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.

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Payments Innovation
Visa/PayPal And The Future Of Payments

There’s no doubt that the announcement of the Visa/PayPal partnership shook the payments world...

Payments Innovation
Who’ll Be The ‘Netflix’ Of Payments?

Most people describe Netflix’s success as anticipating the shift from physical to digital media...

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Mobile Commerce
The Coming Clash Of The Commerce Titans

There’s a battle brewing in commerce, Karen Webster says. One that’s driven by the...

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Karen’s Two Cents – Week of 7/4

Friday, July 8, 2016: Thought to provoke on this Friday. Is messaging the new...

Mobile Payments
Apple Pay’s Tough Twenty Months

In the mood for a little role play today? Your head of product walks...

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Mobile Payments
Payments’ Innovation Half-Year Progress Report

At the start of the year, I wrote a piece that outlined six trends...

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What Apple Didn’t Tell You Last Week

This piece will give you important insight that hasn’t been covered about Apple’s developer...

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Amazon
The Rumble In Big Retail’s Jungle

The world lost “The Greatest of All Time,” boxer Muhammad Ali, over the weekend due...