Bahrain, Saudi Arabia
FACEKIVerify customers remotely and screen them against watchlists
FACEKI checks identity documents, confirms the person is real and matches the document, and screens individuals and businesses against sanctions and PEP lists, so you can onboard customers online.
- eKYC
- ID document check, liveness check and face match
- KYB
- Business verification, including UBOs, shareholders and directors
- AML screening
- Sanctions and PEP screening with ongoing monitoring
- API and SDKs
- Built into your own web or mobile onboarding flow
Problems FACEKI is used to solve
Remote onboarding is only useful if you can trust who is on the other side. These are the common gaps.
| Topic | What it can lead to | How FACEKI helps |
|---|---|---|
| Manual onboarding with paper or emailed copies | What it can lead to: Slow sign-up, customers giving up part way, and staff time spent checking documents by eye. | How FACEKI helps: The customer photographs their ID and completes a liveness check in your app or website, and the result comes back as accepted or declined. |
| Forged or altered ID documents | What it can lead to: Accounts opened with fake or tampered documents. | How FACEKI helps: Document checks cover security features, document type, expiry, and data matching across the front and back, OCR, barcode and MRZ (machine-readable zone). |
| A photo or video presented instead of a real person | What it can lead to: Accounts opened with a stolen identity. | How FACEKI helps: A liveness check confirms the person is physically present, and a face match compares them with the photo on the document. |
| Sanctioned persons or politically exposed persons (PEPs) onboarded unknowingly | What it can lead to: Regulatory breaches and reputational damage. | How FACEKI helps: Screening against international and GCC sanctions lists and PEP databases, with ongoing monitoring that notifies you when a status changes. |
| Business customers with unclear ownership | What it can lead to: Dealing with a company whose real owners you have not identified. | How FACEKI helps: KYB checks corporate documents and runs KYC and sanctions checks on ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), shareholders and directors. |
What FACEKI does
FACEKI groups its products into identity verification, business verification and compliance screening. You can use one module or combine them in a single onboarding flow.
Identity document verification (eKYC)
Captures an ID card, passport or driving licence, extracts the data with OCR, and checks document type, security features, validity and consistency between the data fields.
Liveness check and face match
Confirms that a real person is in front of the camera rather than a photo, video or spoof, and matches their face to the document photo.
AML, PEP and sanctions screening
Screens individuals and businesses against watchlists such as UN, EU, OFAC and GCC sanctions lists and PEP databases, with case notes, time stamps and bulk screening.
Business verification (KYB)
Checks corporate documents such as registration certificates and articles of incorporation, and screens UBOs, shareholders and directors.
Biometric authentication
Lets returning users sign in or confirm actions with their face instead of a password.
API and SDKs
Connects the checks to your own app or website, with technical documentation published at docs.faceki.com.
FACEKI modules and what each covers
Use this to match each module to a step in your customer lifecycle.
| Topic | What it checks | Where it fits |
|---|---|---|
| eKYC | What it checks: ID document, liveness and face match, with a risk-scored result | Where it fits: Opening an account or registering a new individual customer |
| KYB | What it checks: Corporate documents, UBOs, shareholders and directors | Where it fits: Onboarding business customers, merchants or suppliers |
| AML, PEP and sanctions screening | What it checks: Names of people and businesses against watchlists, at onboarding and on an ongoing basis | Where it fits: Initial due diligence and periodic re-screening |
| Biometric authentication | What it checks: The returning user’s face | Where it fits: Log-in and confirmation of sensitive actions after onboarding |
Coverage of specific countries, documents and registries varies. Confirm the documents and lists you need with FACEKI during evaluation.
Before you add eKYC to your onboarding
Questions worth answering before choosing any identity verification provider. Tick what is settled: nothing you select is saved or sent.
How VirtuThinko helps you adopt FACEKI
- 01
Requirements
We can help you write down what you need FACEKI to do, including the documents, countries and screening lists that matter to your customers.
- 02
Demo or proof of concept
We can arrange a demonstration and, where it makes sense, a limited trial against agreed success criteria.
- 03
Design and deployment
We can help plan the architecture, integrations and rollout, including change windows and a rollback plan.
- 04
Tuning and handover
We can help tune policies after go-live and hand over documentation and knowledge to your team.
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Ongoing support
Where you want it, we can help with day-to-day administration, upgrades and periodic reviews.
Electronic know your customer (eKYC) is the process of verifying a customer’s identity remotely, usually by checking an identity document and confirming that the person presenting it is real and is the document holder. FACEKI does this with document checks, a liveness check and a face match.
According to FACEKI’s documentation, the user photographs an ID card, passport or driving licence in an app or website, then completes a liveness check. The system runs its checks and returns a result of accepted or declined.
FACEKI’s documentation lists anti-spoofing, photo face match, image quality, document type, security features, data matching across the front and back, OCR, barcode and MRZ, validity (expiry), optional checks such as age, gender and nationality, and risk scoring that produces the final result.
Yes. FACEKI KYB checks corporate documents and runs KYC and AML, PEP and sanctions checks on UBOs, shareholders and directors. FACEKI also lists manual enhanced due diligence by its compliance team.
Through an API and SDKs, so the checks run inside your own app or website. Technical documentation is published at docs.faceki.com.
FACEKI’s public product pages do not set out data location or retention in detail. Confirm data residency, retention and sub-processors with FACEKI during evaluation, especially if you are subject to Bahrain’s PDPL or other data protection law that applies to you.
Explore FACEKI for your organisation
Tell us who you onboard, the documents they hold and the checks your regulator expects. A member of our team will contact you to arrange an initial conversation.