Visa is expanding its office space in the Philippines as the global digital payments company continues to grow its operations in the country.
The company has signed an expansion lease with SM Offices, the commercial leasing arm of SM Prime Holdings Inc. (SM Prime), to more than double its office space at the SM Mall of Asia Complex.
Visa will move from Five E-com Center to Four E-com Center, a much larger facility. The new location will serve as the Visa Philippines Solution Center and will give the company more space to support its growing operations and employees.
The expansion also shows the continued demand for large office spaces from multinational companies operating in the country. Companies are looking for workplaces that can give them enough space to bring different functions together while also allowing them to expand their operations.
Visa Expands Its Philippine Office
Visa will relocate from an approximately 4,000-square-meter office at Five E-com Center to a 9,000-square-meter facility at Four E-com Center. This means the company will more than double the size of its office space within the SM Mall of Asia Complex.
The new facility will house the Visa Philippines Solution Center, which will bring together administrative, financial, and technology functions in one location. The facility will operate under a 24/7 model to support the different functions of Visa’s Philippine operations.
The larger office will give Visa more room for its operations. Aside from supporting business growth, the company said that the new workplace will also help improve the employee experience.
The expansion was formally done through a lease agreement between Visa and SM Offices. The move reflects Visa’s continued growth in the Philippines and its need for a larger workplace.
SM Prime Vice President and Business Unit Head for SM Offices Alexis Ortiga stated that workplaces have become an important part of companies’ operations. He said that large companies are increasingly looking for bigger spaces that can bring more of their operations together while still allowing them to expand over time.
This move by Visa shows how multinational companies continue to look for premium office spaces in the Philippines that can support larger and more integrated operations.
The new office will allow Visa to put several important functions together instead of operating them across separate office spaces. With administrative, financial, and technology functions located together, the company can support its operations through one larger workplace.
Visa Continues Its Philippine Operations Growth
Visa also stated that the move to the new workplace was a natural step as the company continues to grow its business and support its employees in the Philippines.
Chari Dela Cruz, Vice President of Global Managed Services and Site Lead for the Visa Philippines Solution Center, stated that the company’s expansion to Four E-com Center is tied to its continued business growth and its goal of supporting its people.
Dela Cruz also highlighted the location of the E-com campus. She said the campus provides a strategic and well-connected location, along with accessibility and amenities that make it suitable for Visa’s growing team.
The move keeps Visa within the same E-com office campus while giving the company a significantly larger space. Instead of moving to a completely different business district, Visa will remain in the SM Mall of Asia Complex while expanding its workplace.
The new facility is also designed to provide a better environment for employees and visitors. Four E-com Center is a LEED Gold-certified premium office development designed by global architecture firm Arquitectonica.
The development has three distinctive crystalline towers with an all-glass façade. It also includes a fifth-level open-air sky garden, which provides an outdoor area for employees and guests.
These features are part of the workplace environment available to Visa employees at the new facility. The larger office is not only intended to provide additional space for the company’s operations but also to support the employee experience.
The facility’s 24/7 operating model is also important to Visa’s operations because its different administrative, financial, and technology functions will work within the same location. The bigger space gives the company room to accommodate its growing team while continuing its operations.
The E-com campus also gives Visa access to facilities and transportation connections around the SM Mall of Asia Complex. It is directly connected to SM Mall of Asia through an all-weather bridgeway, giving employees and visitors direct access between the office buildings and the mall.
The area is also close to Lanson Place, a premium hotel and serviced residence with meeting and event facilities. These nearby facilities add to the accessibility and amenities available to people working and visiting the E-com campus.
For Visa, remaining in the E-com campus means the company can expand its workplace while keeping its operations in the same general location.
What Visa’s Expansion Means for the Philippines
Visa’s expansion is also an example of the continued presence of multinational companies in the Philippines. The company is increasing its office footprint and bringing more of its functions into one larger facility.
The expansion of companies like Visa can also create a need for more employees and services to support their operations. These potential opportunities can cover different functions and industries and are not limited to technology or finance roles.
Companies with larger operations may also need employees in administration, human resources, customer support, operations, and other business functions.
According to the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), it approved 174 new and expansion projects from January to July 2026. These projects were valued at ₱151.901 billion and were projected to create 26,047 direct jobs.
These figures show that Visa’s expansion can be viewed alongside a broader trend of companies continuing to invest and expand their operations in the Philippines.
While the size and type of opportunities vary from one company to another, continued business expansion can contribute to a wider pool of potential employers and opportunities for Filipino workers.
This trend is also relevant to local financial technology companies such as DOPAY. As a fintech company involved in digital financial services, DOPAY operates in an environment where digital payments, electronic money, remittances, and virtual asset services continue to develop.
The presence and expansion of large international payments companies such as Visa can therefore be viewed alongside the development of local financial technology companies. While Visa and DOPAY have different businesses and services, both operate within the broader financial technology and digital payments ecosystem.
For DOPAY, developments in the digital payments industry can point to a growing environment where companies can develop and offer different financial services to customers. DOPAY’s services, including electronic money, remittance-related services, and virtual asset services, operate within this wider movement toward digital financial transactions.
The continued presence of international payments companies, together with the development of local fintech businesses, also shows how financial services in the Philippines are becoming increasingly connected to digital technology.
Visa’s expansion therefore provides more than an example of a multinational company increasing its office space. It also gives a view of the wider digital payments environment in which Philippine fintech companies operate.
For DOPAY, this development is relevant because the company operates in the regulated financial technology sector. As a BSP-licensed Electronic Money Issuer (EMI) and Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP), DOPAY can be positioned within the broader development of digital financial services in the Philippines. The BSP itself identifies EMIs as entities that facilitate the transfer or remittance of electronic money and VASPs as entities that facilitate the transfer or exchange of virtual assets.
DOPAY also provides digital financial services for Filipinos, including services related to remittances and virtual assets. Through its platform, OFWs can send money home while using a regulated digital financial service.
With DOPAY’s crypto wallet, users can also gain crypto rewards through the Trade & Earn program. Through the Refer & Earn program, Filipinos can also unlock earning possibilities through successful referrals.
As digital payments and financial technology continue to develop, companies such as Visa and DOPAY represent different parts of the broader digital financial ecosystem. Visa’s expansion shows the continued presence of a major international payments company in the Philippines, while DOPAY provides digital financial services to customers through its own platform.
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