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Sardine names Meta Muse and ChatGPT agents via BotName for merchants

Is that Meta’s Muse AI or a fraudster? How to tell the difference ↗

What happened

• Sardine says it now names the agent behind a session, starting with Meta's Muse and ChatGPT.
• Sardine states BotName is currently available to all merchants, with BotType coming soon.
• Sardine says Muse-style agents that run a real browser are identified through behavioral and infrastructure signals rather than declared identity.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine positions agent identification as a fraud-policy control for merchants, a narrative that overlaps Signicat's document and authentication-facing fraud offerings but is not a Nordic or Benelux eID or wallet move.
• Per-agent naming is vendor-stated and its confidence varies by agent, so detection accuracy is uncorroborated.

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Sardine integrated Jev as an automated judgment node in its Sardine Flow workflow builder and is integrating it with Web360 for structured KYB decisions.

We put TypeSafe AI's Jev to work on three fraud problems ↗

What happened

• Sardine reports developing a name-and-email mismatch feature powered by Jev and plans to expose it to client rule engines.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine is embedding sub-100ms SLM/LLM decision nodes into its orchestration flow, raising the technical benchmark for orchestration engines and automated KYB screening.
• Direct integration of automated AI reasoning into live payment and onboarding flows bypasses human analyst bottlenecks in KYB and fraud checks.

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Sardine benchmarks 165 community bank and credit union fraud leaders

6 takeaways from our Community Bank & Credit Union benchmarking report ↗

What happened

• Sardine surveyed 165 fraud leaders at community banks, regional banks, and credit unions about losses, staffing, technology, reporting, and budget.
• Respondents reported a median fraud loss of $2M in 2025.
• 67.7% of respondents named scams as one of their most pressing fraud threats.
• 84% of respondents said they are satisfied with their fraud technology.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine's survey content targets US community banks and credit unions, outside Signicat's core markets (Nordics, Benelux, DACH, Iberia, UK).

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Sardine published its September 2026 product updates, describing three new platform launches: Sardine Flow, Agent Hub, and Scheduled Agent Tasks.

Sardine Product Updates: September 2026 ↗

What happened

• Sardine states Sardine Flow is live in production, with support expanding across more use cases.
• Sardine states Agent Hub and its core agents are live now, with availability expanding across regions and environments.
• Sardine states it can detect Meta Muse traffic and elevate session bot risk level via its Device Intelligence and Behavioral Biometrics SDK.
• Sardine states blocklist screening now extends to counterparty bank account numbers, IBANs and sort codes.
• Sardine states it keeps LLM requests from its AI features in the same region as production across Australia, Canada and the European Union.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine's release targets orchestration of fraud, compliance and AI agents in one workflow tool, overlapping Signicat's trust orchestration and risk and AML screening lines.
• The Swiss goAML and UK NCA SAR pre-fill items are compliance filing features; relevance to Signicat's AML screening line is moderate.

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Sardine launched Sardine AI Labs, an applied research group focused on fraud and financial crime AI.

Sardine Launches Dedicated AI Research Lab and $375,000 in Research Fellowships to Advance Fraud and Financial Crime Prevention ↗

What happened

• Sardine opened applications for up to five research fellowships for independent researchers.
• Sardine reports its card foundation model improved fraud detection accuracy by 68% for a consumer card issuer and 41% for a business card issuer versus standard machine-learning approaches, in testing with issuers excluded from training.
• The card model was trained on about one billion transactions over two years from over a dozen card issuers.
• Applications for the AI Fellowship Program close December 13, 2026, with the inaugural fellows announced mid-January 2027.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine's ReadID-adjacent fraud claims are not relevant to Signicat's core eID brokering; the card model targets transaction fraud, a different workflow from Signicat's identity-verification and authentication lines.
• The announcement is a research and talent program with vendor-reported accuracy gains; no independent validation or customer deployment is stated, so the impact on Signicat's competitive position is low-to-moderate.

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Sardine introduces Scheduled Agent Tasks, letting users schedule any Sardine AI agent to run on its own cadence and deliver findings to the team.

