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.

Payments Innovation
Online Platforms: Why Consumers Rule And Regulators Don’t

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Payments Innovation
Payments’ Stranger Things

The payments world could very well be living in the Upside Down. Get the...

Delivery
Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?

Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong...

Payments Innovation
Why Household Finances Under The Hood Don’t Look So Good

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Payments Innovation
How Uncertainty Kills Commerce

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Payments Innovation
Has Unbundling Lost Its Cool?

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Grocery
Payments Innovation
Are Retailers Ready For Amazon’s Prime Time?

My plan on Friday evening was to write a hard-hitting piece on a services...

Payments Innovation
Amazon Restaurants, Big Threat Or Essential Lifeline?

The restaurant industry today is a study in contradictions. Census data tells us that...