Karen Webster

Do Android Pay, Google Wallet And Samsung Pay Have What It Takes To Win In...
March 02, 2015

Last week, there were a couple of major announcements in the world of mobile payments that suggest that the battle for supremacy in the mobile payments world is heating up –  and in a pretty big way. We’ll certainly hear and know lots more as...

Mobile Payments’ Red Carpet
February 23, 2015

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Can Anything Save Loyalty?
February 16, 2015

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PayPal’s Retail Future
February 09, 2015

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Payments Innovation Rankings Soon To Be Unveiled
February 02, 2015

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The Fed’s Slow March To Maybe Faster Payments
January 27, 2015

The payments world was literally sitting on pins and needles waiting for the Fed to disclose more specifics on its 18-month study about how to deliver “faster payments” here in the U.S. This anxiety was created after the Fed floated its preliminary report last year...

What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Bill Belichick
January 26, 2015

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Payments Industry Pairings and Partings In 2015
January 19, 2015

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Will Apple Pay Bring Banks And Merchants Together?
January 12, 2015

Last week, I was given a copy of the UBS report on Apple Pay. It claims that the launch of Apple Pay has accelerated the efforts of the retailers to join forces with banks to create bank-branded wallets. It says that these bank-branded wallets would...