So, 7 / 15  BIS central bankers' speeches  think of that as Bangladesh. That the messenger, who the person is who’s transmitting the payment, this is SWIFT, is secure. And the receiver. So in this case, the New York Fed is secure. That goes for anybody who is executing payments. It doesn’t have to be Bangladesh, through the SWIFT, to the New York Fed. It’s anybody executing a payment through any payment medium to any receiver. The thing that we’re trying to work on internationally is to try to make sure that everyone understands their responsibilities in that chain. So, it’s really important that the person executing the payment, that their facilities are secured. What seemed to be the case in the Bangladesh situation was their facilities were not secured, so someone executed a payment that looked completely authentic through the SWIFT pipes to the New York Fed. It was an authentic payment – it looked like an authentic payment when we executed on some of those payments – not all of those payments. So, we need to make sure that that first leg is buttoned up, and also we need to make sure that everyone understands their responsibility along that chain. So, this is something that we take very seriously. We’re working also with the institutions that we interact with.
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