Marcel van Oost

Founder/CEO 

Email for brand collaboration: bonjour @ marcelvanoost.nl 

About me:

What do I want to become when I grow up? That's a question I asked myself for a long time. My childhood dream, playing for Ajax, was soon out of the question (I wasn’t even close…). So what's next? 

I studied Communication & Media, dropped out, and started working at an Acquiring Bank.

After these first steps in the Payments Industry I founded a Payments consultancy business, followed by a Collecting Payment Service Provider, with an exit in 2017. 

Nowadays I'm back in (FinTech-) Media, and invest as an Angel Investor in FinTech startups on the side.

NO, I don't do any speaker gigs, podcasts, webinars etc. 

I DO share the latest FinTech Industry trends and news updates here on Linkedin, and in my daily newsletter. 👉 Get the most important FinTech news and analysis in a 5 minute daily briefing you’ll actually look forward to reading, by signing up here: https://www.connectingthedotsinfin.tech

Investor

Did you know that one of the biggest economic miracles of the 21st century is happening just a two-hour flight away from my hometown Amsterdam?

It’s happening in Poland 🇵🇱

And the numbers are remarkable.

Between 1990 and 2026, Poland’s economy grew roughly 17-fold.

In 1990, Poland’s economy was smaller than Ukraine’s. 

Today, it’s larger than the economies of 14 Eastern European countries combined 🤯

On a per-capita basis, Poland is now roughly as wealthy as Japan 🇯🇵

So why aren’t we talking about this?

If this had happened in Silicon Valley, Netflix would already have made three documentaries about it.

If this had happened in Asia, dozens of books would have been written.

But because it happened in Europe, it’s strangely quiet.

Europe 🇪🇺 still has a lot of work to do, but let’s not forget one thing:

Europe performs. We just don’t celebrate it enough.

Thanks for sharing this Jona van Loenen (source piece here https://lnkd.in/dRM4kmB7)! I couldn’t agree more, so I translated it into English to give it a bit more visibility 👌

Thoughts?

🚨𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: Stripe has expressed interest in acquiring all or parts of PayPal!

Let that sink in.

Stripe, still private, still founder-led, potentially making a move on one of the original digital payments pioneers 🤯

This is early-stage and nothing is confirmed: https://lnkd.in/djESepSw

But strategically? It’s fascinating.

If Stripe were to acquire PayPal (or pieces of it), it would mean:

• Massive merchant + consumer network consolidation
• Combining Stripe’s developer-first infrastructure with PayPal’s global wallet base
• Instant scale in Venmo, branded checkout, and global licenses
• A new competitive dynamic vs Visa, Mastercard, Adyen — and even Apple

It would also mark a generational shift.

Stripe represents the API-driven, infrastructure-native era of FinTech.

PayPal represents the first wave of internet payments.

A deal like this wouldn’t just be M&A.

It would be symbolic.

We’re watching the potential consolidation of two decades of digital payments evolution into one entity.

Now the big questions:

– Would regulators allow it?
– Does Stripe want the full company or just strategic assets?
– Is this opportunistic timing around PayPal’s valuation?

If this goes anywhere, it reshapes the global payments landscape overnight.

What do you think? 

Bold strategic masterstroke or integration nightmare waiting to happen?


P.S. Earlier today, news broke that Stripe has surged from $92B to $𝟭𝟱𝟵 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 valuation in just 12 months through a new employee share sale: https://lnkd.in/dSvGXcHj

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗔 & 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆? This 6-step diagram shows the economics of the Credit Card payment flow from a bird’s-eye view:

1️⃣ The cardholder pays a merchant $100 to buy a product. 

2️⃣ The merchant benefits from the use of the credit card with higher sales volume, and needs to compensate the issuer and the card network for providing the payment service. 

The acquiring bank sets a fee with the merchant, called the “𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞.” 

3️⃣-4️⃣ The acquiring bank keeps $0.25 as the 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐮𝐩, and $1.75 is paid to the issuing bank as the 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞. 

The merchant discount fee should cover the interchange fee. 

The interchange fee is set by the card network because it is less efficient for each issuing bank to negotiate fees with each merchant. 

5️⃣ The card network sets up the 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐬 with each bank, which pays the card network for its services every month. 

For example, VISA charges a 0.11% assessment, plus a $0.0195 usage fee, for every swipe. 

6️⃣ The cardholder pays the issuing bank for its services. 

Why should the issuing bank be compensated? 

