Kuala lumpur: Digital payments company Visa has launched the Visa Agentic Ready programme to support the payments ecosystem in the era of agentic commerce. The programme is live and available across Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam in the Asia Pacific.
According to BERNAMA News Agency, the Visa Agentic Ready programme enables issuers to experience how artificial intelligence (AI) agents initiate and 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.
Visa Malaysia country manager Previn Pillay stated that Visa Agentic Ready offers Malaysian issuers a practical and structured approach to better understand how agent-initiated payments could operate on the Visa network before these experiences scale. He emphasized that Visa is working globally with merchants, platforms, and technology partners to enable trusted agent-driven commerce, ensuring that when these experiences mature, they come together seamlessly across the ecosystem. This approach aims to ensure innovation progresses responsibly, while keeping consumers in control of how and when payments are made.
The programme leverages Visa's network capabilities, bringing tokens, identity, risk, and controls to examine how trusted agent-initiated payments could be enabled across various use cases. Visa has already enrolled several partners across the region, including Alliance Bank Malaysia, CIMB Bank, Hong Leong Bank, and Maybank in Malaysia, with additional partners expected to join as the programme expands to merchants and ecosystem enablers.
Through a controlled, production-grade testing environment, the programme validates how agent-initiated payments function in real-world settings, helping issuers build confidence as these new experiences become a reality. This initiative supports Visa's broader transition towards intelligent, programmable commerce, where trusted credentials and network capabilities enable payments to respond securely and flexibly to consumer intent, context, and controls.
Visa is collaborating globally with AI platforms and developers, merchants, and ecosystem partners to enable trusted agent-initiated payments at scale. The programme ensures that issuers are prepared to support these transactions securely and with confidence. Individuals interested in participating in Visa Agentic Ready should contact their Visa account executive for further details.