Karen Webster

Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World In Payments Innovation?

Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World In Payments Innovation?
Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World In Payments Innovation?
July 14, 2014  |  Commentary

Financial Times columnist John Gapper got a check for a dollar in the mail which prompted him to write a piece that more or less...

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Can A Show About Nothing Teach One (Almost) Everything They Need To Know About Payments?
Can A Show About Nothing Teach One (Almost) Everything They Need To Know About Payments?
July 07, 2014  |  Commentary

Sometimes it rains on the fourth of July and the only thing to do is binge watch Seinfeld. However, in the hands of MPD CEO...

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Is Amazon Fire A Threat to Payments?
Is Amazon Fire A Threat to Payments?
June 30, 2014  |  Commentary

Jeff Bezos sent people invited to the launch of the Fire phone a children’s book about a man who painted his house purple so he...

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To Disrupt or Not To Disrupt: Is That Really The Question?
To Disrupt or Not To Disrupt: Is That Really The Question?
June 23, 2014  |  Commentary

It is hard to imagine Harvard professors as anything but the sorts of people inclined to shop at J. Crew and with excellent manners. So...

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Are the Best Days over for Digital Wallets?
Are the Best Days over for Digital Wallets?
June 18, 2014  |  Commentary

The slow path to digital wallets ignition has caused some in the business to say that they’re all but dead and more or less the...

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PayPal’s Marcus Moves To Facebook
PayPal’s Marcus Moves To Facebook
June 10, 2014  |  Acquiring

Old news but new analysis. Check out Karen Webster’s take on the news that stopped the payments world from spinning on its axis for a...

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What Apple Didn’t Say That Acquirers Should Have Heard
What Apple Didn’t Say That Acquirers Should Have Heard
June 09, 2014  |  Acquiring

Last week’s Apple WWDC keynote has prompted a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacking with respect to Apple’s plans for devices, software and even payments. Although...

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Will Apple Become The American Express of Mobile Payments?
Will Apple Become The American Express of Mobile Payments?
June 02, 2014  |  Commentary

Today is the day that we might actually get a peek into Apple’s playbook on mobile payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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