A receivables pool may offer a substantial face value, payments due relatively soon and an apparently attractive discount. Those figures become meaningful only once the investor understands what is being acquired. For an investor exposed to a Brazilian FIDC, a receivables investment fund, the central questions are whether the receivables exist, whether the proposed assignor owns them and whether they meet the fund's investment policy, acquisition criteria and applicable limits. Evidence must support this assessment for individual receivables and the resulting portfolio. A persuasive commercial presentation cannot replace that work.
What investors need to establish before considering the discount
FIDCs are subject to specific provisions on receivables under CVM Resolution 175, particularly Annex II. The analysis also considers the fund rules, the relevant class documents and the applicable contracts, according to the structure. Whether an acquisition fits the framework depends on these documents and the responsibilities of the providers involved. Calling a receivable a business asset, attaching an invoice or organizing it on a platform does not establish eligibility. Presentation through KEZS, or any other opportunity platform, does not change that requirement.
KEZS connects entrepreneurial projects and potential funders through technology and intermediation. A project-oriented approach can help explain the business activity that generates a receivable and make its documentation easier to understand. This is different from assigning a risk rating: KEZS does not assign a credit score, and investors conduct their own diligence and make their own decisions. This article presents an educational method for examining evidence, identifying gaps and understanding the economic consequences of decisions. It assumes no approval, repayment, profitability, liquidity or preservation of capital.
A data room is a chain of evidence
A useful data room supports a traceable chain: the underlying transaction, creation of the payment obligation, debtor identity, delivery or performance, enforceable amount, maturity, ownership, restrictions and payment arrangements. Folder order matters less than the ability to connect these elements without guessing. If a spreadsheet lists a Brazilian trade receivable, such as a duplicata, but its supporting document cannot be located or a value difference explained, the evidence remains incomplete. Thousands of available files do not compensate for a missing link in that chain.
A record for each receivable can include a stable identifier, assignor, debtor, known economic group, source document, original amount, outstanding balance, maturity, delivery status, amendment history and links to supporting evidence. It should also identify the source of each item and when it was obtained. An assignor's statement, a debtor's response and an independent source check support different conclusions. Keeping those distinctions visible prevents one unsupported assertion, copied into several documents, from appearing to have several independent confirmations.
Organization should distinguish information received, checks performed and conclusions reached. For example, the assignor reports delivery; a delivery receipt is supplied; an analyst matches it against the order, recipient and quantity; a commercial complaint remains unresolved. This sequence allows another reviewer to revisit the conclusion without losing the original uncertainty. Documentary transparency means showing how an assessment was reached and which limitations remain open. It does not mean marking every field as resolved merely because a document has been uploaded.
Establishing existence: invoicing does not complete the investigation
Establishing a receivable's existence requires understanding the event that creates the obligation to pay. For goods, ordering, invoicing, transport, delivery and acceptance may be separate stages. For services, the contract, measurement of work, performance and customer approval may determine the amount due. An invoice helps document a transaction, but alone does not demonstrate that there was no cancellation, return, partial performance or dispute. Investors need to understand the conditions that could reduce the amount collectible or prevent collection altogether.
A consistent review compares documents that should describe the same transaction. Delivered quantities must make sense against the order, the amount charged must follow the contractual basis and maturity must reflect the commercial terms. Where the buyer is entitled to reductions, withholdings or offsets, face value may exceed the amount ultimately recoverable. The data room should therefore distinguish gross invoicing, known adjustments and the eligible outstanding balance. Hiding these differences in a generic discount category makes it harder to identify the obligation actually being purchased.
Existing rights must also be separated from hoped-for sales. A forecast that a project will sell a particular volume helps explain its commercial plan, but does not turn future sales into existing receivables. If a payment obligation depends on future delivery, that condition must be identified and assessed against the documents and the fund's policy. Treating an expectation as an established receivable misrepresents both legal risk and cash timing. It may suggest that the investor is funding an obligation already formed when an essential condition remains outstanding.
Ownership: tracing the right to the party entitled to assign it
After examining the underlying transaction, the review must establish who owns the right and who has authority to transfer it. A trading name may differ from the legal entity that issued the invoice, received an advance or signed the contract. Companies in the same economic group do not automatically own one another's receivables. The data room needs to connect the transaction to the identified creditor and support checks of representation, signing authority and consistency among commercial contracts, tax documents and assignment instruments.
