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## Open Risk White Paper Collection (Mirror)

Open Risk is occasionally publishing White Papers covering a range of topics around risk management and sustainable finance, both conceptual and technical (quantitative / development issues).

This repository is a **mirror** of the [Open Risk White Paper Collection](https://www.openriskmanagement.com/open-risk-white-papers/)

* We welcome external collaborators who are interested in the areas where Open Risk is active.
* We welcome discussion / comments or other suggestions at the [dedicated Open Risk Commons area](https://www.openriskcommons.org/c/white-papers/20) or, if you prefer, on our [reddit sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/open_risk/) or on [mastodon](https://mastodon.social/deck/@openrisk).

### Open Risk White Paper 19: _Connecting the Dots: Accounting Graphs for Double and Quadruple-Entry Bookkeeping_

[OpenRiskWP19_111125](OpenRiskWP19_111125.pdf)

We develop the concept of an accounting graph as an intuitive and flexible tool that can faithfully represent widely used accounting concepts. More specifically, a weighted directed multigraph representation is applied to model standard double-entry bookkeeping (DEB) of individual accounting entities but extended to also provide a consistent accounting graph for larger economic networks that feature multiple transacting entities (so-called quadruple-entry accounting). We illustrate the concepts with stylized accounting examples. Such accounting graphs are promising both as educational tools and towards the application of computational tools on accounting data.

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### Open Risk White Paper 18: _Sustainable Public Procurement. Part II: Making Use Of Environmentally Extended Input-Output Data_

[OpenRiskWP18_290925](OpenRiskWP18_290925.pdf)

Adopting Open Data and Open Source tools can be a catalyst in the sustainability transition and Green Public Procurement (GPP) is a particularly opportune domain to explore this potential. In the first paper in this series we outlined key information flows and tasks that are relevant in this context. Here we dive deeper into how one can leverage a particularly promising source of economic and environmental impact information: Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) databases. We will discuss some of the challenges that must be addressed to effectively use EEIO tools in GPP, especially in European context. The use cases in focus are: how to produce an overall inventory of direct and indirect emissions for different procurement categories, and how to differentiate between green and non-green products. Some practical problems that must be tackled are: the consistent linkage of procurement data sets to EEIO databases, and the disaggregation of EEIO sectors to more granular of green / non-green products. We discuss potential approaches and their pros and cons. We analyze the specific challenge of creating a CPV-NACE mapping that would link demand driven procurement product taxonomies with supply driven economic activity classifications. We outline a methodology for disaggregating EEIO business sectors to constituent product categories with differentiated environmental impact while preserving the accounting constraints satisfied by the aggregate databases.

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### Open Risk White Paper 17: _Sustainable Public Procurement. Part I: Emissions Attribution_

[OpenRiskWP17_040425](OpenRiskWP17_040425.pdf)

Public Procurement represents a major opportunity to catalyze the transition of economies towards more sustainable patterns but faces important challenges. We review mechanisms that can help address key pain points through the use of open standards, open data and open source tools. In the first part we frame the overall task of Sustainable Public Procurement as an instance of portfolio management. We outline three distinct information processing pillars that are relevant in this context. We focus here on the task of measuring and attributing greenhouse gas emissions to an existing procurement portfolio.

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### Open Risk White Paper 16: _Follow the Money: Random Walks on Supply and Use Graphs_

[OpenRiskWP16_161224](OpenRiskWP16_161224.pdf)

We explore how to organize Environmentally-Extended Input-Output frameworks (EEIO), and in particular their Supply and Use Table (SUT) formulation, as graphs. Working directly with SUT systems instead of converting to symmetric IO matrices involves fewer assumptions and (in principle) higher resolution in expressing environmental impacts. We elaborate first on the representation of SUT tables as directed, weighted bipartite graphs. We discuss both closed (circular) and open system configurations, featuring source and sink nodes. These are modeled as regular and absorbing Markov Chains respectively. We outline a probabilistic random walk framework that realizes mathematically the colloquial Follow the Money concept. This enables computing a range of various existing and new metrics using the EEIO data. As an illustration, besides the standard environmental footprint metric, we introduce the concept of footprint variance or the intrinsic variability of estimates. We illustrate the overall setup using a classic numerical example from the EEIO literature.

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### Open Risk White Paper 15: _Connecting the Dots: Tensor Representations of ActivityPub Networks_

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fediverse.png" width="350" />][30]

([OpenRiskWP15_020224][29])

In this third Open Risk White Paper on _Connecting the Dots_ we explore representations of online communication networks that are organized according to the ActivityPub protocol. We discuss the main relevant features of the protocol and the broader application ecosystem around it that shapes emerging online network topologies. We develop a stylized description of ActivityPub compliant networks as a mathematical multilayer network. Tensor representations of such complex graphs generalize the more familiar matrix algebra tools and can be useful in various ways: On the one hand they help empirical work in analyzing
the characteristics of such networks, on the other they enable simulating and exploring network behavior.

