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.

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....

Payments Innovation
The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

It’s not news that the 70 million people born between 1980 and 2000 —...

Amazon
Will Amazon Eat Grocery Stores For Lunch?

When we all got a peek at Amazon Go last week, the buzz was...

Commerce
Sleepless In 2017: The Eight Big Shifts That Should Keep...

Shifts in the Earth’s tectonic plates can cause massive devastation, and some shifts are...

Mastercard’s Call to Digital Payments Action
Digital Payments
Mastercard’s Call To Digital Payments Action

Digital payments are the wave of the future, but it’s been a pretty rocky...

Big Data
The Seven Deadly Data Sins Of The 2016 Presidential Election

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election taught us many things. But Karen Webster said that...

Mobile
Microsoft’s Shoulda-Woulda-Coulda Mobile Story

Steve Ballmer said last week that things might have been different for Microsoft and...