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.

QSR & Mobile
Why Mobile Order Ahead Isn’t About Payments

Allow me to tell you a little story about mobile order ahead in the...

Retail
The Reality of Retail Darwinism

Twenty-seven years ago marked the end of a shopping era in Baltimore. That was...

Amazon
The Amazon Effect On … Payments

We spend a lot of time talking about the impact of the “Amazon Effect”...

Retail
Solving Retail’s Small Business Crisis

Small business once employed 50 percent of all workers in the U.S. and created...

Retail
Channeling Retail’s Inner Animal

Grab your cuppa Joe this morning and close your eyes. Now, imagine that you’re...

Payments Innovation
What Do Hillbillies Have To Do With Payments Innovation?

J.D. Vance made “Hillbilly” and “Elegy” a part of our mainstream vocabulary last summer...

Retail
Will Retail Brick-And-Mortar Go The Way Of ‘The Greatest Show...

The Greatest Show is shutting down! No, don’t worry, NRF. We’re not talking about...

Why The “C” In CES Stands For “Change”
CES
What I Learned At CES Last Week

The annual pilgrimage to Vegas that is CES is one for the history books....