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### Open Risk White Paper 14: _energyLedger: Integrated energy accounting using relational databases_

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/energyLedger.png" width="350" />][28]

([OpenRiskWP14_190523][27])

In this Open Risk White Paper we demonstrate a concrete implementation of an integrated energy accounting framework using relational database technologies. The framework enables accounting of non-financial disclosures (such as the physical and embodied energy footprints of economic transactions) while enforcing the familiar double-entry balance constraints used to produce conventional (monetary) accounts and financial statements. In addition, it allows enforcing constraints associated with the flow and transformations of energy that can happen inside the organizational perimeter. We establish the conceptual relation of such an approach with the currently developing European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and emissions attributions standards such as PCAF. A simplified sequence capturing transactions of a fictional venture helps illustrate how this type of accounting might work in practice. We also document the details of an open source relational database implementation of the concepts.

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### Open Risk White Paper 13: _Federated Credit Systems, Part II: Techniques for Federated Data Analysis_

([OpenRiskWP13_200323][25])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/federated_models.png" width="350" />][26]

In this Open Risk White Paper, the second of series focusing on Federated Credit Systems, we explore techniques for federated credit data analysis. Building on the first paper where we outlined the overall architecture, essential actors and information flows underlying various business models of credit provision, in this step we focus on the enabling arrangements and techniques for building Federated Credit Data Systems and enabling Federated Analysis. We start with a brief and non-technical description on privacy-preserving technologies, focusing on the special role of federated analysis within the spectrum of cryptographic approaches to multi-party computation. We then discuss generative processes of credit data that both motivate federated analysis uses cases and shape its specific characteristics in the context of the financial sector. We proceed to define the concept of a federated credit data system, with the federated master data table as an iconic outcome. Building on that layout we sketch how generic algorithms might be structured in a federated analysis context, giving examples from concentration risk analysis. We conclude with thoughts on the potential challenges to realize and benefit from federated systems in finance.

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### Open Risk White Paper 12: _Deep-Linking Financial and Energy Accounting_

([OpenRiskWP12_230922][23])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Accounting_Balance.png" width="350" />][24]

We develop a conceptual framework for integrated accounting that produces (where possible) non-financial disclosures subject to the same double-entry balance constraints as those used to produce conventional financial statements and automatically ensures any additional conservation laws are satisfied. We identify the key ingredients required for such a rigorous integrated accounting framework, in terms of concepts, postulates and design choices. Our focus and concrete use case is built around energy accounting, keeping track on an entity’s detailed energy footprint (primary inputs, transformations and waste generation) as an extension of its standard financial accounting and reporting. The central tool is the use of multi-dimensional double-entry bookkeeping which tracks quantitative information characterizing economic objects beyond their monetary values. This choice ensures the enforcement of both classic balance constraints and any applicable energy conservation laws. Further tools and techniques concern the aggregation and reporting of dual (monetary and physical) dimensions of an entity’s accounting state. The framework is documented using mathematical notation.

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### Open Risk White Paper 11: _Sustainable Portfolio Management: Attribution and Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions_

([OpenRiskWP11_021221][21])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Planetary-Boundaries.png" width="350" />][22]

We develop an analytic framework that synthesizes current approaches to sustainable portfolio management in the context of addressing climate change. We discuss the different required information layers, approaches to emissions accounting, attribution and forward-looking limit frameworks implementing carbon budget constraints. The focus is on identifying the necessary ingredients for a coherent representation, recognizing that practical implementations require a large amount of specific detail.

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### Open Risk White Paper 10: _Connecting the Dots: Concentration, diversity, inequality and sparsity in economic networks_

([OpenRiskWP10_300621][19])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/spatial_network.png" width="350" />][20]

In this second Open Risk White Paper on Connecting the Dots we examine measures of concentration, diversity, inequality and sparsity in the context of economic systems represented as network (graph) structures. We adopt a stylized description of economies as property graphs and illustrate how relevant concepts can represented in this language. We explore in some detail data types representing economic network data and their statistical nature which is critical in their use in concentration analysis. We proceed to recast various known indexes drawn from distinct disciplines in a unified computational context.

