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  • Tolerance
    ...things and opinions that ''you'' don't like. It does ''not'' mean stopping people who hold opinions you don’t like from expressing them. That's called ''in
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  • Reply-all
    {{a|email|}}A tool for easily distressing an unlimited number of people at once, for [[Thx|insincerely thanking]] them, and increasing the total mi Compound the resentment by addressing adult people many years your senior as “[[@]]andy”.
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  • People Anatomy
    #redirect[[Category:People]]
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  • Ninja
    ...png|}}}}A ''deep'' [[subject matter expert]], in something so arcane these people are a blessèd relief to everyone else in the firm, just as long as you don
    569 bytes (93 words) - 17:20, 21 August 2022
  • Right-sizing
    Firing people. Usually [[subject matter expert]]s.
    106 bytes (13 words) - 11:36, 18 January 2020
  • Breakfast in America
    A pop song sung by, and for, people who usually wind up with the [[Opel bloody Kadett]] in [[Top Trumps]]. Samp ...or that reason, to this very day, Breakfast in America infects millions of people around the world - including yours truly - with the delusional hope that on
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  • Market-maker
    {{a|people|}}One who facilitates trades on an exchange.
    104 bytes (15 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2021
  • Solutionise
    ''Ah, people ask me questions'' <br>
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  • Financial service
    ...is planet has — or rather ''had'' — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were An activity whereby a bunch of people without [[skin in the game]] pass [[Ultimate client|your]] [[money]] back a
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  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
    ...ce)|Authority]]''': We are more susceptible to following instructions from people in a putative position of authority. As to this see the Milgram experiments ...[[sheeple]] — ''they'' are. They will tend to behave in the same way that people in their social group and of their social status behave. Therefore if you c
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  • Operationalisation
    ...ugh not ''actually'' John Cryan, of course, any more.</ref>, and many good people will be disenfranchised and driven up the wall in the meantime.
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  • Proven track record
    {{a|people| ...on “[[proven track record]]” is on a [[Curriculum vitae|CV]], and the only people who have any use for [[CV]]s are looking for work, and if you are looking f
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  • Financial reporting
    {{a|people|}}“Well [[Enron|you know what happened]] ''last time'' someone tried to m
    166 bytes (23 words) - 12:25, 17 September 2021
  • Documentation unit
    {{a|people|}} *'''[[Chief Operating Officer]]''': Who the hell are these people and why do they cost so much? Where are the economies of scale?
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  • Hermione Grainger
    {{a|people|}}An especially effective member of the {{tag|compliance}} department. [[Mu
    186 bytes (26 words) - 10:41, 2 December 2019
  • Schwarzschild radius of institutional ennui
    People on the other side — your friends, loved ones; people who look up to you; whose respect you may once have earned — will see you
    954 bytes (147 words) - 17:07, 11 June 2021
  • Marketing
    {{A|people| }}Not to be confused with [[sales]], [[marketing]] are the people who — very much against every instinct they have ever had — are obliged
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  • Roll call
    ...those confessions will involve long periods of static, punctuated by five people speaking at once, and the convener will be obliged to ask them all to repea ...ld” means those people on the call, and the worse attendance is, the fewer people there are to witness the humiliation.
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  • The Bystander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction
    ...hough controversial — psychological phenomenon: why do good, well-adjusted people who ''could'' intervene to help a person in distress, not always help? ..., when given the opportunity to, don’t?” to the uninteresting one “why are people, and especially young white men, so horrid?” Undeniably true, is neither
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  • Founder and CEO
    {{a|people|}}Got made [[Redundancy|redundant]] after a lifetime clinging on in Operati
    270 bytes (39 words) - 17:06, 17 January 2020
  • Clifford Chance
    {{a|people|}}Magic circle firm. In the “[[extinction]]” camp when it comes to [[li
    205 bytes (32 words) - 15:27, 19 January 2021
  • Salted fish
    People will remember you that way.
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  • Custody chain
    ...esn’t matter. In times of war, of course, as flak rains on your bunker and people are losing their heads, spending the time discovering how a [[custody chain Quite so: given how counter-intuitive it is, people thinking clearly about it ''should'' be confused. The fact that they tend n
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  • You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they are
    ...up other people’s arse, not your own”<br>}}{{shitmaxim|You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they a Even if they don’t, most people still like to be told they’re amazing, however implausible or disingenuou
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  • Followers
    ...able or mildly commendable, you are better off having a high percentage of people disliking you and your message (even intensely), combined with a low percen ...his probably points up the difference between Nigel Farage — who polarises people, but he’s hard to ignore — and whoever the leader of the Liberal Democr
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  • Post-modernism
    Most right-thinking people think it’s the problem. Being a contrarian. I think it’s the solution.