► The issuer pays the merchant even if the cardholder fails to pay the issuer. 
► The issuer pays the merchant before the cardholder pays the issuer. 
► The issuer has other operating costs, including managing customer accounts, providing statements, fraud detection, risk management, clearing & settlement, etc. 

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Stripe is lining up a new tender offer, valuing the company at $𝟭𝟰𝟬 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 🤯

I repeat:

Stripe is preparing a new tender offer that would value the company at at least $140 billion, according to Bloomberg (https://lnkd.in/dRqAYHBF), a jump of more than $30 billion from its ~$107B valuation last year: https://lnkd.in/e68nNrGJ

The move reinforces a pattern Stripe has leaned into since 2024: frequent secondary transactions that give employees liquidity without the pressure of going public. 

In other words, Stripe is behaving like a public company, just without the ticker.

Importantly, the fundamentals now support that confidence. Stripe reached full-year profitability in 2024, hasn’t raised primary capital since its $6.5B Series I in 2023, and continues to scale across core payments while expanding into new rails. 

Recent acquisitions of Bridge and Privy signal a serious effort to embed stablecoins and crypto infrastructure directly into its payments stack.

Despite a modest workforce reduction last year (~3.5%), Stripe continues to hire and invest, suggesting the restructuring was about efficiency, not retrenchment.

The takeaway is clear: Stripe doesn’t need the public markets.

With scale, profitability, and private liquidity in place, an IPO is no longer a necessity, it’s an option.


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🚨 𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: Revolut eyes $𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡+ valuation 🤯

And sets IPO ambitions at $150B:

Revolut is considering a fresh sale of shares in the second half of this year, people familiar with the matter said: https://lnkd.in/dpwR9sba

After being valued at $75B last year (up from $45B in 2024), investors are now pushing for a process that would price the company at $100B+ in the secondary market.

And here’s the bold part:

Through an eventual listing, Revolut is said to be targeting a valuation of at least $150 BILLION 🤯

That would put it in the same conversation as global banking heavyweights, and far ahead of most FinTech peers.

This comes on the heels of Stripe’s $159B valuation revealed yesterday: https://lnkd.in/dSvGXcHj

A few important signals:

• Previous rounds were consistently oversubscribed.

• Major names like Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Franklin Templeton and NVentures (the VC arm of NVIDIA Corp) are already on the cap table.

• 2025 revenue reportedly tracking toward £4.1B ($5.5B)

Revolut isn’t just raising capital.

It’s building scarcity before going public.


Are we witnessing the emergence of Europe’s first true $150B tech giant?


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🚨𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Revolut just got the green light to test a UK 🇬🇧 stablecoin.

And it’s happening while they’re still in regulatory limbo…

Despite still being in regulatory “mobilisation” for its UK banking licence, Revolut has been selected by the Financial Conduct Authority to join its stablecoin sandbox.

Out of 20 applicants, only four firms were chosen.

Revolut will test a pound-denominated stablecoin, fully backed by UK reserve assets, designed for:

→ Payments
→ Settlement
→ Crypto trading

This comes at an interesting moment:

• UK sterling stablecoins are worth < $5m today
• US dollar stablecoins exceed $300bn
• The UK wants to finalise its stablecoin framework this year

While Revolut is still awaiting full UK lending approvals and remains limited in deposits during its banking “mobilisation” phase, this sandbox approval signals regulatory trust.

The bigger picture:

The UK clearly doesn’t want to fall behind the US and EU in the stablecoin race.
And Revolut is positioning itself right at the centre of that shift.

If this goes live, it could be one of the first serious attempts at a mainstream GBP stablecoin inside a regulated FinTech ecosystem.

Source/more info: https://lnkd.in/duYCYtjN

My Question for you:

Do you think sterling stablecoins can realistically compete with digital dollars, or will USD dominance remain untouchable?

Stripe Strategy Map 👇

Stripe’s latest strategy signals one thing clearly: 

They’re positioning themselves as the financial operating system of the next economy.

If you connect the dots, this is what I see unfolding in 2026:

→ M&A remains core to the playbook.

Further acquisitions to tighten control over the full financial stack feel inevitable.

On that note, check out the latest rumor about Stripe potentially acquiring PayPal 🤯 https://lnkd.in/dHpMX7UM

→ Crypto infrastructure goes default.

The $1.1B Bridge deal plus the Tempo blockchain launch put Stripe at the center of stablecoins moving from niche to primary rails, especially for AI-driven transactions.

→ Agentic commerce accelerates.

Partnerships with Salesforce, OpenAI, and Anthropic position Stripe as the payment backbone for autonomous AI activity.

