To the Mastercard Neighborhood–
COVID-19 has turn into a part of our new actuality. At finest, we’re confronted with the brand new challenges of social isolation and determining use digital connections to remain shut with our household, mates and colleagues and to assist our kids proceed to study. At worst, we’re battling the virus instantly, in addition to the myriad problems that include it. Irrespective of the place you’re and what you’re dealing with, know that our hearts exit to you.
Even when the world is having fun with common well being and prosperity, there’s a must faucet into our fundamental human decency as we method our work and relationships. However proper now – when the world has needed to resort to excessive measures to sort out excessive circumstances – decency is much more vital. It’s what’s going to present us a preventing likelihood at quicker restoration and, finally, development on the opposite facet.
Proper now, when all of the well being and security steerage is asking us to basically alter the best way we work together with one another, the will to shut ranks and solely fear about our instant space of affect is understandably robust. However the want for companies to step up, attain past business-as-usual and activate new and maybe inventive methods to make use of their infrastructure and key abilities to maintain the economic system and society going – that’s even stronger.
Mastercard’s core functionality is enabling commerce. We’re going to maintain doing that in the present day, tomorrow and much into the longer term. However, we’re additionally going past commerce to help our numerous communities, as a result of that’s what we have to do with a purpose to navigate this disaster collectively.
Our Workforce:
Our staff make Mastercard what it’s in the present day. Their resiliency and inventive method to challenges of all types are what is going to see us via this era and assist us outline new methods to assist others. Their security and safety has all the time been and can proceed to be on the prime of our minds. We’ve initiated a number of short-term insurance policies based on steerage from regional authorities, worldwide well being organizations and our worker’s personal considerations and luxury ranges, together with working from residence, cut up working schedules, restricted or postponed journey, amongst others.
Our Companions and Shoppers:
We’re managing our enterprise, so we could be there for our companions in the present day and even stronger for them once we all come out the opposite facet. Our operations proceed as regular, supported by a resilient core infrastructure and complete enterprise continuity plans. Moreover, we proceed to faucet into our insights and capabilities to offer real-time responses and adaptableness to guard towards elevated cyber dangers and fraud threats, whereas additionally utilizing enhanced analytics and check & study capabilities to make sure our concepts and options are working as laborious as they’ll for our shoppers. The underside line: we’re right here for you, it doesn’t matter what this international occasion throws our approach.
Our Account and Cardholders:
Whether or not you’re ordering quarantine provides on-line in Vancouver or a shopkeeper attempting to maintain stocked in your personal prospects’ wants in Kampala, we’re sustaining our operations and community to help the methods folks must pay for issues nonetheless, every time, wherever and regardless of the circumstances. We’re right here to give you the protected, easy and seamless experiences you count on from us each different day.
Our Society:
In occasions like these, all efforts matter and we are going to proceed to search for methods to assist – huge and small. We’re partnering with The Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis and Wellcome Belief to speed up the event and entry to therapy for COVID-19. Collectively, we now have dedicated as much as $125 million in funding to speed-up the identification, evaluation, growth, and scaling of remedies. We invite you to be a part of our effort to discover a answer to this unprecedented state of affairs by giving to the Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator Fund. We’re additionally persevering with to match worker donations to reduction efforts and have contributed to funds just like the China Girls’s Improvement Basis to help the preliminary efforts in Wuhan. By our partnership with Scholastic, we’re making our Girls4Tech on-line curriculum for grades 3 – 7 out there to anybody who needs to obtain it. And, most just lately, we now have donated 25,000 respirator masks to NYC hospitals.
At Mastercard, our focus has all the time been on serving to to construct a extra related world, and in in the present day’s surroundings, that is extra vital than ever. We stay dedicated to that trigger and are transferring ahead in a approach that helps human security and international efforts for sustainability now and restoration sooner or later. We’re on this with every one in every of you for the lengthy haul and I’m assured that, so long as we preserve plugging in to our fundamental human decency, we are going to emerge from this and discover new strengths and development we by no means imagined.
Sincerely,
Ajay Banga
