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NZTA Driver Licence, DIA Passport, DIA Birth and Citizenship checks on one session, screened against MFAT Russia + DIA Designated Terrorists lists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in New Zealand.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape New Zealand identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on the trans-Tasman fintech corridor and TAB NZ online wagering, NZTA Driver Licence forgery (the single most-used identity credential in the country), and cross-border AML pressure tied to Russia sanctions enforcement and the FATF mutual-evaluation regime. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • AML/CFT Act 2009 + AML/CFT Regulations
  • Privacy Act 2020 + 13 Information Privacy Principles
  • Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (FMA)
  • Banking Act + Non-bank Deposit Takers Act (RBNZ)
  • Reliance Levels under the Identity Verification Code of Practice
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in New Zealand.

These are the supervisors a New Zealand verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them, no separate integration per agency.
  • RBNZ

    Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Te Pūtea Matua), central bank and prudential supervisor for registered banks and non-bank deposit takers. AML/CFT supervisor for banks and life insurers.

  • FMA

    Financial Markets Authority, supervises capital markets, licensed financial-services providers, fund managers, and Discretionary Investment Management Services (DIMS) providers.

  • DIA

    Department of Internal Affairs (Te Tari Taiwhenua), AML/CFT supervisor for non-financial reporting entities (real estate, casinos, lawyers, accountants), passport issuer, and Births, Deaths and Marriages registrar.

  • OPC

    Office of the Privacy Commissioner (Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu), administers the Privacy Act 2020 and the 13 Information Privacy Principles.

  • NZTA

    Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, issues the Driver Licence (NZ's most-used identity credential) and operates the NZTA authoritative-source verification service.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a New Zealand database cross-check, composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • NZTA Driver Licence (the most-used identity credential in the country), DIA Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Residence Visa, RealMe digital identity, and DIA Birth Certificate.
  • Returns the name, document number, date of birth, address, and (for the Driver Licence) the version number.
Read the docs
Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • NZ Driver Licence (NZTA)
  • NZ Passport · NZ Residence Visa
  • RealMe digital identity
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows, user turns or blinks.
Read the docs
Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus New Zealand watchlists:

  • New Zealand Police - Designated Terrorists (Sanctions), domestic terrorist designations under the Terrorism Suppression Act.
  • New Zealand Foreign Affairs & Trade - Russia Sanctions Register (Sanctions), MFAT Russia-specific sanctions enforced under NZ domestic law.
  • Financial Market Authority New Zealand - Penalties (Warnings), FMA-issued penalties and enforcement actions against registered persons.
  • RBNZ-ALERT - Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Alert (SIE), RBNZ supervisory alerts and state-invested-entity flags.
  • Immigration New Zealand (SIP), immigration enforcement and person-of-interest records.
  • Parliament of New Zealand, PEP Level 1, Members of Parliament and senior political figures.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

Read the docs
Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check against NZTA + DIA.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The NZTA Driver Licence check (nzl_zealand_drivers_licence, $0.35, 100% coverage) cross-checks the licence number + version against Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, the workhorse for NZ onboarding.
  • The DIA Passport check (nzl_new_zealand_passport, $0.84, 100%) cross-checks the passport number + expiry against the Department of Internal Affairs register (consent required).
  • The DIA Citizenship check (nzl_new_zealand_citizenship, $0.84, ~10%) confirms NZ citizenship status.
  • The DIA Births check (nzl_new_zealand_births, free, ~85%) cross-checks against the BDM Births register at no cost.
  • The Credit Bureau check (nzl_zealand_credit_bureau, $0.66, ~70%) covers credit-header cross-check for fintech underwriting.
  • The LINZ Property check (nzl_zealand_linz_property, $0.29, ~30%) ties the user to a property record, useful for KYB and proof-of-address.
Read the docs
Stage 04Cross-check against NZTA + DIA

Cross-check against NZTA + DIA , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every New Zealand document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential, flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for New Zealand.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against, civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
nzl_zealand_drivers_licence

New Zealand Drivers Licence (NZTA)

Source: Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency (NZTA). $0.35 per successful query. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
nzl_new_zealand_passport

DIA - New Zealand Passport

Source: Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). $0.84 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
nzl_new_zealand_citizenship

DIA - New Zealand Citizenship

Source: Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). $0.84 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage >10%.

Read the API docs
nzl_new_zealand_births

DIA - New Zealand Births

Source: Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) — Births, Deaths and Marriages. Free per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~85%.

Read the API docs
nzl_zealand_death_check

New Zealand Death Check (BDM)

Source: Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) — Births, Deaths and Marriages. $0.16 per successful query. Coverage 100%.

