KYC in the UAEfor a queue of 200 nationalities
We read the Emirates ID and passports from 180+ countries, check liveness and match the selfie against the document photo. Arabic and Latin fields come through in the same pass.
One API covers onboarding for a bank, an exchange house or a free-zone fintech — no paper forms, no branch visit.
الإمارات العربية المتحدة · United Arab Emirates
بطاقة الهوية · Emirates ID
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98.7%face ↔ documentOne flow for a resident and for a tourist
OCR extracts the visual zone and cross-checks it against the MRZ. Arabic and Latin scripts are read in the same pass, so a document does not need a separate branch in your flow.
Emirates ID
The resident's main document: visual zone, MRZ, ID number. Read for citizens and residence-visa holders alike.
Passports of 180+ countries
The everyday case here, not the exception: biometric and older series, MRZ, validity, holder photo for face match.
Driving licence
For flows where a passport is optional: rentals, sharing, delivery, driver checks.
Residence visas and permits
433+ document types in total. A new resident, a visitor and a citizen go through the same check — the type is detected automatically.
Whatever lands in the frame, the document is detected automatically; its type and country come back in the API response, so your flow branches on data rather than on a guess.
Built around UAE regulators' requirements
You answer to the Central Bank, to a free-zone regulator, or to both. We supply the tools that meet the requirement — and the log that proves it was met.
Remote onboarding
Onboarding a customer without a branch visit rests on proving the document belongs to the person presenting it. Liveness and face match produce that evidence; our liveness is tested to ISO/IEC 30107-3 against presentation attacks.
Federal Decree-Law No. 20 of 2018
Customer due diligence and screening against lists are baseline duties of a financial institution and a DNFBP alike. AML screening — sanctions, PEPs, wanted lists — runs in the same request as the document check.
PDPL — Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021
Data handling follows the federal PDPL and the GDPR: we collect only what the check needs; retention period and storage location are configured to your policy, DIFC and ADGM regimes included.
A free-zone entity may answer to the DFSA or the FSRA instead of the federal regime, and the rules differ. The final compliance call belongs to your compliance officer; we provide the tooling and the evidence for it.
The parts of the platform UAE onboarding needs
Every module has its own page with a demo and metrics. Plug them in together or one at a time.
Document OCR
Emirates ID and passports from 180+ countries, MRZ, Arabic and Latin
Open module
Liveness
Tells a live person from a photo, a video or a mask
Open module
Face match
Selfie against the document photo
Open module
AML screening
Sanctions, PEPs and wanted lists in the same request
Open module
1:N face search
Duplicate accounts and multi-accounting
Open module
Orchestrator
Flows for a bank, an exchange house or a fintech — no code
Open moduleScenarios for the UAE market
BanksRemote account opening for residents and newcomersExchange houses and lendersThe money goes to the document holder, not to whoever sent it
Payment and fintech licencesWallet and agent onboarding without a branch visit
MarketplacesSellers and couriers with verified identities
Mobility and deliveryThe person driving is the person who passed the checkConnect the way you prefer — AI agents included
Widget, mobile SDKs, REST API and an MCP server. Emirates IDs and foreign passports verify the same in all four; only the way you call it differs.
Web SDK / Flow Widget
A ready camera widget for your site or an in-app browser. Prompts switch language with the applicant, and the design follows your brand book.
Mobile SDK
Native libraries with direct camera access. Biometrics go out in small packets, so a check completes on a hotel connection as readily as on office fibre.
REST API
Direct access to the verification endpoints for your own server logic. Auth by a private X-API-KEY; the result arrives on a webhook.
MCP server for AI agents
An AI agent starts a check and reads the result itself, with no glue code in between. Works with Claude, GPT and any MCP client.
Coverage that matches the queue
A queue of 200 nationalities
In the UAE the foreign passport is the normal case, not the exception — which is exactly where a vendor built around one country's ID starts failing. We cover 433+ document types from 180+ countries in a single flow.
Accuracy measured by NIST
Our face comparison algorithm ranks 37th out of 570+ in the independent NIST FRVT benchmark. Liveness is tested to ISO/IEC 30107-3 against presentation attacks.
A platform, not a pilot
We are a vendor of the Centralized Identification System of the National Bank of Kazakhstan; Otbasy Bank, Nurbank and Binance run on the platform. The same engine serves your onboarding here.
Pricing you can see upfront
Plans and the calculator are public. Start with 500 free checks a month and price your volume before signing anything.
- 433+
- document types recognized
- 180+
- countries covered by OCR
- 37 / 570+
- rank in NIST FRVT
- 500
- free checks every month
Questions about KYC in the UAE
Test us on an Emirates ID and a passport from anywhere
Registration takes a minute and the sandbox issues keys right away. Run your first check today — 500 a month are free.