Hannah Te Wiata

Hannah owns the payments and KYC sections of every review. She is the person who tells us when an operator's withdrawal policy will not actually work for a Kiwi customer holding an ANZ or Westpac account, and she tests card, bank-transfer, and crypto rails on every site before it goes on the list.

Eight years in New Zealand consumer banking before joining the editorial team. Auckland-based.

How Hannah tests payments

Every payments and KYC section on 888b.nz starts with the same routine. Nothing in it relies on what the operator claims on its banking page:

1. Open the cashier before anything else. Hannah checks the NZD cashier first: which methods actually appear for a New Zealand IP, whether POLi is really offered or just listed, and what the minimums and fees look like before a cent goes in.
2. Deposit through Kiwi rails. Real deposits go through POLi, card, and direct bank transfer from a New Zealand account, the same way an ANZ or Westpac customer would do it. If a method fails or gets rerouted through a third party, that goes in the review.
3. Run KYC early, not at cashout. Hannah submits verification documents before the withdrawal, using the ID and proof-of-address documents a Kiwi actually holds. Sites that sit on documents for days, or ask for paperwork twice, lose points.
4. Time the money back to a NZ bank. The withdrawal is lodged and timed from request to the credit landing in a New Zealand bank account. That figure, not the operator's advertised processing window, is what appears in the review.

Why NZ banking detail matters

Eight years working in New Zealand consumer banking taught Hannah where offshore casino payments actually break for Kiwi customers: cards that decline on gambling merchant codes, withdrawal routes that quietly convert through a foreign currency, and verification checklists written for documents New Zealanders do not have. A payments section that ignores those realities is just a copy of the operator's marketing page, so hers never does.

Editorial independence

888b.nz does not sell ranking positions. Where a link to an operator is a commercial one, it is marked as such, and it never changes the verdict in a payments section. If an operator pays well but its withdrawals stall or its KYC process punishes Kiwi players, that is what the review says.