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Connecting Global Payments, Empowering Business Growth
BeijingJune 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The 2026 China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) opened today in Beijing. As a global leader in digital payments, Visa is participating for the fourth consecutive year, showcasing its latest capabilities in trusted payment infrastructure, global fund flow solutions, data intelligence, and AI-driven commerce under the theme “Connecting Global Payments, Empowering Business Growth,” helping enterprises enhance supply chain collaboration efficiency and drive more resilient business growth.
Yin Xiaolong, President of Visa China, stated: “As global supply chains undergo accelerated restructuring, enterprises’ challenges have shifted from single-point efficiency to building systematic capabilities for cross-regional, multi-entity, and highly collaborative operations. Leveraging our global payment network and localized partnership ecosystem, Visa is connecting consumers, businesses, data intelligence, and trusted AI to build a more stable and efficient payment infrastructure for the entire industry chain, supporting the high-quality development of the real economy.”
Connecting Consumers: From Inbound-Friendly to Outbound Hassle-Free
With the release of policy benefits such as the 240-hour transit visa exemption, cross-border tourism and consumption continue to recover, and payments are becoming a key infrastructure connecting “travel, sightseeing, and shopping.” Visa is committed to creating a friendly payment environment for global travelers, helping cities enhance their “barrier-free payment” capabilities, while also providing Chinese consumers with a smoother and more secure outbound payment experience.
At the CISCE, Visa showcased multiple achievements in collaborating with local partners to improve the inbound payment ecosystem: Beijing’s “Central Axis Barrier-Free Payment Tourism Demonstration Zone” has empowered over 5,000 small and micro enterprises to upgrade foreign card acceptance; Shanghai’s “Visa Friendly Payment Demonstration Zone” has optimized the acceptance environment along eight major international tourism routes, innovatively implementing convenient solutions such as mobile phone camera scanning. In high-frequency scenarios like transportation, Visa continues to expand the “Tap and Ride” experience, now covering cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou. An interactive zone is specially set up at the CISCE venue, allowing visitors to experience the seamless integration of “travel + payment.”
At the same time, Visa is also helping Chinese consumers go global. In outbound scenarios, Visa has enabled Chinese cardholders to bind their Visa cards to Apple Pay for use in offline, online, and app scenarios abroad. Security technologies such as payment tokenization provide a more reassuring and seamless experience for cross-border transactions.
Connecting Businesses: More Efficient and Controllable Cross-Border Trade
Facing the higher demands on fund flows posed by supply chain restructuring, Visa is highlighting its one-stop business and fund flow solutions for enterprises, helping them simplify cross-border transactions, improve reconciliation efficiency, and optimize cash flow management.
During this exhibition, Visa is presenting its commercial payment solutions covering corporate travel and entertainment (T&E), corporate procurement, and small and medium-sized enterprise card usage needs, along with extended data services, electronic management tools, and capabilities such as Visa Commercial Pay. Visa Direct, as one of the core fund flow capabilities, connects bank cards, bank accounts, and digital wallets through a single access point, significantly improving the efficiency and certainty of cross-border payments. This service now covers 195 countries and regions, supports over 150 currencies, and is widely applicable to scenarios such as supplier payments, payroll disbursement, and e-commerce settlements.
During the exhibition, Visa will also sign a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding with Lakala, exploring the use of the Bulk Payment to Service Provider (BPSP) model to drive the digitalization of cross-border B2B payments. Under this model, buyer enterprises can use commercial cards to pay suppliers who do not yet accept cards, enhancing fund management flexibility while helping suppliers achieve more efficient and stable payment collection experiences.
Connecting Data: From Transaction Processing to Value Insights
Leveraging its global payment network, Visa is continuously releasing data and insight capabilities to help enterprises more accurately understand markets and consumer behavior. Through Visa Value-Added Services, the company combines payment capabilities, data insights, technology, and industry expertise to provide systematic support to financial institutions and merchants in key areas such as card issuance, acceptance, risk management, and consulting services. These capabilities help clients optimize operational efficiency and customer experience, supporting their global expansion. For example, Visa can provide customized industry analysis and customer insights for enterprises going global, assisting in formulating more targeted market and marketing strategies.
Connecting Trusted AI: Building a “Trust and Control Layer” for Intelligent Commerce
As AI moves from information analysis to transaction execution, security and trust become key prerequisites for the scaling of intelligent commerce. Visa is committed to providing a trusted, controllable, and traceable payment infrastructure for AI-driven commercial activities, building a “trust and control layer” to support the operation of various intelligent agents.
At the CISCE, Visa prominently showcased its Visa Intelligent Commerce solution—integrating APIs and partner programs, combining capabilities such as payment tokenization, identity verification, payment instructions, and transaction signals, enabling AI agents to securely, transparently, and with authorization complete payments on behalf of consumers. Its core architecture, the Trusted Agent Protocol, uses an agent-specific encrypted signature mechanism to verify AI agent identity and transaction intent, and adopts an open low-code design to help merchants build confidence in AI transactions without significantly modifying their systems.
Currently, in the Asia-Pacific region, Visa is working with partners such as Ant International, LG Uplus, Microsoft, Perplexity, Stripe, and Tencent to advance intelligent commerce applications. Additionally, Visa has completed hundreds of real transactions initiated by AI in North America and Asia-Pacific, and plans to further expand large-scale applications by 2026.
Through this CISCE, Visa will continue to use payments as a link, collaborating with partners in China and globally to efficiently connect fund flows, information flows, and value flows, helping the upstream and downstream of the industry chain improve collaboration efficiency and operational resilience, providing stable and trusted digital payment support for long-term business growth and high-quality supply chain development.
About Visa
Visa (NYSE: V) is a global leader in digital payments, serving consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payment network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. We believe that inclusive economies empower everyone to advance and progress everywhere, and that opening opportunities for all is the foundation of the future movement of money. For more information, please visit: https://www.Visa.cn/