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.

Karen Webster
Payments Disruption By Any Other Name

HBS Professor Clay Christensen published an article last week that said Uber isn’t a...

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Issuers To Apple Pay: Just Say No!

Odysseus was a pretty clever fellow. For those who might need a crash course in...

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The Great Facebook SMB Conversion Challenge

Facebook went all in on SMBs last week during its earnings call – citing...

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Through The Mobile Payments Looking Glass

“Curiouser and Curiouser” might have first been spoken by Alice in Wonderland after she...

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Mobile Payments’ Great Big Leap

There’s a perfect storm brewing in payments – one that’s intensifying because of the...

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The Dangers Of Groupthink

Was med-tech startup, Theranos, following in the footsteps of Uber and simply embarking on...

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Does The CFPB Really Help Consumers?

The law of unintended consequences is alive and well in Washington, D.C. and in...

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The Blockchain: ‘Just Like the Internet,’ Except That It’s Not

The Blockchain: “It’s just like the Internet.” And so starts every conversation by the...