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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Does The CFPB Really Help Consumers?

The law of unintended consequences is alive and well in Washington, D.C. and in...

Karen Webster
The Blockchain: ‘Just Like the Internet,’ Except That It’s Not

The Blockchain: “It’s just like the Internet.” And so starts every conversation by the...

International
The Incredible Mobile Payments Myth

MPD CEO Karen Webster says that everything that you’ve heard over the last several...

Controversial
Will Ad Blockers Drive Mobile Commerce Innovation?

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Karen Webster
Will Apple Own The Payments Customer?

It’s September 14, 2022, eight years after the first Apple Pay network and issuer...

Karen Webster
“First, Let’s Kill All The (Payments) Innovators!”

Dick The Butcher, in Shakespeare’s "Henry VI," famously proposed “first let’s kill the lawyers”...

Karen Webster
The Great American (Express) Spin-off?

2015 has been a tough year for American Express. Its stock price and market...

Karen Webster
To See The Future Of Retail, Look At Mobile Banking

Want to see the future of retail? Take a look at retail banking today....