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### Open Risk White Paper 9: _Federated Credit Systems, Part I: Unbundling The Credit Provision Business Model_
  
([OpenRiskWP09_301020][16])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bank_unbundled.png" width="350" />][17]

In this (the first of series of three) white paper, we introduce and explore the concept of federated credit systems. We review the rapidly developing fields of Federated Analysis and Federated Learning as already actively studied in the domains of medicine and consumer computing devices. This forms the backdrop for understanding the potential and challenges of applying similar concepts in finance and more particular credit provision. The context of modern banking is substantially different from the above mentioned use cases. Understanding and shaping federated information systems to cater to its unique features and constraints (key added value, competitive landscape, regulatory frameworks) will help accelerate the adoption of new designs. Towards that purpose we construct a framework that conceptually unbundles the complex operation that is modern credit provision. We introduce a number of fundamental business entities (sub-units) and their associated functions and discuss the underlying business models. We discuss, in particular, how and why they exchange data and metrics and the key risk management challenges of each. Finally, we sketch current architectures for credit information sharing with an overture to the new possibilities opening up with federation architectures.

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### Open Risk White Paper 8: _Connecting the Dots: Economic Networks as Property Graphs_
  
([OpenRiskWP08_131219][1])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/econ_network.png" alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3416" width="300" srcset="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/econ_network.png 524w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/econ_network-300x295.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px" />][2]

We develop a quantitative framework that approaches economic networks from the point of view of contractual relationships between agents (and the interdependencies those generate). The representation of agent properties, transactions and contracts is done in the context of a property graph. A typical use case for the proposed framework is the study of credit networks.

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### Open Risk White Paper 7: _Risk Capital for Non-Performing Loans_

([OpenRiskWP07_022616][3])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/npl_plot-300x166.png" alt="Risk capital for non-performing loans" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2116" width="300" height="166" srcset="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/npl_plot-300x166.png 300w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/npl_plot-768x424.png 768w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/npl_plot.png 856w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />][4]

We develop a conceptual framework for risk capital calculation for portfolios of non-performing loans. In general banking practice, loans that pass a threshold of delinquency are declared non-performing and are provisioned. Yet there is a residual risk that the provisioning is not sufficient. This risk must be covered by capital buffers. The literature for risk capital requirements for NPL portfolios is very limited, which implies that Stress Testing and Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment (ICAAP) requirements for non-performing loans are harder to meet. Our framework builds on tools used in portfolio credit risk modeling and provides a structured approach to address the risk profile that is specific to non-performing loans.

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### Open Risk White Paper 6: _Stress Testing Methodology for FX Lending_

([OpenRiskWP06_012116][5])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FX_volatility-300x225.png" alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1901" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FX_volatility-300x225.png 300w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FX_volatility-768x576.png 768w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FX_volatility.png 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />][6]

We develop a simple methodology for stress testing portfolios of credit instruments classified as _foreign exchange lending_. Loans whose repayment schedule is denominated in a currency other that that of the borrower’s domestic currency are commonly seen in many jurisdictions and have a risk profile that is considerably more complicated than domestic currency loans. Yet the literature for credit risk assessment and stress testing of portfolios of such loans is very limited, which means that _Stress Testing and Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment (ICAAP)_ requirements are harder to meet. Our methodology builds on existing standard tools used in portfolio credit risk modeling and enables obtaining insights into the additional risk factors embedded in foreign currency lending.

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### Open Risk White Paper 5: _Identification Framework for Business Model Risks_

([OpenRiskWP05_010916][7])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bmc-300x202.png" alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-1858" width="300" height="202" srcset="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bmc-300x202.png 300w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bmc.png 664w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />][8]<figcaption id="caption-attachment-1858" class="wp-caption-text">The Business Model Canvas</figcaption></figure>

We develop an analytical framework for the systematic _identification_ of business model risks. The framework utilizes as a starting point a simplified business model schema known as the Business Model Canvas. We review each one of the elements of the schema in turn, identifying the main risk characteristics associated with each.

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### Open Risk White Paper 4: _Open Risk Model Taxonomy_

([OpenRiskWP04_061415][9])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/turing-300x154.png" alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1614" width="300" height="154" srcset="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/turing-300x154.png 300w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/turing-1024x526.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />][10]

We develop a taxonomy for risk models that aims to support an open source risk models framework. The proposal builds on and extends some commonly used risk taxonomies within financial services firms but introduces some significant new elements.

We first review the motivation for risk taxonomies, the concepts and tools that are involved and some of the weaknesses of current schemes. We try also to clarify the link between risk models and risk taxonomies.

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### Open Risk White Paper 3: _Introducing the Open Risk API_

([OpenRiskWP03_053115][11])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/linked_models-300x200.png" alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1952" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/linked_models-300x200.png 300w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/linked_models-768x512.png 768w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/linked_models.png 963w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />][12]

We develop a proposal for an open source application programming interface (API) that allows for the distributed development, deployment and use of financial risk models. The proposal aims to explore the following key question: how to integrate in a robust and trustworthy manner diverse risk modeling and risk data resources, contributed by multiple authors, using different technologies, and which very likely will evolve over time.

