Visa and Techcombank Win AmCham’s 2025 ESG Tech Innovation Award for Eco Card: Turning Every Spend Into Climate Action

12/08/2025

• The card that makes every transaction a force for good, Techcombank and Visa's award-winning Eco Card seamlessly integrates climate action into everyday spending, delivering unparalleled transparency and value for today’s conscious consumer.

 

 

Visa (NYSE: V), a world leader in digital payments, and Techcombank have been jointly honored with the prestigious 2025 AmCham ESG Tech Innovation Award for their groundbreaking Techcombank Visa Eco Card. Presented at AmCham’s annual Giving Thanks Dinner as part of the AmCham ESG Impact Showcase & Awards 2025, the award recognizes the card’s innovative use of payment technology to advance sustainable development and empower consumers in Vietnam.

The Techcombank Visa Eco Card – the first eco-friendly card in Vietnam – redefines the value of daily spending by giving cardholders instant, transparent insight into their environmental footprint. Using Visa’s proprietary category-based carbon model (Visa Sustainability Index), every eligible transaction is immediately converted into an estimated CO₂ value, which is displayed directly within the Techcombank Mobile app. This unprecedented transparency helps customers make informed choices and ensures every spend is meaningful.

The Eco Card is designed to simplify sustainable living while maximizing customer value:

  • Effortless Climate Action: Cardholders can seamlessly neutralize their carbon footprint by opting to offset their estimated emissions through curated, high-impact environmental projects in Vietnam, such as the Bac Lieu Wind Power project.
  • Exclusive Green Rewards: Users unlock exclusive rewards and benefits tailored for eco-friendly purchases and enjoy access to leading green mobility services, including Xanh SM and the HCMC Metro, making low-emission lifestyles more accessible and rewarding.
  • Sustainable Design: The card reduces plastic waste by offering a virtual-first approach and physical cards made from 100% recycled materials.

The card’s impact is already notable, demonstrating the power of collective consumer action: more than 157,000 kg of CO₂ has been offset to date – equivalent to planting 2,670 trees. With features such as U Point offsets, Autopay, and round‑up donations, cardholders can effortlessly amplify their positive footprint.

“We are honored that the Techcombank Visa Eco Card has been recognized by AmCham with the ESG Tech Innovation Award. This reflects the shared commitment of Visa and Techcombank to use payment technology to help Vietnamese consumers live more sustainably. The Eco Card shows how collaboration can make daily transactions meaningful for the environment,” said Ms. Dung Dang, Country Manager for Visa Vietnam and Laos.

Mrs. Nguyen Van Linh, Vice Chief of the Retail Banking Group at Techcombank, added: “The strong adoption of the Eco Card proves that our customers are actively seeking ways to make their money matter. Through our partnership with Visa, we have created a transparent, valuable, and responsible payment solution that not only supports a greener Vietnam but also gives cardholders the tools to manage their impact effortlessly.”

This initiative supports Visa’s global commitment to achieving net‑zero emissions by 2040 while delivering measurable impact in Vietnam. Together, Techcombank and Visa are making sustainable living the default choice – empowering every customer to make every spend meaningful.

 

 

About Visa

Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at Visa.com.

 

About Techcombank (Ticker: TCB VN, HOSE)

Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) is one of the largest joint stock banks in Vietnam, and a leading bank in Asia, with a vision to “Change banking, Change lives”. The Bank pursues a proven customer-centric strategy in providing a broad range of retail and corporate banking solutions and services to help financially empower its customers. Techcombank has ~17.0 million retail and corporate customers, which it serves through a market-leading digital banking platform and mobile app, and an extensive network of transaction service outlets at locations across Vietnam. The Bank’s ecosystem approach, co-created through partnerships in multiple key economic sectors, adds further scale and differentiation in one of the fastest growing markets in the world. Techcombank is rated AA- by FiinRatings, Ba3 by Moody’s and BB by S&P, among the highest rated joint stock commercial banks in Vietnam.