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
The Connected Economy Takes Off

December of 2019. It would be weeks before the first case of COVID-19 was...

Alexa Voice AI
Commerce Connected
Voice Operating Systems Like Alexa Will Power the Connected Economy:...

Alexa and voice AI is to the connected economy what Microsoft was to the...

Apple Pay
Apple Pay
Seven Years Later, Only 6% of People with iPhones in...

Remember this? It was about seven years ago – Sept. 9, 2014 – when...

Main Street SMBs
SMBs
To See What ‘Normal’ Looks Like, Watch Main Street SMBs

As the world navigates the latest surge in COVID cases attributed to the Delta...

Square Afterpay
Payments Innovation
What The Square Afterpay Deal Means For BNPL, FinTech, BigTech...

Square’s announcement that it’s going to acquire Afterpay for $29 billion just about broke...

BNPL Apple Pay Later
Buy Now Pay Later
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The “Pay Later” pure-play stocks took a drubbing last week on the news that...

Retail
Can Walmart+ Save Walmart From Amazon?

Today is Chris Cracchiolo’s first day on the job at Walmart. The 19-year American...

Destruction of Banking
Banking
The Creative Destruction Of Banking: Aspiration Or Ultimatum?

The economic principle of replacing existing business processes and models with innovative and more...