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September 27, 2018

Blockchain Tech

Why Walmart Says Blockchain Can Improve Food Safety

Walmart, keen on putting transparency and trust back into the world’s food system, has turned to blockchain and will require suppliers to use it to provide a transparent view into food product origins, all the way back to the farm. Karen Webster talks with Frank Yiannas, Walmart’s vice president of food safety, about the idea’s genesis, why leafy greens are the initial blockchain use cases and what this all means for brands at the grocery store.

 

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FinTech

Latin American FinTech Payment ‘Recipes’

Digital payments and commerce, and associated FinTech, are taking root in Latin America. NovoPayment CEO Anabel Pérez tells PYMNTS that success in a region that shares a similar language, and roughly similar history, requires a different “recipe” using the same foundational payment ingredients to meet local market conditions. Here are a few of her favorite LATAM FinTech recipes.

 

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B2B Payments eBook

Getting Out Of The B2B Payments Slog

It can be a slog: paper-based processes, complex markets, cyberthreats. Getting to the last mile of the B2B journey — managing cash and settling payments — can be an arduous trek. The new PYMNTS eBook offers insight and advice from seasoned payment professionals who travel the last mile every day and know all the shortcuts. Check out the eBook to ease the B2B payments schlep.

 

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Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker™

TRENDING: Portillo’s On Pushing Order-Ahead Security To The Next Level

Order-ahead is taking order size and security to the next level. In this month’s Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker, PYMNTS chats with Portillo's VP John Holmes on how it has super-sized its menu options by adding group lunches and dinners while keeping consumer payment data secure by minimizing touchpoints.

 

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