Digitizing trillions of dollars in payments bumps up against the complexities of the claims processes, and the tangled web of interactions between carriers, policyholders, regulators and a host of multiple payees.

eCommerce has set a high bar for all manner of industries, and insurance is no exception.

“If we can make an iPhone or an Android phone buzz with a deposit, satisfying a claim while the policyholder is still on the line with the adjuster, or still texting back and forth with the adjuster, we can create a much more satisfying solution and one where the promise of insurance is actually realized,” One Inc. CEO Ian Drysdale told PYMNTS in an interview.

The efforts are titanic in scope. Drysdale said insurers must navigate 50 different regulators in 50 different states. The ways in which surcharges or convenience fees, premiums and other financial interactions are calculated and conducted vary from market to market. A key example lies with auto insurance, where 28% of claims are related to “totaled” status, seeking to recoup the total value of the car.

Insurers must find out how much is due on the auto loan, who holds that loan and where to pay off that loan.

“Then you’ve got to track down who’s got the title,” Drysdale said, and move the title from the lien holder to the bank — and work with the salvage company to see how much the totaled car might sell for, say, overseas. Eventually, the claims are paid out.

Overall, with specialized claims, such as workers comp, Drysdale said, “when you layer the complexity of electronic payments on top of that, and you’re talking about thousands and thousands of permutations and combinations,” small- to and medium-sized insurers don’t have the resources to tackle it all. Paper checks are still a big slice of payouts at about half of disbursements.

“Insurers know they have to move forward to be relevant” in the digital age, he said. Insurance executives use banking apps, Amazon and Netflix every day in their personal lives, and they recognize the value and ease of streamlined digital interactions.

“It all requires multiple movements of money and multiple movements of data,” he said. “It requires multiple sign-offs.”

Moving Into the Digital Age

One Inc., which seeks to digitize the insurance industry and connect those stakeholders and payments, counts 11 of the top 15 insurers in the United States among its clientele (up from 10 a few months ago). Moving to digital channels helps deliver the promise of insurance, Drysdale said. If something goes wrong, there’s an affordable solution to the problem that would otherwise be financially painful or even impossible (such as, say, replacing a car or dealing with home repairs after a catastrophe).

“That’s the moment of truth,” he said, and insurers that do not meet expectations during the claims process lose policyholders (and revenues).

Delving back into the claims process with autos, when one of the company’s 900,000 vendors or suppliers needs to be paid, the carrier sends a payment to One Inc., which then disburses the money electronically.

In terms of the digital transformation, One Inc. can take a top-tier insurer from 15% of its payments done digitally to 75% in a single day, Drysdale said.

Over the long term, the company will look to expand in worker’s compensation, automating revenue cycle management and back-office reconciliation. An injured worker can pick PayPal, Venmo or Mastercard Send for their money, and they will be “paid correctly on time and digitally within the rules of that state,” Drysdale said.

“We are leveraging the value of real-time payments and push to debit, so the people can be paid 24/7/365 via their favorite wallet type,” he said. “…We’re seeing that modern, forward-thinking insurers desire a world in which the claimants, the vendors and the suppliers are paid instantly … and the demand for that is out of sight.”

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The company’s platform is designed to empower insurance brokers by automating processes that are traditionally manual and time-consuming, 1Fort said in a Thursday (April 17) press release.

“This investment will allow us to grow even faster by doubling down on our AI features and strengthening our broker and carrier partnerships,” 1Fort Co-Founder and CEO Anthony Marshi said in the release.

Currently, 1Fort employs AI to automate several broker workflows. These features include autofilling insurance applications, retrieving quotes from carriers, comparing coverages, and integrating payment and financing options, according to the release.

By utilizing these AI tools, brokers save up to two hours per submission and increase their bind rate by as much as 20%, the release said.

Furthermore, 1Fort offers complementary risk management software that helps brokers better retain clients by allowing businesses to manage policies and proactively prevent claims, per the release.

1Fort has partnerships with over a dozen leading brokerages and carriers and saw nearly 200% month-over-month revenue growth in 2024, the release said.

