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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Will CurrentC Succeed? Here’s How We’ll Know

Bloomberg ran a story late Friday announcing the imminent launch of CurrentC, the merchant-owned...

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The A, B, Cs Of PayPal’s Next Act

Today is “day one” of PayPal as an independent player, broken apart from the...

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What’s More Valuable – A Buy Button Or a Digital...

Mobile payments is becoming a pretty messy space. One might argue that it’s been...

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Want To Meet A Few Of The “Payments Revolutionaries” Who’ve...

Last Saturday, America celebrated the 239th anniversary of the outcome that these revolutionaries fought...

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The Dangers of Listening To Consumers

In 1999, 92 percent of consumers said that they didn’t trust that their data...

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Are Card Networks Tomorrow’s Ad Platforms?

Card-linked offers have been singularly unimpressive as a category. They’ve been around for years...

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What Mobile Wallets And Smartphone Cameras Now Have In Common

Apple and Google Android have just recast mobile wallets as smartphone utilities – putting...

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The Most Frequently Asked Question About Mobile Payments

“Are we there yet,” though, is shorthand for “When will all of the time...