Foreign vendors, foreign data
Banks and fintechs rely on Onfido, Jumio and IDWise at roughly USD 1–5 per check — sending sensitive customer data offshore, with engines never tuned for the Qatar QID or Arabic transliteration.
Qatar-owned · RegTech · eKYC + AML
Identity verification & AML compliance, built in Qatar — for Qatar.
Mussadaq is a fully proprietary eKYC and anti-money-laundering platform that lets banks, fintechs and insurers verify customers and screen risk in seconds — aligned to the QCB E-KYC Regulation, bilingual in Arabic and English, with data that stays in the region.
Aligned to QCB E-KYC Regulation
PDPPL-compliant
Bilingual AR / EN
100% in-house IP
The compliance infrastructure Qatar's financial sector imports — now sovereign.
QCB E-KYC aligned
Data resident in-region
Arabic-native
The gap
Qatar's financial sector verifies identity with foreign tools
Compliance is mandatory, but the rails are imported — expensive, off-shore, and not built for Qatari IDs or Arabic names. There is no sovereign alternative.
A regulator-mandated gap
Since 2023 the QCB E-KYC Regulation requires regulated entities to use approved eKYC supporting Arabic/English, biometrics and continuous screening — yet no Qatar-owned provider is built to it.
Slow, manual, costly compliance
Onboarding and AML screening still lean on manual review. False positives and friction delay customers, inflate cost, and stretch compliance teams that are already short-staffed.
The platform
One proprietary engine for the whole compliance journey
Mussadaq orchestrates every step of customer onboarding and risk screening — each module is our own in-house IP, exposed through one API and one bilingual dashboard.
Document verification
Capture QID, passport or residence permit; extract every field; validate the QID checksum and passport MRZ; flag expiry, tampering and inconsistencies.
In-house pipelineBiometric & liveness
Match a live selfie to the document photo and confirm a real, present person with passive liveness — stopping spoofs, deepfakes and photo-of-a-photo fraud.
In-house logicAML & sanctions screening
Screen names against sanctions, PEP and watchlists with fuzzy and Arabic-to-Latin transliteration matching — built to cut false positives, not multiply them.
In-house matchingRisk scoring engine
Combine document confidence, biometric match and screening hits into an explainable risk band and a clear Approve / Review / Reject decision with reason codes.
ProprietaryCompliance case management
A bilingual dashboard for compliance officers — case queue, full evidence view, and one-click approve or reject with a recorded reason on every decision.
In-house UIAudit trail & reporting
Every step and decision is logged immutably and timestamped, with PDPPL-compliant data handling and a per-case audit report — ready for the regulator on demand.
Regulator-ready
How it works
From upload to decision in one orchestrated flow
A customer onboards once; Mussadaq Core runs every check and returns a defensible decision — through the dashboard or your own app via API.
1
Capture
ID document & selfie, in app or dashboard
2
Extract & validate
Fields, QID checksum, MRZ, tamper checks
3
Biometric match
Face match & passive liveness
4
Screen
AML, sanctions, PEP & watchlists
5
Score & decide
Risk band, decision & audit record
Why Mussadaq
Everything a foreign vendor can't be in Qatar
We aren't localising a global product. Mussadaq is sovereign by design — owned, hosted and tuned for this market and its regulator.
Qatar-owned & data-residentIncorporated in Qatar; customer data stays in-region, not offshore.
Arabic-nativeBuilt for Qatari IDs and Arabic name matching — not bolted on.
Built to the QCB E-KYC RegulationDesigned around the 2023 standard from day one.
Fully proprietary IPOur engine, scoring and workflows — reselling no one.
Lower costBuilt to undercut the USD 1–5 per check foreign pricing.
Sandbox-readyArchitected for the QCB regulatory sandbox path.
- 0
- eKYC providers built for Qatar, owned in Qatar
- $1–5
- per verification — what foreign vendors charge today
- 2023
- QCB E-KYC Regulation in force for regulated entities
- AR + EN
- bilingual by design, with full RTL support
Compliance & trust
Designed around Qatar's regulatory framework
Mussadaq is a technology provider to regulated entities — built so that the institutions we serve can meet their obligations with confidence.
QCB E-KYC Regulation
Arabic/English support, biometrics and continuous screening — the pillars of the 2023 standard, built in.
PDPPL data protection
Personal-data handling designed to Qatar's PDPPL, with data residency kept in the region.
QCB sandbox path
Architected for validation inside the QCB regulatory sandbox before production deployment with financial institutions.
Roadmap
A clear path from working MVP to the QCB sandbox
Honest milestones — the engine is built; funding trains the regional models and clears the regulatory sandbox.
Working MVP
Proprietary engine running document, biometric, AML and risk scoring end-to-end — live demo, June 2026.
QCB sandbox
Apply to the QCB regulatory sandbox to validate the platform against the E-KYC standard with a real institution.
First FI pilots
Onboard design-partner banks, fintechs and insurers; harden for production and integrate live AML feeds.
Proprietary regional models
Train Arabic-ID-optimized OCR and regional biometric models on consented data; extend across the GCC.
Design-partner program
Be among the first institutions to verify, sovereign.
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