Jim Andelman, co-founder and managing director of Bonfire Ventures, which led the funding round, said in the release that 1Fort’s solutions target a trillion-dollar market.

“Building AI-powered, service-as-software solutions to modernize legacy workflows in the insurance vertical is one of today’s most exciting opportunities,” Andelman said.

The insurance industry has a head start in the AI race, PYMNTS reported in February.

Companies operating in this sector are technologically sophisticated and have deep libraries of operating data, so they frequently have the infrastructure, employee talent and resource allotment framework in place to leverage the innovations more effectively and faster than those in other sectors.

Latin American InsurTech Olé Life said in January that it raised $13 million with the help of PayPal Ventures to boost its growth across the region by establishing local operations in key markets and introducing new products beyond life insurance.

In May, InsurTech Cover Genius said it raised $80 million in Series E funding to grow its embedded protection offering and to invest in new technology like improve digital insurance distribution solutions, AI-powered claims handling and additional protection solutions to be made available on the platform.

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One Inc. Chief Revenue Officer Kevin Ostrander told PYMNTS that payments remain among the most important touch points within those interactions, yet payments are inefficient, often paper-based. However, the insurance industry has been going through what he called “a massive digital transformation over the last 20 years” that promises to speed up workflows and payments.

That transformation was initially focused on core systems, where carriers began to move off their legacy systems, which housed hundreds of applications that governed and ran insurance operations, from billing to claims. Carriers have been striving to streamline all manner of processes and drive an optimized customer experience, he said.

As for the payments, “when you think generally about payments overall, the concept of accepting a payment or pushing a payment isn’t really complicated,” he said. But what is complicated is getting to the point where, in property and casualty, life insurance and other segments, carriers can meet customers where, when and how they want to pay and be paid.

Paper Still Dominates

“Paper is still dominant within the insurance industry, both on the inbound premium side as well as on the disbursement side,” Ostrander said.

Interactions with customers are infrequent, as premiums may be paid once a year or on a staggered monthly basis — and they’re typically paid even less frequently when a claims process is completed.

Those relatively limited engagements give insurers a few critical junctures to move to digital means of connection, from SMS communications to digital invoices and payments.

One’s unified insurance platform offers carriers a fully functional payment solution that solves “the unique needs of the insurance industry, while also delivering a seamless and consistent user experience across the end-to-end lifecycle,” spanning inbound premium payments, new business binders or payments that are conducted over the phone (through IVR) with call centers, Ostrander said.

“You want to have the same consistent user experience regardless of how they’re engaging with you,” he said.

That standard UX is rendered through customer profiles, consistent payment-related settings and a frictionless payment experience — and centralized wallets wherein those payment instruments (such as debit cards) are housed, he said.

“If you’re going to use your debit card to make a policy premium payment, why would a carrier ask you to reenter your debit card information when it’s time for a claims process?” Ostrander said. “Why should they ask you to reenter your debit card information when you’re going through a premium refund? That information should be available, and that customer wallet should follow you around anytime you’re engaging ultimately with that carrier.”

The platform transcends the capabilities that would be available if carriers opted to embrace a range of standalone solutions to digitize their operations, he said. There are also benefits of harnessing the unified solution to improve back-end processes, especially with treasury management, due to linking with a single banking partner and single reconciliation solution.

“This simplifies audit trails and financial tracking,” he said. “There’s standardization in APIs, there’s standardization in client support, whether that is technical or client account management,” and in complying with data security as well.

On the regulatory front, there are state-by-state regulations that govern payment timeliness and optionality that are in turn made easier to comply with as carriers link to One Inc. (In some states, offering a digital payment to an end user must come before a customer opts to receive a paper check.)

“There’s tremendous benefit there for carriers as they look to work with a third party that stays in lockstep — from a regulatory perspective and from a solution perspective — to deliver iterative value in a rapidly changing environment,” Ostrander said.

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While that should come as no surprise to anyone who has interacted with it recently, it’s not necessarily a conscious choice. The insurance sector is innately and uniquely hindered by legacy systems, regulatory complexities, as well as the sheer scale of underwriting and claims processes.

