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iKhokha wins 2016 MasterCard Innovation Award

South African mobile commerce provider, iKhokha has won the Innovation Award at the MasterCard Innovation Forum which took place in Budapest, Hungry.

By Matthew Alexander

11 Oct 2016

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The MasterCard Innovation Awards celebrate MasterCard partners who use their payment solutions to push for financial inclusion of all businesses, which iKhokha has done with their POS solution.

“We are honoured to receive this award from the MasterCard global Innovation Forum judging panel. It serves as great validation for the hard work that the iKhokha team has put into driving digital financial inclusion for SMEs in SA,” said iKhokha CEO, Matt Putman, in a press release to Ventureburn.

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