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…From a policy perspective, if you were in charge, if you were running, I don’t know, USDA—both your parents worked for USDA—what would you be waving your magic wand to do? Oh, interesting. I think there’s actually two. One of them is outside the USDA. One of them is within the USDA. I’m really interested in a lot of the stuff that’s happening with open banking regulations. I think actually the cost to a lot of what we’re seeing or doing is the lack of—accounting software is just an attempt—all we are doing is trying to get external data sources in and make them all make sense. And what we were talking about with the metadata and all that before, there’s so much information that could actually be really helpful for our customers that is not being shared or is really expensive and difficult to get. That is something that I am super interested in how things are developing there. So you’re saying concretely there—in many countries it is mandated that banks provide structured access to financial data for their customers. They say it’s the customer’s own data, banks have to give it on request and in API formats and things like this. It’s actually a very live topic in the US right now, and there’s lots of debates over this rule 1033 and things like this. But you’re saying it would be very useful for Ambrook to have some open banking mandates where you guys can reliably get data in a sensible format?…

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