For commercial insurance to most effectively take its digital transformation medicine, it will need “a painkiller, not just a vitamin. Something that solves acute pain points from day one,” Vishal Sankhla, co-founder and CEO of Outmarket AI, told PYMNTS Karen Webster.

But the inefficiencies plaguing commercial insurance are not new. So why is the industry suddenly waking up to the need for change?

According to Sankhla, whose company just raised $4.7 million to enhance connectivity between brokers, wholesalers and carriers, the answer is twofold: an ongoing drive for efficiency, and the availability of advanced artificial intelligence (AI).

“We’re not just digitizing insurance,” Sankhla said. “We’re redefining it.”

The AI Advantage in Insurance

Sankhla’s company isn’t just leveraging existing AI models — it’s building an insurance-specific one from the ground up. 

“We’ve spent the last year working closely with brokers, MGAs [managing general agents] and wholesalers to develop a solution tailored for insurance,” he said. “Generic AI models won’t go deep into the workflows or integrate with legacy systems.”

One of the most significant impacts of AI in commercial insurance is its potential for greater standardization and orchestration across system-level silos.

“If you ask a data analyst to pull a metric like last month’s premium, you’ll get different answers because they’re looking at different systems,” Sankhla explained. “We provide a unified data layer where definitions are standardized, ensuring consistency across the company.”

Since launching in November, Outmarket has onboarded 10 pilot customers, a testament to the industry’s hunger for innovation. The company’s focus? Insurance brokers, a critical yet technologically underserved segment of the value chain.

Sankhla, who previously led product development at Ethos Life, witnessed firsthand the inefficiencies plaguing insurance brokers. From an avalanche of emails and phone calls to processing 200-page policy documents manually, brokers are overwhelmed with friction-heavy workflows.

Worse still, brokers sit on troves of data that remain siloed across disparate agency management systems, claims platforms, and CRMs, preventing them from unlocking insights that could enhance their business performance.

“Brokers are absolutely critical to this value chain,” Sankhla explained. “They provide important advisory services on what insurances businesses need. Businesses don’t just need one insurance — they need multiple coverages. And all of their workflows are extremely manual.”

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AI-Driven Inflection Point

AI also allows brokers to optimize key performance indicators (KPIs) such as the submission-to-bind ratio — the time taken from application submission to policy binding. 

“If one carrier takes too long, brokers can explore faster alternatives. AI can also pre-fill renewal applications using last year’s data, eliminating unnecessary back and forth,” Sankhla said.

Previously, insurance firms had to stitch together multiple point solutions — data warehouses, analytics platforms, and workflow automation tools — to achieve partial efficiency. AI can now helps firms to consolidate these functions, offering a seamless, automated experience.

“We don’t ask brokers to change their workflows or their systems of record,” Sankhla said. “That’s not practical. Instead, we connect existing systems, making it easier for brokers to do what they already do, but faster and better.”

Still, as AI adoption accelerates, what happens when every player in the ecosystem has access to the same technology?

For Sankhla, he sees the competitive advantage shifting toward how well companies integrate AI into their operations.

“Every industry today is looking for efficiency. How do I grow my top line? How do I control my costs?” Sankhla explained. “The second big thing is that the technology is there now. AI wasn’t where it is today. Now, you can meaningfully automate, creating a co-pilot-like experience for brokers.”

Looking ahead, while Sankhla’s immediate focus is on brokers, the implications of Outmarket’s AI-driven platform extend across the insurance ecosystem. 

“A more efficient broker system means more accurate, complete applications for underwriters,” he added. “Carriers get better data, which means they can process applications faster and offer better coverage options to businesses.”

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That investigation, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) said Monday (Feb. 24), has resulted in $20.4 million in fines on insurers who failed to provide insured vehicle information to the state’s motor vehicles department (DMV) in a timely fashion.

“Accurate and timely reporting by insurers is critical to protecting New Yorkers on the road, ensuring compliance with state laws, and maintaining the integrity of our enforcement systems,” NYDFS superintendent Adrienne Harris said in a news release.

“These actions demonstrate DFS’s unwavering commitment to holding insurers accountable and safeguarding consumers.”

