DBS Becomes 1st Bank in Asia-Pacific to Pilot Visa Intelligent Commerce for Daily Payments
In February 2026, DBS Bank Limited, Southeast Asia’s largest lender, entered into a strategic partnership with Visa, a global leader in digital payments, to drive the future of agent-initiated payments through a joint pilot under Visa Intelligent Commerce (VIC).
In February 2026, DBS Bank Limited, Southeast Asia’s largest lender, entered into a strategic partnership with Visa, a global leader in digital payments, to drive the future of agent-initiated payments through a joint pilot under Visa Intelligent Commerce (VIC).
- With this, DBS has now become the 1st issuer in Asia Pacific to drive real-world agentic commerce use cases.
Key Details of Collaboration:
About VIC: It will offer a comprehensive suite of integrated Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and partner programmes, leveraging Visa’s secure infrastructure to enable safe, transparent and consent-driven payments by Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, on behalf of consumers.
Pilot: Under the pilot, AI-powered agents successfully carried out food and beverage transactions on behalf of customers using DBS/POSB credit and debit cards, with payments processed through secure, issuer-controlled flows and customer consent.
Expansion: Following the successful demonstration, DBS and Visa plan to expand the pilot to include online shopping, travel bookings, and other routine digital payment transactions.
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