Mercury Payments Services announces the appointment of Muzaffar Khokhar as the Executive Chairman to the board

Mercury Payments Services announces the appointment of Muzaffar Khokhar as the Executive Chairman to the board

Mercury Payments Services is pleased to announce the appointment of Muzaffar Khokhar as its Executive Chairman, effective immediately. Khokhar, Founder of Unitey Digital, a major shareholder of Mercury, is a career entrepreneur and a global executive in Payments and Digital ID. Prior to Unitey, Khokhar was a senior executive at IDEMIA working as President of MEA as well as EVP of the Digital Business unit. Khokhar, a longtime resident of Dubai, is actively involved in the payments ecosystem of Middle East & Africa, and is also a Non-Executive Director of South African based Akelo group, which is a part of Crossfin Holdings. “I am excited to take up this role after being on the board of Mercury for the last 15 months. I am particularly energized with the fast changing payments and digitization landscape in the UAE driven by the Central Bank of UAE’s Financial Infrastructure Transformation (FIT) program. I shall be working closely with the CEO, Muzaffer Hamid and the rest of the management team to help drive several strategic initiatives across the spectrum," said Khokhar.