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Hi Yoma Family, Due to the arises of cases in Myanmar, all Yoma employees are asked to take extra precautions and follow straightly the current Yoma Health Guidelines. If you display any Covid symptoms or believe you have been in contact with a positive case, promptly action as following: Stay Safe.

COVID-19 UPDATE: message from CCC. The MOHS has made an announcement of lockdown measures for some townships in Yangon. These lock down measures allow employees working for a company to attend work. Mandatory face mask wearing is required. Entities will be working on WFH measures however employees should be able to come to work as usual under these restrictions. Usual ferry services will be in place tomorrow. If you experience any difficulties coming to work you should contact your manager or AskHR.

*Remember to wear a mask, maintain social distance and wash/sanitize hands*

Health Guidelines for all Yoma Offices:

• Facemask wearing when social distancing of 6 feet cannot be observed
• Continued temperature screening of employees
• Reduced capacity in meeting rooms and canteen areas or places where employees gather
• WFH one day per week for roles that can
• Reduced capacity for employee ferry services
• Gatherings of over 20 people require prior approval from Head of Group HR/CEO
• Good hygiene practices : no handshaking, regular handwashing and sanitization
• All meeting rooms have disposable facemasks & hand sanitizer
• Do not come to work if you are unwell, even with mild symptoms of COVID-19

Mandatory facemask wearing

• Any time where social distancing of 6 feet cannot be maintained (including meeting rooms)
• On staff ferry’s
• In lifts
• Client/Customer facing

“A healthier you, a healthier community”, “Better health, better life” — You may have most probably come across some of these catchy slogans related to health insurance. For many of us, insurance is something we don’t think about until we need it; and sometimes it may be too late because when we actually do need it, we realise then that we don’t have the right insurance coverage.

Don’t panic too soon, though. As a permanent full-time staff of Yoma Group, we’ve got you covered (literally!) Yoma Group has a Medical Benefit Policy in place for all staff for a number of years.

• The Yoma Group Medical Plan: This plan provides inpatient, outpatient and life insurance coverage. What this means is that if you fall ill, get injured, or need to stay in hospital, your medical bills will be partially covered. We have recently reviewed our existing medical policy and have made changes to the benefit levels. Please refer to Yoma Connect for a comprehensive overview of the Group’s medical coverage.

• Additional COVID-19 coverage: We have extended our medical claim policy of our existing healthcare coverage and insurance to include additional COVID-19 coverage for outpatient, inpatient claims. If you are a frontline staff where your potential exposure to COVID-19 virus is likely to be higher – for example, YKKO, KFC, etc – you will have more coverage. 
  
   
• Pun Hlaing Siloam Hospital TeleMed Consultation (Viber): With heightened physical distancing measures, we have a “virtual care” programme where patients who are not well can dial a doctor from the safety of their own home. This allows those who feel unwell or non-emergency cases to avoid having to go to the hospital. We have this covered as well.

It feels good to be covered, but it feels better to stay healthy. Please refer to Yoma Connect (//52.220.87.101/) for more information on your health insurance and coverage, and if you have any questions, do email AskHR@yoma.com.mm

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုကဏ္ဍကို နည်းပညာမှတစ်ဆင့် ပုံဖော်ရာတွင် တစ်ဖက်တစ်လှမ်းမှ ပါဝင်ကူညီနိုင်မည်ကို Yoma Strategic မှ ယုံကြည်ပါသည်။ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ထိပ်တန်းမိုဘိုင်းဘဏ္ဍာရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုဖြစ်သည့် Wave Money ၏ အကြီးဆုံး အစုရှယ်ယာရှင်ဖြစ်လာမည်ကို ယနေ့မနက်တွင် ကြေညာခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထိုသို့ အကြီးဆုံးရှယ်ယာရှင်ဖြစ်လာခြင်းဖြင့် Wave Money နှင့် Yoma Group အကြား ပူးပါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှုကိုလည်း တိုးမြှင့်စေနိုင်မည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

“ယခုပြုလုပ်သည့် ရှယ်ယာဝယ်ယူမှုသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ပိုမိုတောင့်တင်းခိုင်မာသည့် ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနည်းပညာ ဂေဟစနစ်တည်ဆောက်ရန်ဟူသော ကျွန်တော်တို့၏ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်စေနိုင်မည့် လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်တစ်ခု ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ COVID-19 ကပ်ရောဂါကြောင့် ငွေသားမဲ့ငွေပေးချေခြင်းများ တိုးများလာသည်နှင့်အမျှ Wave Money ၏ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ကွန်ယက်နှင့် ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ်ငွေပေးချေမှု ပလက်ဖောင်းတို့မှာလည်း စဉ်ဆက်မပြတ်တိုးတက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ Ant Group ၏ ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုသည် Wave Money ကို ပိုမိုဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်လာစေနိုင်ပြီး ၎င်း၏ ရှယ်ယာရှင်များကိုည်း ရေရှည်တွင် အကျိုးအမြတ်များ ရရှိနိုင်စေမှာဖြစ်သည်” ဟု Yoma Strategic ၏ CEO ဖြစ်သူ Melvyn Pun မှ ပြောကြားပါသည်။

COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan သည် ငွေသားမဲ့ မိုဘိုင်းငွေပေးချေရေး ဝန်ဆောင်မှုများကို ပိုမိုအသုံးပြုလာအောင် မြှင့်တင်လျက်ရှိရာ ၎င်းမှာလည်း မြန်မာအစိုးရ၏ အဓိက ဦးစားပေးကိစ္စများအနက် တစ်ခုဖြစ်ပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ဘဏ္ဍာရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုကို လူတန်းစားအလွှာပေါင်းစုံမှ လက်လှမ်းမမှီနိုင်သေးသဖြင့် နိုင်ငံ၏ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနည်းပညာကဏ္ဍတွင် ဦးဆောင်သူတစ်ဦးအဖြစ် လုပ်ကိုင်သွားရန်ကို လုပ်ငန်းစုမှ စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားမိပါသည်။

Yoma Strategic believes in its role in helping to shape the financial services sector of Myanmar through technology. We’ve just announced our plans to take a controlling stake of Wave Money, the leading mobile financial services provider in Myanmar; a move that will also help Yoma Strategic forge greater collaboration between Wave Money and the Yoma Group’s businesses.

“This acquisition is part of our goal to build a strong financial technology ecosystem in Myanmar. Wave Money continues to see sustained growth in its agent and digital platforms, with Wave Pay gaining strong traction during the COVID-19 pandemic through the acceleration in and adoption of cashless payment solutions. The investment by Ant Group will further fuel Wave Money’s growth trajectory and will help to create a greater value for our shareholders in the longer term,” said Melvyn Pun, CEO, Yoma Strategic.

Myanmar Government’s COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan promotes the use of mobile payment services to accelerate the adoption of cashless solutions, and it is one of the government’s key priority. Given Myanmar’s financial inclusion gap, the Group is excited about the role it can play as a leading player in Myanmar’s Fintech industry.

Following Government announcement, all staffs in Yangon (other than those in essential services such as Yoma Bank/ Wave/ Hospital/ F&B/ Kospa) will be required to Work From Home. The Campus will be closed (but can be entered) and Ferry will not run. This will continue until further notice. Those in essential services will be contacted on work arrangement by your management team. The work arrangement is similar to our WFH plans in April. Please keep closely in touch with your teammates. We will send out further information as they emerge. Stay Safe!

Melvyn Pun
CEO, Yoma Strategic
Please take care!