Your AI agents shouldn't need someone to hit go ↗

What happened

• Findings are delivered to a notification inbox prioritized by severity, and users can open a chat with the agent for follow-up.
• Sardine states that higher-risk findings can be routed for mandatory human review rather than acted on automatically.
• Sardine states that Agent Routines and the underlying harness are live today across Sardine's AI agents.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Scheduled unattended agents for fraud and compliance monitoring are a feature-level addition to Sardine's agent platform, relevant to Signicat's orchestration and risk-screening lines.
• The post contains no Signicat-relevant eID, wallet, or EUDI content; relevance to Signicat's core identity-brokering and wallet priorities is low.

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Sardine Partners with Notabene for Crypto Travel Rule and Transaction Authorization

Sardine Partners with Notabene to Bring Travel Rule Compliance and Transaction Authorization into Crypto Risk Platform ↗

What happened

• Sardine announced a partnership with Notabene to integrate crypto Travel Rule compliance and transaction authorization into its platform alongside fraud, KYC, KYB, and AML screening.
• The integration connects Sardine to Notabene's counterparty verification network for real-time transaction authorization across crypto and stablecoin transfers.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Signicat offers risk and AML screening; competitor orchestration platforms are expanding into crypto-specific compliance such as the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR).
• The integration reinforces Sardine's unified platform narrative for fintechs and financial institutions handling fiat and crypto transactions.

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Sardine launched Agent Hub, a dashboard surface where teams chat with, run, schedule and evaluate Sardine AI agents.

Introducing Agent Hub: One AI command center for all your agents ↗

What happened

• Agent Hub includes seven agents: Rule Assistant, Data Analyst, Doc KYC, OSINT Search, Graph Analyst, Business Due Diligence and Compliance Screening.
• More than 450 customers have access to Sardine AI agents, with adoption up 2.5x since January, according to Sardine.
• In one bank deployment, agent decisions matched sampled human reviews 99.9% of the time, per Sardine; the claim is uncorroborated.
• Agents are live in Sardine's Canadian environment and in FIS environments used by bank customers.
• Build-your-own agents, customer tool and data integration via MCP, and Sardine Flow orchestration are announced as roadmap items.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Agent Hub is a product-level move toward agentic investigation inside fraud and compliance stacks, a category Signicat's risk and AML screening line may meet in bids.
• Sardine's roadmap pairs agent orchestration with Flow, a platform-coherence narrative relevant to the orchestration theme; the article does not address Signicat.

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Sardine introduced Sardine Flow as a visual workflow orchestration platform for fraud and compliance processes.

Introducing Sardine Flow: Connect data, APIs, and Agents to automate workflows without code ↗

What happened

• The post states Flow is live in production today.
• The post states one neobank customer uses Flow in production to automate false-positive allowlisting every 15 minutes.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Flow competes with orchestration offerings by combining rules, AI agents and human review in one workflow, a direct overlap with Signicat's orchestration and risk and AML screening lines.
• Sardine's post frames general-purpose automation tools as unsuited to fraud workflows, which is a positioning claim by the vendor, not independently verified.

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Sardine says it trained a model on card transactions to predict the next transaction, then added its embeddings as features to its production issuing fraud model.

We trained a foundation model on spending and it caught 35% more fraud ↗

What happened

• Sardine reports the model caught 24% to 35% more fraud than before at the same share of transactions flagged for high risk.
• Sardine reports a 28% improvement at a common operating point flagging the riskiest 1% of transactions.
• Sardine reports a 68% improvement in AUC-PR.
• Sardine reports the embeddings improved a held-out client's issuing model by 29%.
• Sardine states the first version performed worse than its existing model and required substantial tuning.
• Sardine says the model is being productionized and is not yet deployed in a live regulated environment.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine's claim targets issuing fraud, a use case adjacent to Signicat's risk and AML screening line, but the article does not address identity verification or onboarding.
• Sardine itself says onboarding has no sequence to read and the approach would likely underperform on e-commerce, limiting direct overlap with Signicat's onboarding-focused identity products.

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Sardine reports that a six-month sanctions screening automation with one bank client reached 99.9 percent agreement between AI and human reviewers, with human oversight reduced from 100 percent to about 10 percent.

Welcome to the Agentic Frontier ↗

What happened

• Sardine reports that more than 300 clients have adopted its AI agents, a 2.5x increase since January.
• Sardine reports Universal KYC, which is now in beta, remembers completed KYC per device to skip repeat verification.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine's device-binding and agentic sanctions-automation messaging overlaps Signicat's authentication and AML screening lines; treat as competitive positioning, not verified outcomes.