Where earlier transfers occurred, the chain must be reconstructed through documents that fit together. An assertion that the current assignor repurchased a portfolio is insufficient: the review must identify which rights returned, under what conditions and whether unresolved matters affect another transfer. Vague descriptions or inconsistent identifiers make it difficult to establish that the reviewed receivable is the same asset described in an assignment. Identifying each right precisely reduces the risk of confusing pools, reusing unrelated schedules or including instruments outside the documented chain.
The ownership conclusion should state the scope of the checks. Reviewing corporate documents does not establish the validity of every earlier assignment, and obtaining a signature does not establish that its signer had sufficient authority. A material uncertainty should become a specific legal question, such as whether a pool is adequately identified or a transfer is effective. An opinion that identifies the documents reviewed, assumptions and qualifications is more useful than an unrestricted statement that everything is in order. Investors can then evaluate what was actually established.
Encumbrances and prior assignments: identifying competing rights
A receivable may exist and belong to the assignor while remaining subject to security, a contractual restriction or a transfer that interferes with acquisition. Reviewing encumbrances and prior assignments seeks to identify competing rights over the same payment stream. Depending on the asset and structure, relevant evidence may include financing agreements, security instruments, applicable registry records, third-party confirmations and release documents. No source should be described as universal. Each search or document has a particular purpose, scope and set of limitations that the review must acknowledge.
Finding no entry in a particular search does not prove that no assignment has ever occurred. Reviewers need to know what the source covers, how the receivable was identified and whether the information remains sufficiently current for acquisition. A contractual representation by the assignor is useful, including for establishing consequences if information proves false. It does not remove exposure to competing ownership claims or difficulties recovering money. Contractual protections and documentary diligence perform different functions; both matter, and neither should be used to imply certainty beyond its reach.
One recurring situation is a promise to release a pool using part of the assignment price. This requires a verifiable operational sequence: identify the receivables, confirm the existing obligation, establish release conditions, direct the funds and obtain evidence that the encumbrance has actually been discharged or otherwise resolved. Paying first and waiting for release documents exposes the fund during the gap. If the structure cannot adequately control that transition, excluding the pool or postponing acquisition may be appropriate, even when the assignor offers an additional discount.
Turning the fund's policy into verifiable criteria
The fund's policy must become questions that evidence can answer. Which sources of receivables are permitted? What delivery conditions and maturities are required? Are disputed, overdue or activity-specific receivables restricted? How are related debtors and economic groups treated? Answers should not depend solely on an analyst's free-form statement. A criteria matrix can connect each requirement to its governing document, information source, responsible reviewer and recorded outcome. This makes the reasoning reviewable and exposes requirements for which the team has no adequate source.
Three outcomes should remain distinct: criterion met, criterion not met and insufficient evidence. The third is not provisional approval. When an essential document is missing, the receivable remains pending until the information supports a decision. This distinction helps prevent commercial pressure from turning a lack of proof into a favorable assumption. It also recognizes that an economically plausible receivable may fall outside this particular fund's policy. Such an outcome does not establish that the asset would be suitable for some other structure without further analysis.
Exceptions must follow the applicable rules. A committee cannot simply waive a prohibition it has no authority to change. Where judgment is permitted, the record should identify the reasoning, supporting documents, impact and responsible authority. Assessment must cover the portfolio actually being acquired, including its interaction with existing holdings. A pool may satisfy every individual eligibility test yet breach a concentration or other limit when added to the fund. Approval based on an earlier version of the pool cannot automatically carry over after its composition changes.
A complete portfolio selection example
Consider a wholly hypothetical example, with no claim to represent market rates or regulatory limits. An assignor offers 100 receivables of R$10,000 each, totaling R$1,000,000. Debtor A accounts for 20 receivables; B for 15; C, D, E, F and G for ten each; and H, I and J for five each. To simplify the arithmetic, assume that none belongs to the same economic group and that the fund has no existing exposure to them. These are calculation assumptions that would require verification in an actual acquisition.
