Karen Webster

Social Media Sentiments: Who Really Drives (Or Deters) Mobile Payments?
February 25, 2013

Neiman’s Loyalty Lessons Facebook Gets Physical MasterCard made plenty of news on Monday at Mobile World Congress. It announced the launch of MasterPass — its omni-channel digital wallet that will support QR codes, tags — and the NFC v.2 of PayPass, which was released last...

Facebook Gets Physical
February 05, 2013

NFC At MIT: Which Wallets Will Win? Neiman’s Loyalty Lessons The “Facebook goes offline” development of last week got me to thinking about a couple of things. First, it only reinforced the notion that Discover is dead serious about its ambition to be the innovation...

NFC At MIT: Which Wallets Will Win?
January 28, 2013

Neiman’s Loyalty Lessons Bad Data Makes Bad Decisions I had the pleasure of moderating a very fun panel right before Christmas (Doesn’t that seem like an eternity ago?!) on my all time favorite topic, mobile wallets. It was sponsored by the MIT NFC Cluster, which...

Neiman’s Loyalty Lessons
January 21, 2013

    ANALYSIS FROM KAREN WEBSTER   Bad Data Makes Bad Decisions   PYMNTS Prophecies: Our Take On Eight 2013 Predictions   There’s a new topic of conversation now in and around payments and that is about how to get and keep customers loyal. It’s...

Bad Data Makes Bad Decisions
January 08, 2013

PYMNTS Prophecies: Our Take On Eight 2013 Predictions 2012 Year In Review Happy 2013 everyone! Aren’t holidays just the best for catching up on reading old emails? Well, I did some of that too, and came across something that I have to admit caught my...

PYMNTS Prophecies: Our Take On Eight 2013 Predictions
January 01, 2013

2012 Year In Review Ready … Set … Wait! Will NFC continue to struggle in 2013? Will Apple fall in the battle for smartphone supremacy? How optimistic should we be about mobile wallets looking forward? There have been plenty of bold predictions made for the...

2012 Year In Review: A Look Back At The News And The Noise In Payments
December 30, 2012

  Ready … Set … Wait!   Discover: China’s Commerce Catalyst   2012 will go in the payments history books as the year that was … well… by and large mobile. Payments innovation fueled by the IP-enablement of devices used by consumers and merchants to...

Ready … Set … Wait!
December 16, 2012

  Discover: China’s Commerce Catalyst   Emerging Payments Goes To Washington   December 17, 2012 The Harris Poll released last week on the American consumer’s perception of the use of smartphones for digital wallets summed up the picture pretty much this way: great idea, but...

Discover: China’s Commerce Catalyst
December 10, 2012

  Emerging Payments Goes To Washington   If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t MCX It   December 12, 2012 One small step for Discover — one giant leap for emerging payments. Discover, China Union Pay and CardinalCommerce have joined forces to enable Union Pay cardholders to...