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.

Bank Regulation
The Wells Effect

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

Surviving Payments Four Big Power Shifts
Payment Methods
Four Big Power Shifts For Commerce And Payments

For most of the last decade, we’ve been talking about the same old, same...

Tune In To Payments Reality Check!
Payment Methods
Tune In To Payments Reality Check!

“Reality Check” was a TV show that aired in 1995 about a couple of...

Retail
Walmart, Amazon And Retail’s Reinvention

The Boston Red Sox and The New York Yankees are the most celebrated rivalry...

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EMV
The Great August EMV Pile On

The whole world started piling on EMV last week. Media reported its confusing and...

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Mobile Payments
What Mobile Payments Can Learn From Debit Cards (Circa 1995)

We’ve been trying to ignite mobile payments now for more than a decade and...

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Payments Innovation
Visa/PayPal And The Future Of Payments

There’s no doubt that the announcement of the Visa/PayPal partnership shook the payments world...

Payments Innovation
Who’ll Be The ‘Netflix’ Of Payments?

Most people describe Netflix’s success as anticipating the shift from physical to digital media...