The proposal builds on two key modern technological frameworks, Semantic Data and RESTful API’s, which in turn are both examples of rapidly adopted and evolving Web technologies. We review the motivation for such an infrastructure, the concepts and tools that can enable such a design and various related initiatives. We describe in detail the current version of the API specification.

For definiteness, we illustrate the concept with an open source implementation that takes a use case from the analysis of credit risk in loan portfolios. The implementation consists of demo model and data servers and clients implemented using Python and MongoDB.

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### Open Risk White Paper 2: _Confidence Capital: The Principle_

([OpenRiskWP02_040815][13])

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/capital_ratio-300x225.jpeg" alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2634" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/capital_ratio-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/capital_ratio-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/capital_ratio.jpeg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />][14]

We review the structure of economic capital frameworks commonly used within financial institutions and identify why the derived capital metrics do not explicitly address the needs for maintaining ongoing confidence on the soundness of the firm. In the follow up to the financial crisis the need for more explicit such tests has been highlighted by regulatory stress testing methodologies.

The likelihood and severity of a future ratings downgrade (as opposed to a default within the risk horizon) are the two key new &#8220;risk appetite&#8221; inputs required for the framework. The temporal correlation of losses beyond the risk horizon with those within the horizon is one of the main new risk parameters that are highlighted by the framework.

We derive explicit formulas for implementing a confidence capital framework in a two period setup that can lead to tractable implementations. We include a brief quantitative study that addresses a very simplified case that is solvable in terms of simple formulas. We explore the relation of confidence capital to economic capital for various choices of risk appetite and inter-temporal loss correlations

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### Open Risk White Paper 1: _Revisiting Simple Concentration Indexes_

([OpenRiskWP01_032705][15])

We review the definitions of widely used concentration metrics such as the concentration ratio, the HHI index and the Gini and clarify their meaning and relationships. This new analytic framework helps clarify the apparent arbitrariness of simple concentration indexes and brings to the fore the underlying unifying concept behind these metrics, thereby enabling their more informed use in portfolio and risk management applications. We also propose that the sensitivity of concentration indexes to growing concentration should be a defining criterion for adopting an index and explore the sensitivity of common indexes to changing portfolio concentrations. We show that this sensitivity can vary significantly between indexes for parametric families of portfolio distributions and hence selecting and using a simple concentration index should take this aspect carefully into consideration.

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## Presentations

### IO Workshop 2025: How to Random Walk on Supply and Use Tables (and why bother?)

[Presentation](IO2025_Presentation.pdf) given at the 16th Input-Output Workshop, March 27st 2025, Groningen, Netherlands. We discuss how Supply and Use tables can be mapped naturally into Bipartite Graph Networks (in various Open and Closed economy configurations).

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sut_graph.png" width="300"/>]

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### IO Workshop 2024: EEIO in Sustainable Finance - Challenges and Opportunities

[<img src="https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NGFS_Scenarios_II.png" width="300"/>][32]

*EEIO in Sustainable Finance: Challenges and Opportunities*

[Presentation][31] given at the 15th I-O Workshop, March 1st 2024, Osnabruck, Germany

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### TopQuants 2015: Open Risk API

*Improved financial risk management through open data, open source and web technologies*

[Presentation][18] given at the TopQuants/DNB Autumn Meeting, Amsterdam, Nov 18, 2015

[1]: OpenRiskWP08_131219.pdf
[2]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/econ_network.png
[3]: OpenRiskWP07_022616.pdf
[4]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/npl_plot.png
[5]: OpenRiskWP06_012116.pdf
[6]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FX_volatility.png
[7]: OpenRiskWP05_010916.pdf
[8]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bmc.png
[9]: OpenRiskWP04_061415.pdf
[10]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/turing.png
[11]: OpenRiskWP03_053115.pdf
[12]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/linked_models.png
[13]: OpenRiskWP02_040815.pdf
[14]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/capital_ratio.jpeg
[15]: OpenRiskWP01_032705.pdf
[16]: OpenRiskWP09_301020.pdf
[17]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bank_unbundled.png
[18]: TopQuants2015.pdf
[19]: OpenRiskWP10_300621.pdf
[20]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/spatial_network.png
[21]: OpenRiskWP11_021221.pdf
[22]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Planetary-Boundaries.png
[23]: OpenRiskWP12_230922.pdf
[24]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Planetary-Boundaries.png
[25]: OpenRiskWP13_200323.pdf
[26]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/federated_models.png
[27]: OpenRiskWP14_190523.pdf
[28]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/energyLedger.png
[29]: OpenRiskWP15_020224.pdf
[30]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fediverse.png
[31]: IO2024_Presentation.pdf
[32]: https://www.openriskmanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NGFS_Scenarios_II.png

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