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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Experts Debate EMV and mPayments Mojo

I had the chance to moderate an awesome panel of mobile payments “playmakers” on...

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From Search to Swipe…Google Does Cards

So, I wonder how many payments industry hearts stopped beating yesterday morning when the...

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Tempo, Take 2: Lessons the Payments Sector Can Learn From

The interview that I did with Mike Grossman, CEO of Tempo Payments triggered several...

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Will Zong Make eBay the Future of Retail Commerce?

eBay’s announcement yesterday of its acquisition of Zong is just another interesting example of...

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Dangers of Assuming Invincibility – Could Your Firm Go the...

There was a lot of great stuff that came out of the Payments Innovation...

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Why Facebook is Ripe for Commerce

I have always been up for a challenge. I read just last week a...

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“Googling” mPayments Ignition? Why Google’s Wallet May Be the Top...

– Ask the Industry: Will Google Wallet ignite mobile payments? Share your thoughts here....

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Analysis: Did Durbin Doom ISIS? Exec Reveals Reason for Strategy...

Hooray for the ISIS team for making the point that if Durbin is implemented...