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.

CFPB
Why Regulators’ War On Fees Will Kill Consumers

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Mobile Commerce
Chatbots And The Future Of Facebook Messenger

Until about a couple of weeks ago, bots were mostly thought of as the...

Uber Dials Back New Engineering Hires
Payment Methods
The ‘Uber Of Nothing’ Is Coming

Payment’s Next Big Thing: The “Uber Of Nothing” ”I’m about to sneeze. May I...

Merchant Innovation
Why Contextual Commerce Is The Next Big Thing

In January of this year, I wrote a piece in which I said there...

Faster Payments
The Fastest Path To Faster Payments In The US

The path to faster payments in the U.S. doesn’t have to be paved with...

NFC
UK’s Lessons For US Mobile Payments Adoption

Consumers and retailers in the U.S. apparently just aren’t getting it. The latest stats...

Payments Innovation
Sleepless In Payments

The world is increasingly sleep deprived. Nearly 70 percent of adults in the U.S., 75...

Payment Methods
How Payments Will Save Retail

I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. To...