Diligence finds insufficient delivery evidence for four A receivables totaling R$40,000; unresolved indications of prior assignment for three B receivables totaling R$30,000; commercial disputes affecting two C receivables totaling R$20,000; and one canceled D receivable of R$10,000. These ten receivables, totaling R$100,000, are excluded from this acquisition. The remaining 90 receivables total R$900,000: A has R$160,000; B R$120,000; C R$80,000; D R$90,000; E, F and G R$100,000 each; and H, I and J R$50,000 each.
Now assume a hypothetical policy caps exposure to any debtor at 15% of the selected portfolio's face value. A represents 17.78% of R$900,000. Removing only R$25,000 would conflict with the assumption that whole R$10,000 receivables are purchased. Three more A receivables, totaling R$30,000, are therefore removed. The final portfolio has 87 receivables and R$870,000 in face value. A holds R$130,000, approximately 14.94%; B represents approximately 13.79%. Removing assets reduces the denominator as well as the relevant debtor's balance, so limits must be recalculated.
Price, cash and results: interpreting the arithmetic
Continue with the R$870,000 portfolio. Assume an acquisition price of 96% of face value, giving a payment to the assignor of R$835,200. The R$34,800 difference is a nominal discount, not a guaranteed investment return. Also assume R$6,000 in incremental transaction expenses and R$30,000 of fund cash set aside for liquidity needs. Against an available budget of R$900,000, these payments and the cash allocation total R$871,200. Another R$28,800 remains unallocated in this exercise. The budget calculation describes the use of available resources, not investment performance.
The R$30,000 liquidity reserve remains fund cash; it is neither a consumed expense nor an automatic loss. Nor should it be added to profit as though the receivables generated it. If all R$870,000 is paid and only the assumed R$6,000 of expenses applies, the simplified economic difference is R$28,800: R$870,000 minus R$835,200 minus R$6,000. This excludes taxes, other providers' remuneration, the effect of time and other charges. It is not the net return on a fund unit, despite matching the separately calculated unallocated budget amount.
For cash timing, assume three groups of 29 receivables, each totaling R$290,000, mature 30, 60 and 90 days after acquisition. The fund pays the purchase price at the outset and expects R$290,000 at each maturity. That schedule must be compared with its other obligations and the structure's liquidity rules. Receiving the full amount substantially late may preserve part of the principal while still damaging the economic result and the ability to meet outflows. Purchase price and payment timing must therefore be examined together.
Concentration: understanding who may fail together
Exposure by debtor is only one dimension of concentration. Businesses with different names may depend on the same controller, end customer, sector, region or distribution channel. A portfolio spread across many documents can remain economically concentrated. The data room should support investigation of these connections and distinguish confirmed relationships from suspected ones. Where information is insufficient to determine a material economic group connection, that uncertainty must be visible in the decision and handled as the policy requires. Counting legal entities alone cannot establish meaningful diversification.
Concentration can also sit with the assignor and collection infrastructure. Even with many debtors, every document may depend on one system, and every payment may pass through the account of a business experiencing financial difficulty. Trouble at that business could interrupt information, reconciliation and transfers simultaneously. Investors should understand whether apparent asset diversification remains useful given these common dependencies, or whether substantial risk is concentrated in the provider that maintains the operational flow. The number of receivables does not reveal these shared points of failure.
In the example, A falls below the hypothetical limit after selection, but its percentage can change as principal is repaid. If other debtors pay first and A pays late, A's share of the remaining balance rises. The consequences depend on the definition of the limit and the applicable monitoring rules; they should not be assumed. Reports need to state the calculation base, measurement point and required response. A percentage without its denominator, context and associated action can convey misleading reassurance, even if the arithmetic itself is correct.
Collections: establishing that payments reach the correct destination
An acquisition supported by consistent documents can still lose value if collection arrangements fail. The operating design should explain who informs the debtor, when notification occurs, how instructions are confirmed, which account receives payment and how each receipt is matched to a receivable. The appropriate form depends on the asset and legal structure. Economically, the fund needs evidence that payment was directed to the correct destination and that a receivable marked as settled corresponds to money actually identified, rather than an unexplained change in system status.
If the assignor continues receiving payments, there is exposure during the interval between the debtor paying and the fund receiving the transfer. This differs from buyer default. A debtor may pay in full while the money never reaches the assets of the party entitled to receive it. The data room should show collection contracts, transfer arrangements, reconciliation controls and available continuity measures. Confidence in a commercial relationship does not replace understanding this dependency, the period of exposure or the consequences if the collecting party cannot transfer the money.