According to the NYDFS, New York’s insurance law requires companies to report newly insured vehicles to the DMV within seven days of the policy’s effective date. In addition, most insurance terminations and suspensions must be reported within 30 days.

“These requirements are vital to ensuring law enforcement can identify uninsured vehicles, maintaining accurate DMV records, and protecting New Yorkers in the event of an accident,” the NYDFS said in the release.

The department said it handed down fines to insurers across the industry, while also issuing 37 consent orders.

The news comes three months after the NYDFS fined auto insurers Geico and Travelers a combined $11.3 million in penalties “for having poor data security,” which allowed the information of more than 120,000 New Yorkers to be compromised.

As PYMNTS has written, the NYDFS is one of the more powerful state financial regulators, as many of the country’s largest banks are headquartered within its jurisdiction.

Following President Trump’s victory last year, Harris told the Financial Times that the department could potentially pick up some of the regulatory slack if the new administration decided to take a more hands-off approach to regulation.

“We’re going to keep focusing on getting money back for consumers,” said Harris, whose department has hired hundreds of new staffers in recent years. Although she stressed that her office was “not ideological,” she added: “If there are new gaps that emerge because we don’t have a partner then we’ll work to fill those gaps as appropriate.”

Since then, the administration has tried to make good on its campaign promises, with plans to potentially combine some regulatory agencies while freezing enforcement activity at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

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The Series B funding, announced Thursday (Jan. 16), will allow Olé to boost its growth across Latin America by establishing local operations in key markets and introducing new products beyond life insurance.

“As the first fully digital life insurance product in Latin America, this funding is a testament to the incredible progress we’ve made in building a platform that resonates with our customers,” Michael Carricarte, Olé Life’s founder and CEO, said in a news release.

“With the support of PayPal Ventures, we are poised to expand our reach beyond USD-denominated term life policies and introduce groundbreaking offerings, such as whole-family protection plans that address the region’s unique needs. This investment is a pivotal step toward transforming how financial protection is delivered, empowering millions of families to secure their futures.”

Olé Life, the release said, has more than $2 billion in total insured value and 4,000-plus distribution partners, positioning it to address the rising demand for insurance in the region. 

PYMNTS wrote recently about the challenges facing the insurance sector in implementing real-time payouts. Despite the potential benefits for insurers and customers, such as reduced delays and improved satisfaction, the industry has been slower to embrace real-time payouts because of high costs and transparency issues.

At least, that’s the case for smaller insurers. Larger companies have been more ready to adopt real-time payments. Research by PYMNTS Intelligence finds that 69% of large insurers see real-time payment capabilities as very or extremely important to their business, compared to just 33% of smaller insurance companies that hold that view.

“Larger insurers have the resources to overcome the initial barriers of cost and integration, allowing them to implement real-time payment solutions more effectively,” PYMNTS wrote.

Most of the real-time payment adoption in the insurance sector comes from business-to-business (B2B) transactions, with small insurers employing these systems for operations with partners instead of direct claimant payouts. 

“For larger insurers, however, real-time payments offer a competitive edge by improving cash flow management and strengthening relationships with partners,” the report said. “The ability to offer faster payouts is viewed as crucial to maintaining a competitive advantage.”

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Columbia Insurance Group (CIG), specializing in property and casualty insurance for small and mid-size businesses, will now begin using One’s PremiumPay and ClaimsPay solutions, for both inbound and outbound payments, the company announced in a Thursday (Jan. 16) news release.

“By integrating PremiumPay, One Inc’s low-code/no-code inbound payments solution, CIG will have the tools to power personalized branding, manage multi-channel communication preferences and deliver proactive messaging at the most critical times,” the release said.

The outbound-focused ClaimsPay lets CIG policyholders make payments through platforms such as PayPal, Venmo and Zelle, as well as interactive voice responses (IVR) and text messaging, the company added.

CIG Chief Information Officer Lisa Wharton said One’s “deep expertise in digital payments enables us to seamlessly integrate cutting-edge technology, providing our policyholders with a payment experience that is not only modern and efficient but also secure.”