Read the API docs
nzl_zealand_companies_office

New Zealand Companies Office

Source: New Zealand Companies Office — Director and Shareholders Registration. $0.16 per successful query. Coverage ~20%.

Read the API docs
nzl_zealand_credit_bureau

New Zealand Credit Bureau

Source: Aggregated NZ credit-header data (consumer credit bureau). $0.66 per successful query. End-user consent required. Coverage ~70%.

Read the API docs
nzl_zealand_linz_property

New Zealand LINZ Property

Source: Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) — Property Ownership database. $0.29 per successful query. Coverage ~30%.

Read the API docs
nzl_zealand_residential

New Zealand Residential

Source: Aggregated NZ permission-based consumer and postal records. $0.93 per successful query. Coverage ~60%.

Read the API docs
nzl_zealand_consumer

New Zealand Consumer

Source: NZ lead-generation consumer database. $0.06 per successful query. Coverage ~20%.

Read the API docs
nzl_zealand_yellow_pages

New Zealand Yellow Pages

Source: NZ electronic phone records. $0.25 per successful query. Coverage ~5%.

Read the API docs
aml-screening

AML lists screened in New Zealand

1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.

Read the AML coverage docs
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter, the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about New Zealand.

What does Didit ship?

Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:

  • User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
  • Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
  • Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.

Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.

How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?

Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:

  • Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
  • Flexibility. One /v3/ Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.

Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.

What does it cost? Is anything actually free?

500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.

Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.

Which New Zealand regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four sit on top of every New Zealand identity-verification flow:

  • Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), central bank and AML/CFT supervisor for registered banks, non-bank deposit takers, and life insurers under the AML/CFT Act 2009.
  • Financial Markets Authority (FMA), AML/CFT supervisor for licensed financial-services providers, fund managers, and DIMS providers under the same Act.
  • Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), AML/CFT supervisor for non-financial reporting entities (real estate agents, casinos, lawyers, accountants, conveyancers) and operator of the passport register + Births, Deaths and Marriages registers. The NZ Financial Intelligence Unit (NZ Police FIU) receives Suspicious Activity Reports.
  • Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC), administers the Privacy Act 2020 and the 13 Information Privacy Principles.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Does Didit cross-check New Zealand identities against the NZTA Driver Licence register?

Yes, via the `nzl_zealand_drivers_licence` Database Validation service (POST /v3/database-validation/ with services=nzl_zealand_drivers_licence).

  • Source: Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency (NZTA), the authoritative-source register for New Zealand's most-used identity credential.
  • Price: $0.35 per successful query.
  • Required inputs: first_name, last_name, date_of_birth, driver_license_number, driver_license_version.
  • Coverage: 100% of NZTA-issued Driver Licences.
  • Consent: Not required.

The DIA stack covers the rest: `nzl_new_zealand_passport` ($0.84, 100%, consent required), `nzl_new_zealand_citizenship` ($0.84, ~10%), and `nzl_new_zealand_births` (free, ~85%). All four are documented at docs.didit.me/api-reference/database-validation/new-zealand/.

Does Didit screen against the MFAT Russia Sanctions Register?

Yes, on every AML check. The NZ Foreign Affairs & Trade (MFAT) Russia Sanctions Register is one of the 1,300+ sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists screened on every Didit AML call ($0.20 per check).

Alongside MFAT Russia, the AML screen also hits:

  • NZ Police - Designated Terrorists (Sanctions).
  • FMA - Penalties (Warnings).
  • RBNZ-ALERT - Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Alert (SIE).
  • Immigration New Zealand enforcement records (SIP).
  • Parliament of New Zealand PEP register (PEP Level 1).

Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, what the periodic-review obligation under the AML/CFT Act 2009 expects.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in New Zealand?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML + NZTA Driver Licence + DIA Passport, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test.
  • Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.

The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full New Zealand stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for New Zealand users?

English (New Zealand), auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Māori-speaking users get the English flow today, with the wider 48-language pool covering any non-English-speaking resident.

The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in any language, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.

What does the New Zealand verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15.
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check (MFAT Russia Sanctions Register + NZ Police Designated Terrorists included). Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.
  • `nzl_new_zealand_births`, free per successful query.
  • `nzl_zealand_consumer`, $0.06. `nzl_zealand_companies_office` + `nzl_zealand_death_check`, $0.16 each. `nzl_zealand_yellow_pages`, $0.25. `nzl_zealand_linz_property`, $0.29. `nzl_zealand_drivers_licence`, $0.35. `nzl_zealand_credit_bureau`, $0.66. `nzl_new_zealand_passport` + `nzl_new_zealand_citizenship`, $0.84 each. `nzl_zealand_residential`, $0.93.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no New Zealand surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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