Coronavirus: how cash-mad Philippines learned to love digital money thanks to Covid-19

With her neighbourhood south of Manila locked down due to the coronavirus, Dolly Pelle had been planning to close her sari-sari convenience store – until customers convinced her they couldn’t do without her.Pelle’s store is one of a handful of similar shops all on the same street, but her’s has a crucial difference: it is the only one able to process local remittances.Lock down, start up: the digital firms cashing in on coronavirus in the PhilippinesIn the past four years in the Philippines,…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/2WKBOVR