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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Dangers of Assuming Invincibility – Could Your Firm Go the...

There was a lot of great stuff that came out of the Payments Innovation...

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Why Facebook is Ripe for Commerce

I have always been up for a challenge. I read just last week a...

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“Googling” mPayments Ignition? Why Google’s Wallet May Be the Top...

– Ask the Industry: Will Google Wallet ignite mobile payments? Share your thoughts here....

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Analysis: Did Durbin Doom ISIS? Exec Reveals Reason for Strategy...

Hooray for the ISIS team for making the point that if Durbin is implemented...

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CrISIS at ISIS

OK, I have to say that the news yesterday about ISIS did not come...

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Analysis: Hip to be “Square?” Why Visa Thinks So

Last week’s announcement of Visa’s strategic investment in Square set off a wave of...

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Google Takes on NFC, Will They Crack the Code?

Google has signaled that it will do two things no one else in the...

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Google Takes a Bite of the Apple

Google and Apple made news last week when they announced their respective plans to...