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.

Delivery
Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?

Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong...

Payments Innovation
Why Household Finances Under The Hood Don’t Look So Good

Paul McCartney and The Beatles may have told us that money can’t buy us...

Payments Innovation
How Uncertainty Kills Commerce

Scientists say that humans have a lot in common with mice. Both species, a...

Payments Innovation
Has Unbundling Lost Its Cool?

Is unbundling the future? So it would seem. Banking is being unbundled. Open banking,...

Grocery
Payments Innovation
Are Retailers Ready For Amazon’s Prime Time?

My plan on Friday evening was to write a hard-hitting piece on a services...

Payments Innovation
Amazon Restaurants, Big Threat Or Essential Lifeline?

The restaurant industry today is a study in contradictions. Census data tells us that...

Payments Innovation
The Case For Contextual Commerce

Before there was on demand, there was time shifting. In 1985, cable companies introduced...

Regulation
Is GDPR EU’s Frankenstein Monster?

Two hundred years ago, the world was introduced to Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s...