per successful query. Coverage ~90% of adult population.
United Kingdom — Credit Bureau
Source: UK Credit Bureau credit-header data. $1.07 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~85% of adult population.
United Kingdom — Financial Services
Source: Aggregated government, public, and background records. $0.95 per successful query. Coverage ~85% of adult population.
United Kingdom — Phone (telco billing)
Source: Telco billing records. $0.36 per successful query. Coverage >50% of phone lines.
United Kingdom — Phone 2 (MNO data)
Source: Mobile network operator data. $0.96 per successful query. Coverage >75% of mobile lines.
United Kingdom — Consumer
Source: Lead-generation consumer profile database. $0.09 per successful query. Coverage ~5% of adult population.
AML lists screened in United Kingdom
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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