📷 Source: CB Insights


If Stripe continues this trajectory, 2026 could become the most important M&A year in payments history.

Who’s next on their shopping list?

Thoughts?

Africa has 12 companies valued at $1B 🦄 or more, and 8 of these 12 are FinTech companies 🤯

Here's the full list of African FinTech unicorns:

2. Flutterwave — $5.2B, 🇳🇬 — Payments infrastructure for businesses across Africa

3. OPay — $2.8B, 🇳🇬 — Mobile payments and financial services, backed by Opera/Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd (SZ:300418)

4. Wave Mobile Money — $1.7B, 🇸🇳 — Mobile money platform for West Africa, competing with telco wallets

5. Tyme — $1.5B, 🇿🇦 — Digital bank operating in South Africa and Philippines, backed by Nubank

7. Fawry — $1.4B, 🇪🇬 — Egypt's largest electronic payments platform, Cairo-listed

10. Interswitch Group — $1.0B, 🇳🇬 — Payment switching and processing infrastructure

11. MNT-Halan — $1.0B, 🇪🇬 — Fintech super-app for lending, payments, and e-commerce for the unbanked

12. Moniepoint Group — $1.0B, 🇳🇬 — All-in-one payments and business banking platform, profitable at scale

📷 Source: Multiples.vc


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👀 A mobile payments was successfully sent from a user of 🇪🇸 Spain’s Bizum to a BLIK user at 🇵🇱 PKO Bank Polski, further proving that European 🇪🇺 mobile payment systems can work seamlessly together.

Each such transfer brings us closer to full interoperability across Europe, building a solid foundation for a truly integrated digital payments market.

"The first phone-to-phone transfer from Spain to Poland is a milestone on the path to making interoperability between European systems a standard. Further tests and the expansion of partnerships are intended to bring us closer to the moment when a cross-border phone-number transfer will be as simple as a local P2P transaction – something nearly 450 million Europeans are waiting for" - says Dariusz Mazurkiewicz, CEO of BLIK.

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🚨𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Revolut enters the Global 500 for the first time, and is the fastest-growing brand on the list, with Brand Finance valuing its brand at $6.6 billion, up 239% year-over-year 🤯

Apple retains its position as the world’s most valuable brand with a 6% brand value growth to USD607.6 billion. 

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🤯 The hard reality: two American companies process the vast majority of Europe’s 🇪🇺 card transactions 👇

The CEO of the European Payments Initiative (EPI Company) Wero, Martina Weimert, just “urgently” called in the FT for European alternatives to the dominant card schemes: https://lnkd.in/dNaiQ_P4

Let’s look at the numbers (📷 below👇).

In C2B card transactions across Europe, the overwhelming share runs on the rails of:

👉 Mastercard
👉 Visa

And that doesn’t even include co-branded cards 🤯

The ambition is clear.

The real challenge?

Building enough scale and merchant acceptance to rival networks that have compounded for 50+ years.

In payments, network effects are brutal.

Do you think Europe can realistically build a third global scheme?


📷 Source: Raynor de Best

🚨 Mastercard and MetaMask have officially launched the MetaMask Card.

I really like how this looks. What do you think? 

150M+ merchants.
Apple Pay & Google Pay compatible.
Full self-custody until the moment of payment.

Issued via Cross River Bank and powered by Mastercard’s global rails, this is crypto spending without pre-loading an exchange.

And there’s a $199/year Metal version with 3% cashback.

Would you use it?


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The Public FinTech Companies ranking by Performance this week 📈📉 

Here are the big movers of the week: 

🏦 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗽

At the top, little changes.

Visa ($610.2B, -0.25%) remains the largest publicly listed FinTech company globally. 

Mastercard ($461.3B, -0.85%) follows, with American Express ($212.1B, -10.77%) maintaining third position despite a sharp weekly decline.

Nubank ($72.6B, -14.55%) holds fourth place but recorded one of the steepest drops among large-cap names. 

Robinhood ($68.3B, -1.65%) and Coinbase ($46.4B, +2.21%) continue to anchor the crypto-exposed segment.

Block ($38.4B, +19.33%) climbs in attention if not yet in ranking, delivering one of the strongest weekly gains in the entire FinTech universe. 

Adyen ($37.1B, -0.30%), Fiserv ($33.3B, +1.30%) and FIS ($26.2B, +3.06%) posted relatively modest movements.

Circle ($19.6B, +30.03%) stands out as the week’s strongest performer, despite ranking 14th by market cap.

