Karen Webster

Apple Pay
PYMNTS Apple Pay Weekly Recap: The Week of Bugs, Beacons and Buyers’ Remorse
September 26, 2014

Want some fodder for that next water cooler convo? Here’s our weekly take on what’s movin’ and shakin’ across the Apple Pay Ecosystem.

Karen Webster
Who Will Run “Android Pay?”
September 22, 2014

While the world’s now focused on Apple Pay, there’s another “A” player that’s just as capable of shaking things up in mobile payments. Android. Except that there’s just one problem, well actually there are five, that are getting in the way of making it the...

Apple Pay | Winners, Losers And Question Marks
September 15, 2014

Regardless of Apple Pay’s long run success, we’ve all just witnessed an inflection point in payments – a point in time after which nothing will ever be the same. What happens over the next three to five years will likely decide the direction of payments...

Commentary
Did We Just See The Future of Mobile Payments?
September 10, 2014

Say hello to Apple Pay. It’s the new kid on the payments block and, depending on how things unfold, it could be the new gorilla in the mobile payments ecosystem. MPD CEO Karen Webster shares her first thoughts on what Apple Pay is and how...

Karen Webster
Innovation … You Know It When You See It
September 08, 2014

How Innovative Is Payments? No one really knows how to consistently define or measure innovation. Hear me out. Tuesday (Sept. 9) is finally the day that Apple, a company that has topped just about every chart imaginable that measures innovation over the last three decades...

Karen Webster
Who’s On Your 2014 Fantasy Payments Team?
August 25, 2014

Even though the official end of Summer isn’t for another few weeks, the impending turn of the calendar pages from August to September sure signals that summer is over  . If that isn’t enough, the signs of Fall are also in great abundance: kids are...

Can Apple With NFC Ignite Mobile Payments?
August 18, 2014

Can Apple With NFC Ignite Mobile Payments? Well, we’re just about 3 weeks away now from Apple’s “big reveal.” September 9, 2014, is the date that Apple is expected to debut its new iPhone 6 and break its silence about all of the various consumer...

Karen Webster
Is “The Uber Experience” Really The Future of Payments?
August 11, 2014

One of my colleagues recently shared an anecdote about something she observed while in a hotel lobby in San Francisco. A group of young people had gathered, ready to head out for the evening. They were debating how to get to their destination. After a...

Karen Webster
How To Get Consumers Hooked on Mobile Payments
August 04, 2014

Getting consumers hooked on something new is every innovator’s dream. There’s only one big problem: Consumers don’t break old habits easily. Psychologists say that consumers are just hard-wired to resist change, believing that whatever they’re doing today is vastly better than any value they could...