BEIJING – Tickets at tourist sites like Beijing’s Forbidden City, bus rides in Guangzhou and drinks at Starbucks. Singapore travellers to China now have the option of linking their local bank accounts to a digital yuan app for such purchases.

From December , customers of the Singapore branches of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and the Bank of China (BOC) can top up their e-CNY wallets from their Singapore bank accounts.