📉 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗯𝘆 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

Performance rankings tell a different story than market cap.

Circle leads the week (+30.03%), followed by Block (+19.33%) and Worldline (+16.94%). 

Nexi (+12.79%), PayPal (+10.70%) and PicPay (+10.19%) also posted double-digit gains.

The concentration of top performers in payments infrastructure and crypto-linked companies suggests renewed investor appetite for operational leverage and exposure to digital asset flows.

At the bottom of the ranking, Nubank (-14.55%) recorded the weakest weekly performance among major players. 

American Express (-10.77%), Marqeta (-10.07%) and Bakkt (-9.98%) also closed the week significantly lower.

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👀 Apple is finally coming for 🇮🇳 India’s payments market.

And this is bigger than it looks.

According to Bloomberg (https://lnkd.in/dQ5EWHg8), Apple Inc. is in talks with:

• ICICI Bank Ltd.
• HDFC Bank Ltd.
• Axis Bank Ltd.
• Mastercard Inc.
• Visa Inc.

To launch Apple Pay in India around mid-2026.

But here’s the real strategic twist:

Apple Pay in India is expected to support:

→ Card payments
→ AND India’s state-backed UPI (Unified Payments Interface)

That’s critical.

India is not a card-first market.

It’s a UPI-first market.

National Payments Corporation of India built a real-time, bank-to-bank system that dominates digital payments across 750M+ smartphone users.

If Apple integrates UPI properly, this isn’t just a wallet launch.

It’s Apple embedding itself directly into the rails of the world’s fastest-growing digital payments ecosystem.

The big question is:

Will Apple become a meaningful payments player in a UPI-dominated market?

Or will it remain a premium-layer experience for the top 10% of users?

India might be the most important services battleground for Apple this decade.


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Revolut is once again the fastest-growing banking brand globally. 
Its brand value has more than tripled (+239%) to USD6.6 billion in 2026, following almost eightfold growth the year before 🤯

Chinese megabanks - led by ICBC (Asia) , which has held the title of the world’s most valuable banking brand for a decade, continue to dominate the global top 10. 

U.S. giants also maintain a strong presence among the top 10, including Bank of America and Chase in fifth and sixth place respectively, reinforcing the scale of the American banking sector. 

The UK’s HSBC remains the most valuable banking brand in the UK, and in wider Europe, a position it has held for more than a decade, and has re-entered the world’s top 10 most valuable banking brands for the first time since 2019. 

With a brand value of USD33.7 billion in 2026, its rise reflects a strong valuation base and strategic repositioning, including disinvestments in non-core markets to sharpen focus on key regions like Hong Kong, the UK, and wider APAC. 

Source: Brand Finance


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My top 10 FinTech News Updates you don't want to miss today.

I’ve sourced and listed the most important FinTech news so you don't have to:

1️⃣- Revolut and PayPal Pass on St. Maarten… And That Says a Lot

2️⃣- Top Banking Trends 2026: The Ultimate List of Innovations by DashDevs LLC

3️⃣- Social Engineering: Solving the Most Difficult Fraud Challenge with André F., CEO and Co-Founder of Incognia

4️⃣- Prudential Bank Ghana and Mastercard Deepen Ties to Drive Ghana’s Digital Payment Growth

5️⃣- DANA Indonesia Eyes IPO on Indonesia Stock Exchange

6️⃣- ZEN.COM Grows Globally without Chasing Super-App Status

7️⃣- WafR Raises USD 4M Seed to Scale Embedded Retail Finance in Morocco

8️⃣- Inscope Nabs $14.5M to Solve the Pain of Financial Reporting

9️⃣- Hyperliquid Web3 'SuperApp' Based Raises $11.5 Million Series A

🔟- Crowdcube and London Stock Exchange Group Launch First Offer Via a TPEIC

Read the complete newsletter for more news updates, insights, and the best #fintechreport below👇

This newsletter also includes: Igor Tomych, Alin Becheanu, CFE, CAMS, ING, Sune Gabelgård, EPI Company, OakNorth, Gergely Zaborszky, Pine Labs, Shalini Pillai Banerjee, FIS, Monzo Bank, Binance, BNP Paribas, Crypto.com, Kindo, Tillo, Razorpay, superU AI, and more!

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Hey FinTech Fanatic! This morning in Curaçao, I started the day the way I often do lately. Early sun. Coffee outside… A deep scan of the headlines bef

Open article: Revolut and PayPal Pass on St. Maarten… And That Says a Lot by Marcel van Oost • 8 min read

Revolut and PayPal Pass on St. Maarten… And That Says a Lot

Here are the latest Payments News Updates you don't want to miss today.