PYMNTS spoke last year with One Inc. CEO Ian Drysdale about the potential for embedded payments in the insurance sector to improve the overall user experience while helping to improve corporate margins.

“You might pay your auto insurance 12 times a year, or you might pay for other insurance several times a year,” he said. “That’s when you really ‘experience’ your insurance company.”

That report noted that One offers client firms the ability to remind people that it’s time to make a payment for their insurance.

With a nod to payments, Drysdale added: “We make sure that modern wallets are there, we make sure it’s completely embedded in their core system” and that claims submissions and sign-offs are handled digitally.

He predicted that $70 billion in premiums will be embedded in the years to come. It’s a system that lets data be shared seamlessly between parties, while giving insurers some added top-line growth and momentum.

“Any kind of insurance that is completely online and seamless is hyper-attractive to an insurance company,” said Drysdale, arguing that “the future of insurance is ‘instant.’”

The executive returned to speak with PYMNTS again earlier this week amid the wildfires in Los Angeles, where the insured losses could exceed $20 billion. It’s another challenge for California, where insurance companies have been raising their rates or exiting the market entirely.

“People are going to have to think through how insurance works, where they want to live and how they want to live — because the cost of living in certain areas is continuing to increase,” Drysdale told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster.

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Designed for insurance companies and their customers, the new Quotes and Invoices leads insured payers from quote, to invoice, to online payment, the company said in a Wednesday (Jan. 15) press release.

“When done efficiently, policies can bind faster, allowing agencies to spend more time on account servicing and new business development,” the release said.

With Quotes and Invoices, insurance organizations can generate customer quotes from the ePayPolicy Dashboard, email quotes with direct links to a payment page and, when applicable, and add a financing option with their existing premium financing company (PFC) partners, according to the release.

The tool also provides a historical and searchable database of previously sent invoices, per the release.

This new offering presents an alternative to the multiple disconnected technology tools or generic accounting services used by many insurance organizations, the release said.

“Countless agencies have done what most growing companies do — add piecemeal technology as the need arises,” ePayPolicy Chief Product Officer Josh Peterson said in the release. “They often keep using those tools even when they know it’s causing extra work, for lack of options.”

In an earlier addition to its offerings, ePayPolicy teamed up with Agile Premium Finance in May to offer insurance industry clients checkout financing options.

In this partnership, ePayPolicy’s Finance Connect feature enables Agile to offer its customers convenient online financing enrollment and premium payment solutions.

“Finance Connect enables Agile customers to apply for premium financing — including e-signed premium finance agreements (PFA) — in a single, online session, utilizing secure connections to the customer’s systems and popular industry management systems,” the companies said at the time in a press release.

In April 2023, ePayPolicy added a payables reconciliation automation tool called Payables Connect to its product suite, saying it leverages the company’s existing integrations and machine learning technology to automate the reconciliation, creation and payment of due payables.

In another development in this space, Vitesse said in May that it completed a $93 million Series C funding round aimed at growing its treasury and payment solutions for the insurance industry.

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As Ian Drysdale, CEO of One Inc told Karen Webster, “People are going to have to think through how insurance works, where they want to live and how they want to live — because the cost of living in certain areas is continuing to increase.”

Regarding the economics of living in California: State Farm and other insurers had cancelled thousands of policies in the past year in the now-ravaged Pacific Palisades neighborhood. Some residents opted to use the California FAIR Plan Association, which he described as the insurer of last resort in the state. The jury’s still out if there will be bailouts to help cover the losses. But the average premium in the affected area, Drysdale said, had risen 24% in the impacted fire zone, and even the average claim paid through the One Inc platform in that area had grown by double digits year over year.

The fires, he said, “will continue to push us all towards digital payments and instant digital payments … and using AI for both underwriting and claims.” 

In many areas, the cost of insurance is making it tougher to afford a home at all — and there’s a bit of conundrum here, as many mortgages simply can’t be completed (and a property purchased) without insurance in place. The rule of thumb has been that the annual cost of insurance is roughly 1% of the cost of the house — but if once-in-every-100-year events occur with more frequency, it’s a given that insurance costs will soar.

