Required Documents

This page outlines the documents required for stakeholders, applicants, and various business types to onboard a corporate customer registered in New Zealand.

Business details

The following documents are required as part of the Know Your Business (KYB) identification and verification process.

businessType	Required Document
GOVERNMENT_ENTITY PRIVATE_COMPANY PUBLIC_COMPANY SOLE_TRADER CLUB_ASSOCIATION	N/A
GENERAL_PARTNERSHIP LIMITED_PARTNERSHIP	PARTNERSHIP_DEED
TRUST	TRUST_DEED

Stakeholders

NZ resident individual stakeholders need to use the kycMode= E_KYC. kycMode=MANUAL_KYC should be passed for non-residents.

E KYC

In E KYC mode, no document file is needed. However, details of at lease one of the following document is needed. In case of Driver's License documents, the drivers licence version number should be passed in the documentReferenceNumber field.

Field name	Passport	Driver's license
documentType	PASSPORT	DRIVER_LICENCE
documentNumber	Yes (Passport number)	Yes
documentReferenceNumber	No	Yes
documentIssuanceCountry	Yes	Yes
documentExpiryDate	Yes	Yes

Manual KYC

When kycMode = MANUAL_KYC the following documents need to be submitted.

Field name	Passport	Driver's license	National Id
documentType	PASSPORT	DRIVER_LICENCE	NATIONAL_ID
documentNumber	Yes (Passport number)	Yes	Yes
documentIssuanceCountry	Yes	Yes	Yes
documentReferenceNumber	No	Yes	No
documentExpiryDate	Yes	Yes	No
document.fileName	Yes	Yes	Yes
document.fileType	Yes	Yes	Yes
document.document	Yes	Yes	Yes

For a complete list of personal document types, see the values obtained from Fetch corporate constantsAPI with fieldName as documentType.

NOTE: Photocopies or scanned documents in black-and-white are not accepted for Passport, Medicare Cards, or Driver's License.

Applicants

Nium offers E_KYC, E_DOC_VERIFY, and MANUAL_KYC modes for applicant KYC in New Zealand.

• E_KYC is applicable for NZ residents.ID document details are needed for E_KYC mode. Additionally, Letter of Authorization is required to be uploaded if the applicant isn't a director or UBO
• E_DOC_VERIFY is applicable for non-AU residents. Applicant needs to complete KYC using the redirect URL. Document details need to be passed for E_DOC_VERIFY and upload of document files isn't required.
• MANUAL_KYC required document details along with upload of document files.

E KYC ad E Doc Verify

Field name	Passport	Driver's license	Letter Of Authorization, if applicant is not a DIRECTOR or UBO
documentType	PASSPORT	DRIVER_LICENCE	LOA
documentNumber	Yes (Passport number)	Yes	No
documentReferenceNumber	No	Yes	No
documentIssuanceCountry	Yes	Yes	No
documentExpiryDate	Yes	No	No
document.fileName	No	No	Yes
document.fileType	No	No	Yes
document.document	No	No	Yes

Manual KYC

Every individual applicant needs to submit one of the following information when kycMode = MANUAL_KYC.

Field name	Passport	Drivers license	National Id	Letter Of Authorization, if applicant is not a DIRECTOR or UBO
documentType	PASSPORT	DRIVER_LICENCE	NATIONAL_ID	LOA
documentNumber	Yes (Passport number)	Yes	Yes	No
documentIssuanceCountry	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
documentExpiryDate	Yes	Yes	No	No
document.fileName	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
document.fileType	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
document.document	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

For a complete list of personal document types, see the values obtained from Fetch corporate constantsAPI with fieldName as documentType.

See Letter Of Authorization for the suggested format of LOA in case you do not have one.

NOTE: Photocopies or scanned documents in black-and-white are not accepted for Passport, Medicare Cards, or Driver's License.