Opinion

Karen Webster
Payments 2015: By The Letter eBook
December 10, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”187803″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/The-ABCs-of-Payments-20151.pdf”][vc_btn title=”DOWNLOAD NOW” style=”flat” color=”inverse” align=”center” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pymnts.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F12%2FThe-ABCs-of-Payments-20151.pdf||target:%20_blank” button_block=”true”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]In many ways, 2015 was the year in which everything – and nothing — about payments changed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Karen Webster
The Rest Of The Payments 2015 By The Letter: S Through Z
December 09, 2015

A was for Apple Pay, B was for bitcoin and C was for cross-border. OK, maybe you saw those ones coming, but whatever could the Z stand for in MPD CEO Karen Webster’s Payments 2015 By The Letter? Read Part 3 of Webster's three-part series...

Karen Webster
Payments 2015 By The Letter: L Through R
December 08, 2015

Narrowing an entire year of payments activity into a 26-item list may sound like quite the feat. And with one for every letter of the alpahabet? Nearly impossible. But MPD CEO Karen Webster is not one to back down from the challenge, and Part II...

Payments Disruption By Any Other Name
November 23, 2015

HBS Professor Clay Christensen published an article last week that said Uber isn’t a disruptive innovation - even though 100 out of 100 people would beg to differ. MPD CEO Karen Webster suggests that now may be the time to retire Christensen’s nearly 30-year-old framework,...

Issuers To Apple Pay: Just Say No!
November 16, 2015

Odysseus was a pretty clever fellow. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to receive...

The Great Facebook SMB Conversion Challenge
November 09, 2015

Facebook went all in on SMBs last week during its earnings call – citing a number of things that they are doing to make SMBs their BFFs. But MPD CEO Karen Webster wonders whether that’s just another way to drive ad dollars to the Facebook...

Karen Webster
Through The Mobile Payments Looking Glass
November 02, 2015

“Curiouser and Curiouser” might have first been spoken by Alice in Wonderland after she tumbled down the rabbit hole, but it seems to sum up the state of play now in mobile payments. MPD CEO Karen Webster says that the Chase Pay announcement last week...

Shift Happens (In Payments)
October 28, 2015

Several years ago, I was listening to current JW Player President, Chris Mahl, give a talk on mobile payments and loyalty. He started the speech by recounting something they lived by during his days at Oracle: “shift happens.” It does. In fact, if you follow...

Karen Webster
Mobile Payments’ Great Big Leap
October 26, 2015

There’s a perfect storm brewing in payments – one that’s intensifying because of the shift to EMV. And one that could accelerate the adoption of mobile payments. But not the way that you think, says MPD CEO Karen Webster. The impressive results that merchants are...