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Payment apps, shopping sites eye more growth amid e-retail boom
They hope to expand reach and offer more services as pandemic keeps people home
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Singtel's mobile wallet Dash has seen a more than 40 per cent rise in monthly active users since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. It is working with travel partners to enable in-wallet purchases of tickets for local attractions, in anticipation of travel restrictions being lifted.
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Buying chicken rice at a hawker centre without cash was previously unheard of, but now, customers can simply scan QR codes with their phones to pay.
The increasingly widespread use of e-payments - from buying hawker food to shopping online - has given a boost to some companies amid the digital push accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
