Visa Launches ‘Agentic Ready’ Program in Asia Pacific with 5 Vietnam-Based Issuers to Advance Agentic Commerce

05/11/2026

 

 

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, announced the launch of its global Agentic Ready program in Asia Pacific. Visa Agentic Ready is designed to support the payments ecosystem in the era of agent-led commerce.

In its first phase, Visa Agentic Ready focuses on issuer readiness, providing a structured pathway for issuers to test, validate and understand agent-initiated transactions in a controlled, production-grade environment. The program enables issuers to experience how AI agents initiate complete transactions on behalf of consumers, and to test their readiness to support agentic commerce – while maintaining the trust, control, and protections that underpin the Visa network.

“Vietnam’s participation in Visa Agentic Ready underscores strong issuer engagement and reflects the country’s momentum in digital payments innovation. Many issuers are already developing or deploying capabilities such as tokenization and device binding to support and help shape the next generation of commerce. For everyday consumers, this means simpler, safer, and more seamless ways to pay in their daily lives. By working closely with financial institutions, we are supporting the responsible and scalable rollout of new payment experiences that expand access to trusted digital payments, in line with Vietnam’s economic growth and national digitalisation agenda. This reinforces Visa’s long‑term commitment to building a future‑ready payments ecosystem in Vietnam and across the region,” said Ms. Dung Dang, Visa Country Manager for Vietnam and Laos.

Visa Agentic Ready is powered by Visa’s foundational network capabilities, bringing together tokens, identity, risk and controls to examine how trusted agent‑initiated payments could be enabled across use cases. This builds on Visa Intelligent Commerce – Visa’s portfolio of initiatives and solutions focused on enabling trusted, AI-driven commerce experiences at scale.

 

From Readiness to Real‑World Scale

Bringing agentic commerce to life at scale requires coordination across the payments ecosystem, and Visa has enrolled several partners from 10 markets across the region into the Agentic Ready program. In Vietnam, Visa has conducted successful program testing with a broad base of local issuers and is engaging with leading financial institutions as part of Phase I. Vietnam issuers participating or engaged in the program include Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB), SAIGON THUONG TIN COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK BANK (SACOMBANK), Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint-Stock Bank (Techcombank), and Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) with further engagement expected as the program evolves.

Mr. Nguyen Tam Khoa, Deputy Director of Consumer Banking, Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), shared: “Preparing for the future of payments starts with understanding today’s technology. Visa Agentic Ready provides banks with that understanding.”

Mr. Vu Thanh Trung, Vice Chairman of BOD, Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB), shared: “For us, confidence comes from testing in real-world conditions. Visa Agentic Ready provides a safe space to evaluate agent-initiated payments without compromising trust or security.”

Ms. Nguyen Phuong Huyen, Member of the Executive Management, SAIGON THUONG TIN COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK BANK (SACOMBANK), shared: “Security and trust are critical as AI-driven payments emerge. This program allows banks to test new flows with those principles front and centre.”

Ms. Nguyen Van Linh, Deputy Head of Retail Banking Group, Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint-Stock Bank (Techcombank), shared: “Techcombank’s pioneering collaboration with Visa to launch Visa Agentic Ready reflects its strong commitment to a customer-centric innovation strategy. The bank views Agentic AI not only as a tool to enhance operational efficiency, but more importantly, as an enabler of more seamless, intelligent, and highly personalized payment and commerce experiences for customers in the e-commerce ecosystem. By proactively embracing leading global technologies, Techcombank aims to continuously improve convenience, speed, and trust across every transaction, thereby creating sustainable value and superior customer satisfaction.”

Mr. Haroon Durrani Jahanzeb, Director of Unsecured, Credit Card Solutions Center, Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank), shared: “Agentic commerce is not just a technology shift, but an ecosystem shift. This program supports banks through that transition.”

Through the controlled, production-grade testing environment, the program validates how agent-initiated payments operate in real world environments, helping issuers build confidence as these new experiences become a reality.

This effort supports Visa’s broader shift towards intelligent, programmable commerce, where trusted credentials and network capabilities enable payments to respond securely and flexibly to consumer intent, context and controls. As more of the shopping journey becomes automated, this helps ensure agents can act seamlessly on a consumer’s behalf – while keeping people firmly in control.

Visa is working globally with AI platforms and developers, merchants, and ecosystem partners to enable trusted agent-initiated payments at scale. Visa Agentic Ready helps ensure issuers are prepared to support these transactions securely and with confidence.

The program is live and available across Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Those interested in participating in the Visa Agentic Ready program can contact their Visa account executive for more information.

 

About Visa

Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, sellers, 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.