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.

Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral
Retail
Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral

Consumers crave certainty, and they work pretty hard to minimize the risk of making...

Time Savings - Technology - Efficiency
Innovation
 What The Great Time Revolution Means For Consumers

The “Mighty Thor” was a household game-changer in 1908. Invented by Alva John Fisher,...

Merchants Go Digital-First
Payments Innovation
 How Consumers Forced Big Merchants To Up Their Digital-First Game

Human beings are creatures of habit. Take popcorn and going to the movies. Americans...

What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix
Payments Innovation
 What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the...

Subscription Commerce
 The Rise Of The Auto-Refill Economy

The Commerce Department released July’s retail sales last week, showing an increase in seasonally...

Overcoming Inertia To Move Past Physical Retail
Payments Innovation
 What Overcoming Inertia Tells Us About The Future of Physical...

By now, you’ve no doubt heard the story about how Isaac Newton turned quarantining...

Digital Platforms And The Illusion Of Monopoly
ANTITRUST
 Big Tech And The Optical Illusion Of Monopoly

The most interesting thing about Big Tech’s Fab Four tour of Capitol Hill last...

A 90-Year-Old Essay And 2020’s Digital Shift
Payments Innovation
 What A 90-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About 2020’s Great Digital...

“We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism.” That is...