1. Your customers’ documents
Ask for the exact list of documents read for your country: in Côte d’Ivoire, the biometric CNI, passport, residence card, driving licence and CNAM card; for companies, the RCCM, the CEPICI identifier and the taxpayer number. A passport read anywhere is not enough if your customers mostly carry their national card.
2. French, natively
Documents, names and addresses in the region are in French. Extraction, your analysts’ interface and decision reasons should be too, without rough translation.
3. The BCEAO framework and the FIU
The provider should know the uniform AML/CFT law, the BCEAO instructions and how a suspicious transaction report reaches your country’s CENTIF. Ask to see an alert all the way to the report.
4. Where the data lives
Face photos, identity documents and videos are sensitive data. In Côte d’Ivoire, Law No. 2013-450 governs their processing, supervised by ARTCI. Ask where data is stored, who can access it, and whether installation on your own servers is possible.
5. Face match and liveness
Ask how the provider measures its errors on faces and capture conditions close to yours, and what happens when the document photo is poor. A good system says so and sends the file to review instead of guessing.
6. Screening and false positives
Which lists (UN, OFAC, EU, UK, PEPs), how often are they updated, and how are namesakes handled? A dismissed false positive should stay visible, not disappear.
7. An explanation for every decision
Your analysts and auditors must be able to read why a file was approved or rejected, check by check. A black box cannot be defended in front of an inspector.
8. The audit trail
Every access and every decision should be logged, time-stamped and tamper-evident, and the log should be exportable for an inspection.
9. Integration
A browser journey with nothing to install, an SDK for your app, an API for your systems: check all three, and how long a first pilot takes.
10. Support, on the ground
A provider in your time zone and your language fixes an onboarding incident the same day. Ask who answers, and from where.
Where Verita stands
Verita is built in Abidjan around these criteria: Ivorian documents and those of eight more countries in the region, KYB with the RCCM and CEPICI, native French, suspicious transaction reports in the format of Côte d’Ivoire’s CENTIF, visible reasoning, a hash-chained audit trail and on-premise installation. The best way to compare is still a pilot on your own files.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best KYC solution in Côte d’Ivoire?
The one that reads your customers’ documents, fits Law No. 2013-450 and the BCEAO framework, explains every decision and lets your analysts decide. Compare on your own files, in a pilot.
Do I need a separate solution for KYB?
Not necessarily. A platform that does both avoids re-typing the directors and beneficial owners, who must pass KYC anyway.
How long does a pilot take?
It depends on your volumes and your integration. Contact us to scope one around your use cases.
Updated 19 October 2026. The regulatory information on this page comes from public sources consulted in October 2026. It is given for guidance only and is not legal advice.