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Sardine launched a FinCEN 314(a) Screening Hub allowing direct list uploads, matching against aliases and transaction counterparties, and audit logging.

Sardine Product Updates: July 2026 ↗

What happened

• Sardine expanded its batch crypto screening coverage from 48 to 126 blockchain networks to achieve parity with its real-time API.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The release is heavily focused on US regulatory requirements such as FinCEN 314(a), posing limited direct threat to Signicat's European core markets.

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FinCEN released updated Section 314(b) guidance on June 12, replacing the agency's 2020 fact sheet.

The FinCEN 314(b) update: Fraud teams really can share more now ↗

What happened

• The updated guidance makes fraud offenses specified unlawful activities, so information sharing can cover suspected fraud without a money laundering connection.
• Reasonable suspicion is the threshold for 314(b) sharing under the updated guidance, not proof or a filed SAR.
• Associations of financial institutions can participate under 314(b).
• The FDIC, OCC, and Federal Reserve issued follow-up guidance in the weeks after FinCEN's release.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Expands the US fraud-sharing use case for identity-verification and fraud vendors whose customers are US financial institutions; Signicat's core markets are Europe, so direct relevance is limited.
• Content is a vendor thought-leadership piece that promotes consortium-based sharing; it does not name Signicat.

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Sardine and Infinite announce two-way compliance, risk and payments integration

Infinite and Sardine launch two-way integration linking compliance, risk, and payments ↗

What happened

• Sardine and Infinite announced a two-way integration combining Sardine's real-time fraud and risk intelligence with Infinite's AI-powered compliance platform and account infrastructure.
• Infinite now incorporates Sardine's device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and transaction risk data into its compliance workflows.
• Infinite Accounts are brought into Sardine's payments platform to give customers access to an account layer supporting fund movement.
• Infinite and Sardine plan to expand the integration over time into onboarding, transaction monitoring, compliance automation and payments infrastructure.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The announcement is a partner-to-partner integration between a fraud platform and a stablecoin compliance vendor, with no Nordic, Benelux, eID or EUDI component stated in the article.
• Bundling of risk signals with account infrastructure and payments is adjacent to Signicat's risk and AML screening and orchestration lines, and is a stablecoin-focused rather than identity-focused offer.

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Sardine published a product update post listing eight releases for June 2026.

Sardine Product Updates: June 2026 ↗

What happened

• Sardine's Access Control Server is EMVCo 3DS 2.x certified, per Sardine.
• The Screening Configurations tab lets teams route AML screening by IBAN country, flow type and domestic versus cross-border status without an engineering release.
• Alert checklists make required investigation steps mandatory, blocking alert resolution until complete.
• Business CDD brings corporate due diligence into the existing Sardine compliance dashboard.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine's ACS certification claim targets card-issuer 3DS authentication, a area outside Signicat's listed product lines, so direct overlap appears limited.

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Sardine partners with Modern Treasury on real-time payment fraud monitoring

Modern Treasury partners with Sardine to help businesses detect fraud earlier and reduce risk at scale ↗

What happened

• Modern Treasury and Sardine announced a partnership to enhance transaction monitoring and fraud prevention for businesses moving money.
• The partnership integrates Sardine's real-time monitoring and risk infrastructure into Modern Treasury's platform.
• Modern Treasury customers can use built-in real-time fraud monitoring without additional integrations.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine is positioning transaction monitoring as embedded in a payments platform rather than sold as a standalone fraud product; this is a partner-channel move in the payments space, adjacent to Signicat's risk and AML screening line.

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Sardine announced configurable Business Details headers that arrange up to 12 attributes and allow layouts to be published as org-wide defaults.

Sardine Product Updates: May 2026 ↗

What happened

• Sardine says the Device Intelligence page now supports up to three configurable charts in line, bar, and column formats.
• Sardine says a single API call can screen the sender, sender's bank, receiver, and receiver's bank, plus the transaction memo, for wire transactions.
• Sardine says screening widgets now support bulk selection, with one comment applied to every entity in a batch across sanctions, PEP and adverse media watchlists.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine's multi-party wire AML screening targets AML/KYB screening workflows that overlap Signicat's risk and AML screening line.
• Batch resolution of screening matches is an operational feature in the AML screening category, not a shift in Signicat's core market position.