Useful reconciliation separates expected amounts, receipts, differences, reasons and responsibility for resolution. Partial payments, reductions, unidentified deposits and payments to the wrong account need their own resolution queues. Bank detail changes warrant verification through a channel independent of the change request, supported by appropriate permissions and records. The history of these incidents helps assess actual collection costs. Frequent manual adjustments can consume a material share of the purchase discount and reduce information reliability, particularly when unresolved differences accumulate faster than the team can investigate them.
Adverse scenarios: separating delay, loss and recovery costs
Apply an adverse scenario to the same portfolio without changing its purchase price or face value. At the first maturity, the expected R$290,000 arrives. At the second, R$260,000 arrives and three R$10,000 receivables become overdue. At the third, R$240,000 arrives, leaving five receivables totaling R$50,000 unpaid. At 120 days, the overdue R$30,000 from the second group is received in full. At 150 days, only R$20,000 of the third group's R$50,000 is recovered, with a hypothetical permanent loss of the remaining R$30,000.
Total receipts are R$840,000: R$290,000 plus R$260,000 plus R$240,000 plus R$30,000 plus R$20,000. Against the R$835,200 purchase price and R$6,000 of expenses, the simplified result is a loss of R$1,200. The initial R$34,800 discount is outweighed by R$30,000 of credit loss and R$6,000 of expenses. Additional recovery costs would worsen the result. Late receipts also have an economic effect, although this calculation does not express it as a rate. Recovering delayed principal and avoiding permanent loss are related but different outcomes.
A liquidity reserve may help bridge a temporary cash mismatch, but using it reduces cash available for other obligations and does not turn a loss into a gain. The response depends on the cause: an operational delay, financial distress, commercial dispute and failure to transfer collections require different measures. If the same cause affects several receivables, losses may be correlated. A useful stress test explains those relationships and identifies the circumstances under which the portfolio would cease to meet the fund's needs, rather than merely presenting one aggregate loss percentage.
Operational responsibilities and conflicts of interest
Investors should be able to identify who originates receivables, supplies documents, makes investment decisions and performs the functions required by the structure. Fiduciary administration, portfolio management, registration, custody where applicable, verification and collection should not be treated as a single function. Their actual allocation depends on the applicable rules and contracts. Each obligation needs an identifiable responsible party, a verifiable deliverable and a procedure for failures. A list of providers is insufficient if it leaves unclear which participant must examine a particular risk.
An operational responsibility matrix can specify who checks eligibility before purchase, confirms financial settlement, monitors exceptions and requires discrepancies to be corrected. It should also show the limits of each role. Receiving files may not include validating the underlying economic transaction, and organizing documents may not include giving an ownership opinion. Without this clarity, every participant may assume someone else examined an issue that nobody reviewed. For fund unitholders, the appearance of several layers of review can therefore conceal a substantive gap in responsibility.
Incentives also belong in the assessment. An originator paid according to acquisition volume may favor broader selection; a collection agent may prefer solutions that accelerate its remuneration; related parties may influence pricing and exceptions. Acknowledging these conflicts does not resolve them. Decision rules, appropriate separation of duties, comparison of terms, oversight and records help manage their effects. The cost of these controls belongs alongside their expected benefit in the economic assessment. Operational savings cannot justify ignoring material risks simply because a transaction otherwise appears less expensive to process.
Conflicting evidence: investigation and negotiation
Discrepancies are to be expected in real portfolios. An assignor may report a R$10,000 balance while the debtor recognizes only R$8,000 because goods were returned. A system may show payment outstanding while a receipt suggests settlement. The response should be to develop explanations, seek documents and identify the event behind the difference. A documented return may require a lower balance. An apparent payment requires checks of authenticity, beneficiary and reconciliation before closure. Choosing whichever source makes the acquisition easier does not resolve the underlying question.
Investigations should preserve version history and assign responsibility and conditions for closing each issue. A useful record identifies the disputed amount, conflicting sources, explanation under consideration, further diligence and acquisition impact. The receivable can remain outside the pool while the matter is investigated. If a correction changes the eligible total, concentration limits and price must be recalculated. Replacing the final spreadsheet is not enough if the decision still relies on figures that no longer describe the portfolio. Dependent approvals and documents need to reflect the revised assessment.
