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Data as a product: inside Africa's most underrated tech category

ON A WEEKDAY morning in Lagos, somewhere between the time a customer downloads a fintech app and the moment she taps "deposit", her face is photographed, matched against a national identity database, scored for liveness, and either approved or rejected. The whole exchange takes a few seconds. It costs the fintech a few cents. Somewhere in the middle, a company called Smile Identity earns a tiny piece of the transaction. By early 2023, Smile had …

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The African Exponent broke the news in Tanzania, the United Republic of on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
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