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Sardine signs National Bank of Canada; $25M series-C extension led by bank

National Bank of Canada partners with Sardine to strengthen digital banking security and fraud operations efficiency ↗

What happened

• Sardine announced a multi-year partnership with National Bank of Canada.
• Under the agreement, the bank will deploy Sardine's device intelligence and real-time risk scoring across retail, commercial, and wealth solutions.
• National Bank of Canada leads a $25M series-C extension round in Sardine, bringing total funding to $170 million.
• The selection followed a live evaluation in which Sardine improved fraud detection and reduced false positives, per Sardine's release.

Why it matters to Signicat

• A $25M round is below the €20M threshold in money terms but is a funding event with a bank strategic investor; the bank-led round is a competitive financing signal.
• Sardine is winning Tier-1-style Canadian bank business in device intelligence and risk scoring, a fraud-side scope that overlaps Signicat's document and risk offerings only partially.

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Anthropic released a KYC screener as part of a finance-agents release.

Anthropic released a KYC agent: Here’s what it actually is, and who should use it ↗

What happened

• The post describes the Anthropic template as a four-step workflow with doc-reader, rules engine, screening step and escalator.
• The post says the template is deployable as an analyst-side plugin in Microsoft Office or as a server-side Managed Agent.
• The post states that the template ships with no document forensics, liveness, device intelligence, KYB or case management UI.
• The post claims the Sardine Doc KYC Agent offers 88% auto-resolution, which the post labels as claimed.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine frames general-purpose AI KYC agents as a reasoning layer needing vertical tooling, a positioning Signicat's document IDV and orchestration offerings could be compared against.

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Sardine ships alert escalations, SAR drafts and user-level data permissions

Sardine Product Updates: April 2026 ↗

What happened

• Sardine announced product updates in April: alert review escalations, activity report drafts, a home page with embedded analytics, and granular access controls.
• Alert escalations let an analyst move an In Progress alert to a linked queue, assign a reviewer, and leave comments.
• Activity report drafts allow saving SARs in progress and resuming them from a Draft Reports tab, with final submission still requiring all mandatory fields.
• User-level data access permissions can restrict a user's view by partner ID, flow name, or a custom segmentation field within a single organization.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Feature set targets AML/fraud operations workflows (alert triage, SAR filing, access scoping) rather than Signicat's core identity product lines; direct overlap is limited to risk and AML screening.

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Sardine partners with Modulr for real-time fraud and AML screening

Sardine partners with Modulr to bring real-time, AI-enabled fraud detection to automated payments ↗

What happened

• Sardine and Modulr announced a partnership under which Sardine supports Modulr with integrated fraud and AML solutions.
• The integration is embedded in Modulr's Risk & Compliance Hub and covers card and real-time payment rails.
• Sardine states it protects over $1T in transaction volume and operates a fraud data consortium spanning more than 5.5 billion devices.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Payments-platform embedding of fraud and AML screening is a competitive pattern in Signicat's risk and AML screening line; the partnership is a payments-side, not identity-proofing, win for Sardine.
• Vendor-stated consortium and volume figures are unverified marketing claims and should be attributed to Sardine.

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Real estate agents, buyers' agents, brokers and property developers dealing directly with purchasers will be classified as AML/CTF reporting entities from 1 July 2026.

Australia's Tranche 2 AML reforms: What real estate businesses need to know ↗

What happened

• AUSTRAC enrollment opens 31 March 2026 with a deadline of 28 April 2026.
• Approximately 70,000 additional businesses will be brought under the AML/CTF Act when provisions commence on 1 July 2026.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Article is a regulatory explainer that positions Sardine's AML screening, KYB and SAR tooling for a new Australian real estate segment; Signicat's core markets do not include Australia.
• Signicat's Risk and AML screening line overlaps with the sanctions, PEP, KYB and transaction monitoring capabilities Sardine lists.

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Sardine says it now verifies Tax IDs electronically across approximately 20 countries.

Sardine Product Updates: March 2026 ↗

What happened

• Sardine says counterparties can be monitored continuously after submission, with alerts generated only when sanctions status changes or new data becomes available.
• Sardine says alert trigger history surfaces every transaction tied to an open alert, including timestamps, session keys, transaction IDs and triggering rules.
• Sardine says it now offers a dedicated Business Credit page for U.S. onboarding.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Tax ID verification across ~20 countries is a KYB coverage claim by the vendor; no independent validation in the source.

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Sardine states that most AI agent conversations are now private to the individual user, while Alerts-page conversations remain team-visible.

