Written By Karen Webster

Karen Webster is one of the world’s leading experts on emerging payments and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in the payments and commerce space. As the CEO of Market Platform Dynamics, she works extensively with the most innovative players in the payments, financial services, mobile, B2B, digital media and technology sectors to identify, ignite and monetize innovation. Karen also serves on the boards of a number of emerging companies, helping innovators develop and implement business strategies that drive market adoption for their products and services. Karen is also an entrepreneur herself, who has successfully founded and launched several new ventures in the loyalty, on-line media, and social networking sectors, including PYMNTS.com.

Uber: Next Decade’s Trillion-Dollar Platform?
Payments Innovation
Is Uber Next Decade’s Trillion-Dollar Platform?

Uber filed its S-1 last Thursday (April 11), two weeks after Lyft went public....

Apple Card Design Exclusivity
Ecosystems
Why Me-Too Services Can’t Save Apple

Three years ago, I wrote a piece in which I said Apple had become...

Will Amazon Pay Plus Worldpay Conquer Food?
Payments Innovation
Will Amazon Pay Plus Worldpay Conquer Food?

Most of the payments chatter last week focused on FIS’ mega acquisition of Worldpay....

Faster Payments: What's The Fed's Hidden Agenda?
Faster Payments
Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

“Connect the dots” is used as a metaphor to describe how a series of...

The Greatest Innovation In Eating Since The Menu
ResTech
Why Restaurants Should Be Worried

The true measure of innovation is when no one has come up with anything...

Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook
Payments Innovation
What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more...

Why Payments’ Future Should Be Focused On 2039
Payments Innovation
Could Online Intermediaries Control The Physical Point Of Sale?

The year is 2039. The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to...

Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition
Regulation
Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has...