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The Capgemini Research Institute’s world payments report 2025 refers to an industry set to be reimagined with account-to-account or A2A payments challenging the dominance of traditional payment cards.
More than one-third of the European payment executives surveyed for the report expect A2A payments to significantly offset card transaction growth across Europe by 2027.
According to Mathieu Altwegg, Head of Product at Visa for the UK & Ireland, there are three main issues that need to be addressed in order to maximise customer adoption of A2A payments, the first of which is delivering a consistent user experience.
“We then need to create a level of trust so consumers understand that the solution is safe,” he says. “Finally, we need a strong element of consumer protection, which typically articulates itself as a formal resolution process for managing disputes.”
Visa recently announced the launch of Visa A2A to address these issues and bring consumer control and protection to account-to-account payments. The service will introduce a formal dispute resolution process and use biometrics to add new levels of security.
Altwegg acknowledges that the payment rails have to be secure if consumers are to adopt them at scale and notes that the payment industry has deployed advanced
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Eric Samson talks to Howard Sackstein about his life
Following the death of iconic businessman and philanthropist Eric Samson this week, we are reprinting this interview done in 2013.
I had the privilege to be a fly on the wall when Eric and Sheila Samson spent an hour telling Howard Sackstein about their roller-coaster ride from starting with nothing to becoming bigger than De Beers in July. Why a privilege? Because Eric Samson is renowned for keeping out of the public arena and has refused even to speak to the Sunday Times, the Financial Mail, and Business Day in recent stories they have written about him.
So secretive has Samson kept his private life, most among South African Jewry know of him only through three things: his massive philanthropic activities; his close friendship with Madiba and Graça Machel; and the enormous wealth he generated (although not being a listed business, the numbers are anyone’s guess).
But let me not get ahead of myself, read this amazing account of an amazing conversation, with some added research from what little information exists to give flavour.
Where it all began…
Eric Samson showed signs he would make a great businessman while still at school. After a cake sale at Parkview Junior, the principal announced that Samson had rais