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.

Election
Regulation
The 2016 Presidential Election And Banks’ Next Four Scary Years

Lots of people in the U.S. will be sitting on pins and needles awaiting...

Matchmakers
What the Uber Driver Revolt Means for Payments

There’s a pretty alarming epidemic that’s now afflicting many of the matchmakers lucky enough...

News
PYMNTS.com TURNS SEVEN!

2009 was a good year for PYMNTS. This week, we're celebrating our seventh birthday....

IPO
First Data: One Year After The IPO

First Data went public — for the second time — on October 15, 2016....

Voice Activation
The Clash Of The Voice-Commerce Titans

Google, Apple and Amazon have all put some pretty big bets behind a commerce-enabled...

Retail
Retail Reinvention: Why Retail Doesn’t Need Salespeople

I was all set to write a very different piece this week. Then I...

Is It “A Bot Time” For Payments To Jump On The Bot Bandwagon?
Chatbots And Commerce
Is It ‘A Bot Time’ For Payments To Jump On...

Bots are in, and apps are out, says the media. And that fire was...

Bank Regulation
The Wells Effect

Last week, the CFPB came down on Wells Fargo when it exposed its egregious...