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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“Fee Cap” And Those Other Three-Letter Words In Payments

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Picking Yelp’s Future Payments Partner

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PYMNTS Prophecies: The Mid-Year Edition

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Twenty-Two Banks and One Secure Cloud

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PayPal Shoots For The Moon

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If Cash Isn’t Dying, Can Electronic Payments Grow?

Let’s start the first week of summer by turning the discussion of cash as...

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Where In The World Is ISIS Wallet?

My, how time flies when you are having fun in the digital wallet space!...