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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Is Yelp + Amazon The Mobile Commerce Game Changer?

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Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World...

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Are the Best Days over for Digital Wallets?

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PayPal’s Marcus Moves To Facebook

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What Apple Didn’t Say That Acquirers Should Have Heard

Last week’s Apple WWDC keynote has prompted a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacking with...