As for One Inc’s own business, Drysdale noted that his firm had been facilitating roughly $100 billion of insurance payments annually, with two-thirds of that volume consisting of claims payments to individuals and service providers.

“I expect we’re going to see a big spike here at One Inc in payouts to the LA area,” Drysdale said. The company has been enabling instant payments, which are now seeing strong demand from claims departments at several of the about 60 insurer clients One Inc works with in the state. Visa Direct and Mastercard Send are seeing strong uptake as they help deliver the fastest flow of funds to affected individuals.

The tailwind towards digital payouts was already in place, as One Inc had been bringing on two carriers a week to shift to digital channels, and the company’s network of 800,000 vendors has been using digital payments, too, which saves as much as $15 on the cost of a check and eliminates the inefficiencies of paper-based payments.

Significant Changes

Beyond the shifts in the insurance industry, Drysdale said that as LA rebuilds, companies and contractors will use more up-to-date standards than what had been in place roughly 90 years ago when the city was built up around the movie industry. There may be wholesale shifts away from LA, as those who fled the fires to seek temporary housing may wind up making their new situations permanent.

“I think this is going to drive people towards safer areas that are less expensive to insure,” Drysdale said. Wealthy people may continue to live on the coasts or in high-risk areas, but every day, middle-class individuals will gravitate toward where they can be approved for and afford a mortgage.

“We don’t know exactly what’s next,” Drysdale told Webster, adding that the fires “will cause us all to change how we think about our lives.”

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According to a PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Real Time Matters: The Imperative for Instant Disbursements for Insurance,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, smaller insurers are particularly hindered by these barriers, although many plan to adopt real-time payment systems in the coming year. The report explores these obstacles and the strategies insurers are using, including partnerships with FinTechs, to accelerate adoption.

Challenges in Implementing Real-Time Payments

A major barrier to implementing real-time payments for insurance companies, particularly smaller firms, is the significant cost of integration. According to the report, 82% of small insurers cite the expense of implementing real-time payments as a key issue. This challenge is compounded by concerns about fraud and data theft, with half of small insurers expressing reservations about the risks associated with adopting new payment technologies. Additionally, 32% of insurers highlight the lack of transparency in payment processes as a major obstacle. These concerns contribute to a slower adoption rate, despite the growing demand for quicker, more efficient claims processing.

Despite these challenges, 87% of small insurers who have not yet implemented real-time payments plan to do so within the next year. This reflects a growing awareness that the benefits of faster payments — such as improving customer satisfaction and retaining policyholders — outweigh the initial implementation costs.

Larger Firms Shift Toward Real-Time Payments

While small insurers face considerable hurdles, larger companies are quicker to embrace real-time payments. According to the report, 69% of large insurers view real-time payment capabilities as very or extremely important to their business. This contrasts with 33% of small insurers who share that view. Larger insurers have the resources to overcome the initial barriers of cost and integration, allowing them to implement real-time payment solutions more effectively.

Most real-time payment adoption in the insurance sector comes from business-to-business (B2B) transactions, with small insurers using these systems for operations with partners rather than direct claimant payouts. For larger insurers, however, real-time payments offer a competitive edge by improving cash flow management and strengthening relationships with partners. The ability to offer faster payouts is viewed as crucial to maintaining a competitive advantage in the modern insurance landscape.

FinTech Partnerships: A Key Solution for Overcoming Barriers

To drive the adoption of real-time payments, many insurance companies are turning to FinTech partnerships. According to the report, 82% of large insurers plan to collaborate with FinTech firms to help reduce the high costs of implementation, simplify integration and provide the technological infrastructure necessary for seamless payments. Notably, digital giants like PayPal and Stripe are favored by insurers for their expertise in enabling real-time payments, with 81% of insurers indicating a preference for partnering with these companies.

In addition to streamlining claims payments, insurers are also leveraging FinTech partnerships to offer innovative embedded insurance products, such as digital coverage for travel or event ticket purchases. With consumer demand for instant payouts growing, these collaborations are seen as a way for insurers to meet customer expectations, drive revenue and enhance loyalty, positioning real-time payments as a key component of the industry’s future.

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