Negotiated discounts, price holdbacks, security and substitution obligations can allocate specific risks where the structure permits and the conditions are verifiable. They cannot create a nonexistent right or make a policy-prohibited asset eligible. Their usefulness also depends on the party undertaking the obligation: a repurchase promise offers little economic protection if that party fails precisely when the promise must be enforced. The agreement should define the trigger, evidence, timeframe and enforcement process. Broad protective wording is not equivalent to a remedy that can be exercised when needed.
Data errors: correcting records without erasing the decision trail
File errors can create losses before any debtor defaults. A duplicate receivable inflates the pool; a misread maturity format changes the timing analysis; a truncated identifier makes two documents appear to describe the same receivable. Errors can also affect balances, debtor links and payment classifications. Checks should combine automated rules, reconciliation against control totals and review of exceptions. Automation can identify inconsistencies, but its usefulness depends on the quality and meaning of the input fields. A technically valid import may still contain economically misleading information.
A complete correction identifies the cause, defines the affected records and examines dependent decisions. If an approved pool contains a duplicate, the review extends to acquisition value, concentration, disbursement and reports already issued. An overpayment to the assignor also creates a recovery obligation that requires separate monitoring. The procedure does not end when the spreadsheet is accurate: the financial consequences must be resolved and recurrence prevented in the integration or pool preparation process. Otherwise, a clean replacement file can conceal an unresolved cash loss or a recurring source of errors.
Reconstruction requires preserving the original file, corrected version, explanation, responsible author and relevant approval records under controlled access. Investor reporting should distinguish information errors, credit deterioration and revised estimates, because they have different implications. An apparent increase in losses may reflect late recognition of an older problem; a sudden improvement may result only from reclassification. Governance quality is demonstrated by the ability to explain these changes and their effects. Artificially avoiding corrections deprives investors of a reliable account of what happened and what the current figures mean.
Access, privacy and the limits of technological evidence
A credit data room may contain personal data, commercial contracts, bank information and confidential documents. Access should be proportionate to the task: an investor assessing the structure may need aggregate indicators, while an authorized diligence team may need individual documents. Access profiles, appropriate authentication, activity records, sharing rules and retention controls help reduce exposure. Copying everything into an open folder or distributing the entire database for convenience creates risks that the portfolio discount does not automatically compensate. Document availability must be designed around a legitimate analytical purpose.
Data minimization can also improve analysis. Unnecessary fields may be redacted while preserving information essential for verification by people entitled to perform it. Procedures should address access revocation, incidents and ending document availability when its purpose ends, subject to applicable obligations. Guidance from Brazil's ANPD, the national data protection authority, offers a reference for further study. Consulting an institutional page does not establish compliance for a particular operation. The actual flow of data, access arrangements and handling practices still require examination in their own context.
Electronic signatures, integrity controls and version records can help establish authorship, sequence and whether a file changed, depending on their design. A hash, including one recorded on a blockchain, does not prove that a sale occurred, the assignor owned the receivable, reserves are solvent or the debtor will pay. It cannot cure false information present when a document was created or establish legal title merely by recording an assertion. Private documents should not be placed on public blockchains. Technology can strengthen traceability; economic and legal truth require additional checks.
Turning the data room into a decision that can be monitored
Closing diligence should produce a decision that another reviewer can reconstruct. For each pool, record the submitted population, exclusions and reasons, unresolved issues, selected receivables, applied criteria, concentrations, price, estimated expenses, cash schedule and adverse scenarios. This example ends with 87 receivables totaling R$870,000, after R$100,000 is excluded for documentary or commercial issues and R$30,000 is removed to meet the hypothetical concentration cap. Those figures must reconcile to individual receivable identifiers, the acquisition instrument and the actual disbursement. A polished summary cannot replace those connections.
After acquisition, monitoring compares expectations with actual payments, delays, reductions, repurchases where applicable, recoveries, costs and remaining concentrations. Investors also need to understand how portfolio assets relate to the rights attached to their fund units, the order in which losses are allocated and the structure's liquidity conditions. Collection of the underlying receivables does not mean a unitholder can redeem at any time. Subordination or other protections, where present, have limits and do not guarantee capital. A sound acquisition process must therefore connect to ongoing reporting and the investor's actual contractual rights.
