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.

Connected Economy
RIP Digital Transformation, We Hardly Knew Ya

It’s over. It’s done. Stick a fork in it. All those digital habits that...

Streaming
It’s Time for Netflix to Stage Its Next Blockbuster Pivot

When Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and INSEAD Professor Erin Meyer released their business book...

Karen Webster
The One Big Thing Apple’s Project Breakout Needs but Doesn’t...

Project Breakout is said to be Apple’s now-not-so-secret plan to turn itself into a...

Amazon
Will Amazon Make Streaming Shoppable?

The Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” which debuted in May of 2021, didn’t exactly...

Consumer Insights
The Value of Consumer Certainty in Driving Digital Transformation

There has been so much written over the last two years about the consumer’s...

Amazon Acquisitions
Peloton and the Amazon Effect on Fitness

Last Friday’s news that Amazon could be one of the suitors interested in buying...

BNPL
The BNPL Innovation That Pure Plays Unlocked and Banks Are...

When general-purpose credit cards were introduced in the late 50s and early 60s, they...

CBDC
The Three Most Important Questions for the Fed on Its...

The Fed released its long-awaited paper on Central Bank Digital Currencies last week. After...