Accura Scan – AI-powered Digital KYC, Identity Verification & Touch-less Biometrics for African Finance
Accura Scan is a Mumbai-headquartered RegTech specialist that equips banks, micro-finance institutions, fintechs and mobile-money operators across Africa with fast, compliant and fraud-resistant digital KYC and biometric authentication. Its no-code platform, mobile SDKs and REST APIs recognise 4 000+ identity documents issued in 195 countries and extract data in 150+ languages within seconds, while its ISO 30107-3 PAD iBeta Level 2-certified liveness engine blocks deepfakes, masks and replay attacks, helping financial institutions slash onboarding drop-offs and meet ever-tighter AML and data-protection rules. (Accurascan, Accurascan, Accurascan)
Accura Scan is steadily deepening its African footprint: it showcased its AI-driven deepfake-protection suite at Seamless Africa 2025 in Nairobi, underscoring its commitment to the continent’s rapidly digitising banking and payments ecosystem. (Accurascan)
Key Products
- KYC Identity Verification Suite – Real-time selfie-to-ID face match, AI liveness and address/consent checks completed in ≤10 seconds.
- OCR & NFC ID Scanning – High-precision extraction from passports, national IDs and driver licences, including MRZ and chip data.
- Face, Fingerprint & Voice Biometrics – Touch-less multi-factor authentication via standard smartphones, no extra hardware required.
- Document & Face Liveness Detection – PAD iBeta Level 2 spoof-resistance with physical-document presence checks.
- AML / PEP & Sanctions Screening – Instant watch-list hits, adverse-media scanning and configurable risk scoring.
- Video KYC & Camera-Injection Defence – Live or unattended video sessions with geo-tagging plus malware-camera attack blocking. (Accurascan, Accurascan)
Core Services & Technical Capabilities
- Offline, on-premise, private-cloud or SaaS deployment options for strict data-sovereignty needs.
- Plug-and-play SDKs for iOS, Android, Flutter and React Native, plus Docker images and GitHub samples for rapid integration.
- GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST and VAPT certifications ensure end-to-end security and audit-ready compliance.
- 5–10 second average verification time, scalable to millions of checks per day without latency spikes. (Accurascan)
Proven African Financial-Services References
- ENDA Tamweel (Tunisia) – Micro-finance pioneer integrated Accura Scan via Comviva to digitise loan onboarding while cutting fraud risk. (Accurascan)
- Comviva mobiquity® Suite Deployments – Accura Scan’s pre-integrated KYC module powers mobile-wallet and digital-banking platforms used by dozens of banks and PSPs across Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and 20+ other African markets. (Business Post Nigeria)
By combining AI-driven fraud analytics, world-class liveness detection and flexible deployment, Accura Scan enables African financial institutions to accelerate customer acquisition, reinforce regulatory compliance and reduce identity-related losses—fueling secure, inclusive growth across the continent’s booming digital-finance landscape.