I’ve sourced and listed the most important Payments news so you don't have to:

1️⃣- PayPal Draws Takeover Interest After 46% Market Cap Slide

2️⃣- 15M-User Neobank Authenticates 92% of Instant Payments Frictionlessly Using Incognia’s Device & Location Intelligence

3️⃣- Prudential Bank Ghana and Mastercard Expand Partnership to Accelerate Ghana’s Digital Payments

4️⃣- Razorpay and superU AI Target Frictionless Commerce Through Agentic Payments

5️⃣- Philippine FinTech BCRemit Expands Remittance Services to 23 Countries

6️⃣- Pine Labs Awarded Multi-Year Contracts by the Top 3 Indian OMCs

7️⃣- Online Payment Platform and SUNMI Partner to Democratise Payment Monetisation for SaaS Platforms across Europe

8️⃣- Kindo Partners with Tillo to Bring Rewards to Childcare Payments

9️⃣- Green Banana BNPLX.io and VR Payment GmbH Partner for BNPL Orchestration

🔟- Visa’s Proposed Deal Rejected by Mexico’s Antitrust Watchdog

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EximPe

B2B Cross Border Fintech for SME Exporters and Importers

In Apr 2022 we launched  India’s first Digital B2B cross border payments

Founder

Various companies in Health, Education and Agriculture

Startup Investor and Advisor

Wooplr.com

India's first social commerce platform

Built wooplr into a global company HQ in Bangalore with operations in Hangzhou, China and 6 other India cities, with over 150+ employees driving a ~$50Mn Annualised GMV run rate. 

Wooplr empowered over 300,000+ resellers to earn by selling products from 2000+ local/global vendors to over 10Mn customers in tier 2/3 cities.

Raised $13Mn+ from key marquee investors from India, Singapore and Japan

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

All things tech; Conceptually designed, architected the early releases

Tech/Product, Co-founder

McAfee

Worked with a cross-functional global team to design several features of McAfee's internet security product - McAfeeSecure.

Responsible for multiple critical components of the product which protected over 80,000 e-commerce/mom and pop websites with 100Mn + daily customer traffic in US/Japan markets, grossing $30Mn in Revenue

Senior Developer, McAfeeSecure

Auto404

While working at McAfee, we built this Non-profit. 
India's first public transport redressal system focused on autos and cabs.Piloted it in Bangalore, used in 29+ cities. Scaled to 50,000 users

Co-founder

Rang De

Volunteering for a Micro-finance organisation. Built Corporate Partnerships and executed Marketing Strategies to raise funding and awareness in Bangalore.

Rang De Bangalore Chapter Volunteer

Integral

FXTrader offers a complete suite of products for real time foreign currency trading for institutional users. It is the preferred currency trading platform for many large global banks, hedge funds and institutional traders with monthly trading volumes of around USD 200 billion. 

Senior Software Engineer, FXTrader

Tavant Technologies

Part of the team developing a product to expedite subprime loan disbursal for the US Market.

Software Engineer

With 20 years of experience in startups, mobile, commerce, social commerce, and fintech, I am the founder of EximPe, a B2B cross border payments and trade finance platform for SME exporters and importers. My mission is to empower SMEs to access global markets, reduce transaction costs, and improve cash flow.

Previously, I was the CEO and co-founder of Wooplr, India's first social commerce platform, which enabled over 300,000 resellers to earn by selling products from 2000+ local and global vendors to over 10 million customers in tier 2/3 cities. I raised $13 million from key marquee investors and built a global team of over 150 employees across eight locations. I also invested and advised various startups in health, education, and agriculture sectors. I am passionate about building for Bharat 2030, leveraging technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to create positive social and economic impact.

Arjun Abraham Zacharia

SUPER POWER OF EXIMPE - A flood of faces. Smiles that wouldn’t fade. Voices slightly louder than usual.

WE ARE TAKING UPI GLOBAL - An RBI PA-CB licence isn’t just a regulatory milestone in cross-border payments. It’s belief, held steady through audits, rewrites, uncertainty, and relentless standards.

What you’re seeing here is a team that chose the hard path of building licensed infrastructure from India to the world.

Domestic had its UPI moment. We’re building ours. Still buzzing. Still grateful.
 
Onwards.

#RBI #CrossBorderPayments #UPI #Fintech #TeamEximPe

Lets go Team EximPe!

Building for 2030 | Building Cross-border fintech | NITK

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