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.

Payments Innovation
Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To...

You can see it in the quarterly earnings reports this year of just about...

Payments Innovation
Google’s Super App Wakeup Call

In June of 2019, PYMNTS asked a national sample of 1,037 smartphone users about...

Coronavirus
 COVID Crisis: What Happens If Most People Don’t Get The...

On the same day that COVID-19 cases in the U.S. topped 10 million and...

Digital and Physical Retail
Payments Innovation
 Retail 2022: Digital Taps Pent-Up Consumer Demand

It’s one year from today: Nov. 9, 2021. It’s been 18 months since the...

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Subscriptions
 Walmart+ And Amazon Prime Face Off As Consumers Decide Who...

“Membership has its privileges” was the nine-year ad campaign launched by American Express in...

How Customers Fall Through The Cracks Of Digital Platforms
eCommerce
 How Customers Fall Through The Cracks Of Digital Platforms

“Whose customer am I? And who’s going to take care me?” Those are the...

Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral
Retail
Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral

Consumers crave certainty, and they work pretty hard to minimize the risk of making...

Time Savings - Technology - Efficiency
Innovation
 What The Great Time Revolution Means For Consumers

The “Mighty Thor” was a household game-changer in 1908. Invented by Alva John Fisher,...