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.

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Mobile Commerce
2018: The Year Of The Mobile Wallet Reset

It’s time to talk more about what we’re really trying to accomplish for consumers...

Retail
Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

Charles Babbage is considered “the father of the computer.” But it was Lord Byron’s...

What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys
Payments Innovation
What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys

About 30 days from now, most of you reading this who made a New...

Payments Innovation
Payments 2018: Think This — Not That

In 800 B.C., when people wanted to know the answer to “what’s next” about...

Karen Webster
52 Mondays, 52 Conversations, 52 Ways Of Looking At Payments

No year in payments is exactly alike – perhaps conversation is the only constant....

Payments Innovation
Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television

No doubt you’ve heard the news: People aren’t watching television anymore. Get the Full...

Retail
What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers

In January 1950, William Applebaum published a piece in the Journal of Marketing about the...

Retail
What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

Accomplished public intellectual and post-Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith was well-known for four things....