From June 23 to 26, 2026, the China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo officially opened in Beijing. The international payment giant Visa participated in this exhibition for the fourth consecutive year. This year, with the theme of “Connecting Global Payments and Intelligent Business Growth”, it comprehensively demonstrated its latest capabilities in trusted payment infrastructure, global capital flow solutions, data intelligence and AI-driven business fields, helping various enterprises to improve supply chain synergy efficiency and promote more resilient business growth.
The relevant person in charge of Visa China said that as the global supply chain accelerates the restructuring, the challenge for enterprises has shifted from single-point efficiency to cross-regional, multi-agent, and strong coordination of systemic capability building.
Relying on its global payment network and localized cooperation ecosystem, Visa is building a more stable and efficient payment infrastructure for the upstream and downstream of the industry chain by connecting consumers, enterprises, data intelligence and trusted AI, and assisting the high-quality development of the real economy.
In terms of inbound payment ecological construction, Visa Beijing’s “Central Axis Accessible Payment Tourism Demonstration Zone” has empowered more than 5,000 small and micro enterprises to upgrade their foreign card acceptance capabilities; Shanghai’s “Visa Friendly Payment Demonstration Zone” optimizes the acceptance environment along eight major international tourism routes and innovates convenient payment solutions such as mobile phone camera scanning.
In high-frequency livelihood scenarios such as transportation, Visa continues to expand the “click and ride” experience. Currently, relevant services have covered core domestic cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou.
During this exhibition, Visa also focused on presenting business payment solutions covering corporate travel and entertainment (T&E), corporate procurement and card usage needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as extended data services, electronic management tools and supporting capabilities such as Visa Commercial Pay.
Among them, Visa Direct, as one of the core capital flow capabilities, connects bank cards, bank accounts and e-wallets through a single access point, significantly improving the efficiency and certainty of cross-border payments. The service currently covers 195 countries and regions, supports more than 150 currencies, and is widely used in diverse scenarios such as supplier payment, salary payment and e-commerce settlement.
At present, Visa’s services have shifted from transaction processing to value insight. Relying on the global payment network, Visa is continuing to release data and insight capabilities to help companies understand the market and consumer behavior more accurately.
Through Visa value-added services, the platform combines payment capabilities, data insights, technology and industry experience to provide systematic support to financial institutions and merchants in key areas such as card issuance, acceptance, risk management and consulting services.
Currently in the Asia-Pacific region, Visa has jointly promoted intelligent business applications with a number of leading technology and payment companies. At the same time, it has completed hundreds of real transactions initiated by AI in North America and Asia-Pacific. In 2026, it will further expand the scope of large-scale application of related technologies.
The most watched action during this exhibition was Visa’s official announcement of the signing of a strategic cooperation memorandum with Lakala. The two parties will deepen cooperation around cross-border B2B payment scenarios, rely on innovative business payment models, improve the efficiency of cross-border transactions and capital turnover capabilities of enterprises, and help Chinese enterprises integrate into the global supply chain system more efficiently and smoothly.
Currently, how to improve cross-border payment efficiency and optimize capital flow experience within the compliance framework has become a core pain point of concern in the foreign trade industry.
Focusing on this demand, Visa and Lakala have clarified the solution path with business payment capabilities as the core in this cooperation, focusing on promoting the exploration of the Business Payment Solution Provider (BPSP) model, and promoting the evolution of cross-border B2B payment methods based on bank transfers to more digital and scalable solutions.
Under this model, corporate buyers can use commercial cards to complete corporate payments that do not originally support bank card acceptance, thereby obtaining more flexible account period management and fund arrangements; at the same time, suppliers can receive payments in their existing preferred method without changing existing business processes, achieving a more efficient and more certain fund arrival experience.
Relying on this innovative model, Visa and its partners are expected to build a more efficient fund connection and settlement system between transaction parties. While improving the corporate payment experience, it will expand the boundaries of commercial payment applications for financial institutions and promote the accelerated transformation of cross-border B2B transactions from traditional transfers to digital payments.
At the specific implementation level, Lakala will rely on its deep accumulation in foreign trade merchant networks and industrial scenarios, combined with insights into transaction data and purchasing behaviors, to collaboratively identify cross-border payment needs, and gradually link overseas card issuers and payment network resources to promote the application and large-scale replication of relevant solutions in real trade scenarios.
The relevant person in charge of Lakala said that the two parties will focus on typical foreign trade scenarios such as Guangzhou’s professional wholesale market in the future, and work with more partners to open up full-process service links for cross-border transactions and payment settlements, helping more small and medium-sized foreign trade merchants to better connect to the global market.
