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 the EMV Journey Worth the Price?

Several reports surfaced last week that reaffirmed what we’ve all suspected – rolling out...

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Alibaba: The Other 550M Gorilla in Payments

While everyone in payments has been focused on another player out west whose name...

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PYMNTS Flashback: Alibaba And ShopRunner Say “Open Sesame” To Digital...

Everybody knows the ancient story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. “Open Sesame”...

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The Payments Networks’ Next Real Threat

What begins with an 'A' and is the biggest threat to the payments networks...

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How Much Is Square Really Worth?

The payments version of the rumor mill has been going full tilt about whether...

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Walmart Banks on Cash

Walmart got the entire financial services industry buzzing last week with its Walmart-2-Walmart domestic...

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Fed’s Mobile Use Numbers—That Was Then, This is Now

The Fed issued its update recently on the state of the mobile US landscape...

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Black Swans, Payments and 1982

Actions in the aftermath of the recent merchant data breaches have demonstrated the potential...