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.

Karen Webster
How To Reinvent Retail In Three Words

Coming out of the Retail Reinvention Summit last week, one thing became very clear:...

Karen Webster
Payments At The Beach!

It’s the first week of August time and that can only mean one thing:...

Karen Webster
The Emperor’s New Currency

One hundred and seventy eight years ago, Hans Christian Andersen wrote a political satire...

Controversial
Will CurrentC Succeed? Here’s How We’ll Know

Bloomberg ran a story late Friday announcing the imminent launch of CurrentC, the merchant-owned...

Hmmm
The A, B, Cs Of PayPal’s Next Act

Today is “day one” of PayPal as an independent player, broken apart from the...

Karen Webster
What’s More Valuable – A Buy Button Or a Digital...

Mobile payments is becoming a pretty messy space. One might argue that it’s been...

Karen Webster
Want To Meet A Few Of The “Payments Revolutionaries” Who’ve...

Last Saturday, America celebrated the 239th anniversary of the outcome that these revolutionaries fought...

Karen Webster
The Dangers of Listening To Consumers

In 1999, 92 percent of consumers said that they didn’t trust that their data...