Richard Emah, Regional Director North/West Africa at Sumsub
Africa’s iGaming boom is creating a new race—not just for players, markets and revenue, but for the technology and regulatory capacity to keep pace with explosive growth. As operators expand across borders and millions of users flood digital platforms, the industry faces a growing question: how do you grow at speed without letting compliance become either a bottleneck or a blind spot? Richard Emah, Regional Director, North/West Africa at Sumsub, a global verification and compliance technology company, believes the answer lies in smarter identity verification, continuous monitoring and closer collaboration between operators and regulators. Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes, following an interview with Emah in Lagos
There is a paradox at the heart of Africa’s booming iGaming industry. The same technology that allows an operator to acquire millions of customers in days can also expose the operator to an entirely different problem: how do you know who those customers are, where they are coming from, what documents they hold, how their transactions should be monitored and whether the compliance rules governing them are being properly applied?
