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
Commerce Connected
How Consumers Live In The Connected Economy

Over the last year, nearly everyone — 92 percent of consumers — went online...

Footprints
Payments Innovation
Overdrafts, Merchant Fees And Crypto: Why You Can’t Have It...

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s exchange with J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon on overdraft fees has...

Connected Economy
Commerce Connected
 The Instacart Way To Innovating In The Connected Economy

Would you be surprised if I told you that as many U.S. consumers now...

Coinbase Netscape
Payments Innovation
 Is Coinbase Netscape 2.0? Here Are Five Things You Must...

Coinbase’s April 14 IPO was the stock market event that launched a thousand superlatives....

Cut POS Cord
Payments Innovation
 When Will Consumers Cut The In-Store POS Cord?

Netflix first introduced its streaming service in the U.S. in January of 2007. It...

Retail Grocery
Retail
We’ve Seen The Future of Retail – And It’s At...

The U.S. has 40,460 grocery stores. If you want to see how physical retail...

New Normal COVID-19
Digital Payments
What Consumers Say About The Reopening Of The Physical World...

The U.S. has mobilized the largest COVID-19 vaccination rollout of any country in the...

Payments Disruption
Payments Innovation
Digital Intermediaries Threaten The Payments Status Quo

March 19 will mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. lockdown in the face...