Press and Media kits

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17 Feb 2025

VOA News: AI-driven biometric fraud surges in Africa, fueling financial crimes

Gift Arku24 Feb 2025

Smile ID and Plumery Partner to Power Secure, Scalable Digital Banking in Africa

04 Feb 2025

WeeTracker: AI Proves Both Poison & Antidote As Gen AI Fuels New Wave Of Fraud In Africa

04 Feb 2025

Forbes Africa: Spoofing The Most Prevalent Form Of Fraud In Africa

04 Feb 2025

Business Insider: The 5 most targeted identity documents in Africa

04 Feb 2025

CNBC: Smile ID - AI-powered Selfie Anomalies Driving 34% of Emerging Biometric Fraud

04 Feb 2025

Leadership NG: Biometric Fraud Triples To 15% In West Africa

Emmanuel Agwu28 Jan 2025

Smile ID Releases 2025 Digital Identity Fraud in Africa Report

04 Feb 2025

Semafor: Surge in deepfakes heightens fraud risk for African businesses

10 Jan 2025

WeeTracker: As Bad Actors Fly Without Perching, Smile ID Looks To Shoot Without Missing

Gift Arku27 Nov 2024

From 100M to 200M in 11 Months: Inside Smile ID’s Groundbreaking Journey

Peace Itimi09 Sep 2024

Mastercard and Smile ID Collaborate to Accelerate Merchant Onboarding in Africa

Peace Itimi03 Jun 2024

Smile ID and Skaleet Join Forces to Revolutionize Digital Banking in Africa

Peace Itimi26 Jul 2023

ID Vulnerabilities Emphasise the Importance of Biometric Verification for Businesses

Peace Itimi18 Jul 2023

A New Chapter Begins: Introducing Smile ID

Peace Itimi28 Jun 2023

Exciting News: We are acquiring Appruve to enhance our expertise & deepen our reach across Africa.

19 Jul 2023

Techcrunch: Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

19 Jul 2023

Techcrunch: Costanoa Ventures and Norrsken22 back Smile Identity in $20M Series B round

Mark Straub17 Jul 2023

We have raised $20 million in funding in series B - To make Africans the most trusted users

19 Jul 2023

Techcrunch: Smile Identity raises $7M to build KYC and identity verification tools for Africa

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