Karen Webster

How Many Consumers In Apple Pay’s Bushel Basket?
How Many Consumers In Apple Pay’s Bushel Basket?
December 08, 2014  |  Alternative Credit

Talk about poking a hornet’s nest. MPD Founder and economist, David Evans, wrote a piece on Friday about Apple Pay that got a lot of...

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What Do The God Particle, Yodeling and Knights Have To Do With The Future Of Payments?
What Do The God Particle, Yodeling and Knights Have To Do With The Future Of...
December 01, 2014  |  Cross-border Payments

“Vague but exciting.” These three words could be used to describe just about any early-stage idea when it’s first presented. I’ll bet every investor or...

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Weird Stuff In Payments
Weird Stuff In Payments
November 24, 2014  |  Commentary

“The path to any success is lined with disasters.” Adam Davidson wrote a pretty thought-provoking article on failure that was published in The New York...

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The Sure Fire Merchant Interchange Fee Fix
The Sure Fire Merchant Interchange Fee Fix
November 17, 2014  |  Karen Webster

I’m sure you’ve heard by now that the internet was on fire last week, and nearly broke. Yes, there was that Kim Kardashian Paper magazine...

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Why Apple Pay Needs Merchants More Than Merchants Need Apple Pay
Why Apple Pay Needs Merchants More Than Merchants Need Apple Pay
November 10, 2014  |  Cybersecurity

There are three things that I think we’d all agree are irrefutable outcomes of the launch of Apple Pay. Apple Pay has dominated just about...

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CurrentC And The Big Merchant Mess
CurrentC And The Big Merchant Mess
November 03, 2014  |  Cybersecurity

Whoever said there’s no such thing as bad PR obviously wasn’t on the receiving end of the whooping that Rite Aid, CVS and CurrentC took...

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The Real Reason Rite Aid Dumped Apple Pay
The Real Reason Rite Aid Dumped Apple Pay
October 27, 2014  |  Karen Webster

Ring, ring. Hi, Rite Aid. This is CurrentC (or a CurrentC rep) calling. You might not remember this since it was a few years and...

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The Scariest Things In Payments
The Scariest Things In Payments
October 27, 2014  |  Cybersecurity

The Scariest Things In Payments Friday is Halloween, a holiday in the U.S. that involves people – young and old – dressing up in (sometimes)...

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