Sardine Product Updates: February 2026 ↗

What happened

• Sardine states analysts can resolve Sanctions, PEP and Adverse Media signals independently, with overall entity status calculated from those decisions.
• Sardine launches a Customer Profiles page offering a searchable view of customer records.
• Sardine lists SardineQL as a preview offering read-only SQL access to user, session and transaction data.
• Sardine adds CIDR notation and IPv6 support for dashboard IP allowlisting.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Release is operational feature work for fraud and compliance teams; no Nordic/Benelux eID brokering, EUDI wallet or document-verification content appears, so direct overlap with Signicat's watched priorities is assessed as low.

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Sardine published a blog article listing seven AI-driven attack vectors it says it has observed producing losses across its partner network.

7 AI-driven fraud vectors and agentic attacks we’re watching closely in 2026 ↗

What happened

• The article describes a shift from "fraud-at-scale" to "fraud-with-agency" that it says it observed over the last 12-18 months.
• The article describes a hybrid deepfake attack that routes high-fidelity deepfake output through a hardware device presenting itself as a mobile phone camera.

Why it matters to Signicat

• The deepfake section argues liveness checks alone are insufficient and points to stream and session-consistency checks, which overlaps Signicat's document IDV and NFC verification positioning.
• The Ghost Touch section frames biometric login as not proving intent, relevant to Signicat's authentication product line.

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The article is a blog playbook by Sardine that translates its Agentic Oversight Framework into supervision-ready components for banks.

Deploying Agentic AI in banking: A playbook for reducing regulatory risk and ensuring audit readiness ↗

What happened

• The playbook sets three agent risk tiers and tiered validation and oversight requirements.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Content is governance guidance for AI agents in banks; it does not reference Signicat's product lines (eID, signing, verification) directly.

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Sardine says its Sanctions Agent can execute alert decisions based on pre-configured dashboard settings.

Sardine Product Updates: January 2026 ↗

What happened

• Sardine added a self-service Webhooks page with endpoint configuration, delivery health monitoring and Manual Replay.
• Sardine added Alert SLAs that set review windows for any queue, with remaining time shown on Alert Details pages.

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The article announces a live webinar on February 11 with a FIS speaker.

What Nacha’s new ACH fraud monitoring rule actually means for community banks and credit unions ↗

What happened

• The article states that Phase 1 of the rule applies to ODFIs starting March 20, 2026.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Sardine content is educational thought leadership on ACH fraud monitoring for community FIs, a segment outside Signicat's core Nordic, Benelux, DACH, Iberia and UK focus.
• Low direct competitive threat; the piece does not name Signicat or describe Sardine products beyond a webinar invitation.

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Sardine announced Job Application Fraud Detection, integrating directly with applicant tracking systems using webhooks to assess risk as applications are submitted.

Job Application Fraud Detection: Stop fake job applicants before they get inside ↗

What happened

• Sardine says it ran its Data Analyst AI Agent on its own incoming applications over one month and reports 88.6% high-risk rate for Backend (Go) Europe/UK roles.
• Sardine reports that IP vs. claimed country mismatch triggered 2,416 cases (76%) among more than 3,000 high-risk applications in the period.
• Sardine extends detection into live interviews through a custom Sardine interview link that runs during video calls.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Signicat's document IDV and biometrics offering does not cover applicant-stage hiring fraud as described here; the launch extends Sardine's fraud stack into HR, a new buyer segment.
• Live-interview deepfake and injected-camera detection overlaps with Signicat's NFC and injection-attack watch area; the claim is vendor-reported and unverified.

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Sardine describes Visitor Fingerprint as a persistent identifier that adds location, network context and stability features to device fingerprinting.

Visitor Fingerprint: Improving accuracy beyond device fingerprinting ↗

What happened

• Sardine pairs each Visitor Fingerprint with a Confidence Score.
• Sardine reports, from its own real-world testing, reductions of up to 97% in collision rates and up to 95% in division rates versus legacy approaches.
• Sardine publishes a sample rule using Confidence ≥ 70 and device and user thresholds for coordinated-abuse detection.

Why it matters to Signicat

• Feature-level claim in device-intelligence and fraud-ring detection; relevant to Signicat's risk and AML screening line but no direct eID or wallet overlap.
• The reported improvement figures are vendor-internal and lack stated sample size, test conditions or methodology, so they should be treated as unverified.

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