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
What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Bill Belichick

Boy, did I ever step in it last week. I was speaking to a...

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Payments Industry Pairings and Partings In 2015

Here we are – 19 days into a new year and midway in the...

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Will Apple Pay Bring Banks And Merchants Together?

Last week, I was given a copy of the UBS report on Apple Pay....

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Are You Ready For 2015’s Retail Reinvention?

What does retail today have in common with retail in 1982? Everything – and...

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PYMNTS Greatest Hits

I wrote about 260,000 words over the last year summarizing my take on the...

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Did You Listen To Your Payments’ Sixth Sense This Year?

Yep. It’s that time of the year – when we pause to reflect on...

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What Payments Will Look Like In 2015

Last week I laid out the 10 things that happened in 2014 that I...

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The Ten Things That Changed Payments In 2014

Ah, yes, it’s the most magical time of the year. Predicting what the next...