Keep the project opportunity, the instrument and regulatory authorization distinct. Loans, receivables assignments, equity, convertibles and donations create different rights and risks. A donation to a nonprofit is not equity and promises no financial return; an MEI cannot admit equity partners while remaining an MEI. Public securities distribution and regulated financial activities require appropriate structures and providers. Technology or a CNAE economic activity code grants no permission. The practical discipline is to require sufficient evidence, recognize remaining uncertainty and understand that even a well-documented portfolio can produce losses.
Frequently asked questions.
Does a complete data room mean the receivables are approved for any FIDC?
No. Documentary completeness and eligibility are separate assessments. A portfolio may have consistent supporting documents yet fail a particular fund's policy, acquisition criteria or limits. Individual receivables may satisfy their tests while producing excessive concentration when combined with existing holdings. The conclusion should identify the structure examined, the rules applied and the checks performed. Presentation through KEZS does not change the applicable framework or replace the decision of those responsible. Completeness makes assessment more feasible; it does not establish universal suitability, approval or repayment.
When is sampling useful, and when must every receivable be checked?
The scope of verification depends on applicable rules, contracts, asset characteristics and the risk being assessed. A sample can help test process quality, but does not automatically establish that every receivable has the required document or is free of competing claims. Explain how the sample was selected, what conclusions it supports and which controls cover the entire population. Material failures may require expanded review or suspension of the pool. An absence of problems in a sample should not be extended to every asset without a defensible basis.
Does confirmation from the debtor settle existence and ownership questions?
It can provide relevant evidence about the balance, delivery, maturity and disputes, provided the respondent's identity and communication channel are reliable. However, a debtor may not know about security granted by the creditor or have sufficient information about the full assignment chain. Confirmation should answer specific questions and be considered alongside other documents. A positive response about a purchase is not a complete legal conclusion that the receivable can be transferred to the fund. Its value depends on what the respondent can credibly confirm.
Can a larger discount compensate for insufficient documentation?
Only some risks can be estimated and negotiated economically on a sufficient evidential basis. A larger discount cannot create ownership, eliminate a competing assignment or override a policy prohibition. If the gap prevents the investor from knowing what right is being acquired, the problem comes before pricing. In other situations, a clearly bounded uncertainty may inform a decision with the necessary documentation, controls and approvals. The essential distinction is between a risk supported by enough information to assess and the absence of information indispensable to the acquisition.
How should investors interpret repurchase, substitution and indemnity obligations?
Read the trigger and identify who undertakes the obligation. Repurchase for a defect in the underlying transaction does not necessarily cover ordinary debtor default, and substitution may depend on new eligible assets being available. Even contractual protection depends on the obligated party's financial and operational capacity and the ability to enforce it. Investors should assess exposure to that counterparty, resolution timing and cash consequences. These clauses do not amount to a general repayment or capital guarantee, and different triggers can leave materially different risks with the fund.
Which questions help a unitholder assess ongoing monitoring quality?
Ask whether receipts have been reconciled to individual receivables, how much delay reflects commercial disputes or failures to transfer collections, which concentrations changed after repayments and what recovery expenses arose. Also ask whether data corrections changed earlier reports. Answers should use stable definitions and explain any changes in methodology. One aggregate delinquency percentage can conceal important differences among recoverable delays, estimated losses and losses actually recognized. Useful monitoring connects those distinctions to cash movements, responsible parties and the actions taken to resolve outstanding issues.
How should regulatory references be used without treating them as authorization?
CVM Resolution 175, particularly Annex II, is a reference for understanding the FIDC framework; fund documents and the specific structure complete the assessment. Rules governing other forms of distribution or intermediation are relevant only when they correspond to the activity examined. Institutional sources are entry points for research, not proof of KEZS's or another participant's registration, authorization or operational capacity. A conclusion about an operation requires checking its classification and the providers actually responsible. Citing a rule does not establish that its requirements have been met.
References and context
Institutional reference points for checking applicable rules and guidance. Calculations and scenarios are original examples, not quotes, historical results or individualized recommendations.
- Banco Central — correspondentes no País ↗
- CVM — Resolução 88, texto e alterações ↗
- CVM — Resolução 175, fundos de investimento ↗
- Portal do Empreendedor — perguntas sobre MEI ↗
- ANPD — orientações e perguntas frequentes ↗
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