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  • Excuse pre-loader
    {{A|people|}}The footballer who shows up with a “slight hamstring strain”; the wor In their heart of hearts, these people ''know''. You do, too. You will know them instinctively. You recognise them
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  • W. Edwards Deming
    ...one above — Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the # '''Training on the job''': Train people on the job. Encourage people to ''learn'' on the job. ''Encourage self-improvement''
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  • Ground up strategy
    The observation that the people best incentivised to identify improvements to your IT offering are the poor
    335 bytes (48 words) - 14:58, 15 May 2017
  • Buy-side
    ...cut off or the Yaris repossessed — but in practice, if these fabled older people even exist, they are represented in the markets by those rapacious titans o
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  • Diaeresis
    {{def|Diaeresis|/dʌɪˈɪərɪsɪs/|pl. n.|}}(''For use impressing people at dinner parties'') The two dots above a continental [[ï]] (as, for examp
    353 bytes (53 words) - 12:26, 13 December 2020
  • System effect
    ...e office. This is a system effect, and not some conspiracy the man against people who can’t be bothered to commute.
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  • Play School through the arched window: title transfer collateral arrangements
    Don't be so STUPID, people. Do you really think Play School did a sequence on [[title transfer collate
    348 bytes (58 words) - 14:57, 17 April 2018
  • ADR
    *[[Alternative dispute resolution]] — mealy-mouthed time-wasting for people in denial about the legal system
    260 bytes (35 words) - 15:04, 1 November 2019
  • Life coach
    {{a|people|}}{{maxim|Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t ev ...ersion of yourself}} is having a bit of a laugh, and that so many of these people can be routinely engaged by multinational firms ostensibly populated by tho
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  • Stakeholder
    {{a|people| 1. (''Within an organisation''): Fellow [[bureaucrat]]s. Other people in and around the firm who are paid more to care less. The word for the sen
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  • Master of the universe
    {{a|people|}}A coinage of {{author|Tom Wolfe}}’s to describe Sherman McCoy, ace bank
    214 bytes (34 words) - 21:48, 4 February 2021
  • Top Gun Lawyer
    {{a|people|{{image|Top Gun Lawyer|png|A Top Gun Lawyer, yesterday}}}}A real, proper, [
    211 bytes (35 words) - 16:10, 28 September 2022
  • Boy wizard
    {{a|people|}}In the [[Hary Poter]] argot, a young [[lawyer]] — one flush with the jo
    240 bytes (41 words) - 10:40, 2 December 2019
  • Freshfields
    {{a|people|}}A [[magic circle law firm]] headquartered in London, well-loved by its [[
    277 bytes (42 words) - 15:27, 19 January 2021
  • Designated investment - FCA Rulebook Term
    ...ed investment}}<s/small>}}}}In which the {{t|FCA}}, spurred on by the good people of the [[European Commission]], indulge in the four-dimensional Russian dol ...as the term isn’t defined and clearly means different things to different people.
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  • Trading
    {{a|people|}}The hard bastards of finance. Or the [[Lunch money|meek who have inherite
    319 bytes (47 words) - 13:45, 17 December 2020
  • Onworld
    ...].}}}}A massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, which increasingly people are confusing for real life. This is a shame.
    297 bytes (40 words) - 14:06, 9 December 2022
  • Hotel Belvédère
    ...Travelodge Luton Airport? Sure, make it modern, minimalist and chic. Help people forget where they are. Let them injustice they could be literally anywhere ...should not want to be transported somewhere else. Wengen is a destination. People come here because it is one of the beautiful, magnificent places in the wor
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  • Squadsman
    {{a|myth|}}A crack paratrooper of the law. These people are like the Flying Squad, the Green Berets, they are the French Foreign Le
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  • Client
    {{a|people|}}“Hi Olly. The [[client]] returned the draft agreement. They’re fine w
    324 bytes (48 words) - 18:42, 4 April 2020
  • Chief operating officer
    {{a|people|}}The person whose official job description is to know the cost of everythi
    330 bytes (53 words) - 07:52, 17 May 2021
  • Psychological safety
    ...se intellectual friction, reduce social friction. Create environment where people can challenge ideas
    337 bytes (39 words) - 23:47, 13 May 2023
  • CF10A
    {{a|people|{{image|CASS Garb|png|A [[CASS officer]]’s ceremonial Mithril garb.}}}}Th ...0A]] is next-least coveted position in the organisation, and is awarded to people the same way Joe Pesci became a “made guy” in ''Goodfellas''.
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  • Furnishing
    For most people, the ugly ''chaise-longue'' you were emotionally blackmailed into acquiring
    498 bytes (75 words) - 11:36, 18 January 2020
  • Flexible working
    ...rporation is a social (if not to say ''[[socialist]]'') institution, where people are compensated for unwavering commitment, blood, sweat and tears.
    359 bytes (56 words) - 11:36, 18 January 2020
  • I don't disagree with you
    Closely related expression, courtesy of those wonderful [[Game of Thrones]] people:
    440 bytes (67 words) - 09:32, 27 September 2019
  • Dog-and-pony show
    ...ized corporate organisation. Also, on account of its capacity for creating people who inhabit that layer, the process of obtaining a [[MBA|Masters of Busines
    305 bytes (48 words) - 09:26, 30 December 2020
  • Arthur Andersen
    {{a|people|}}A cautionary tale. The great [[falsification]] of [[Chicken Licken]]: som
    373 bytes (55 words) - 19:45, 18 March 2021
  • (but need not)
    That is, people ''who should not be [[professional writer]]s''.
    395 bytes (59 words) - 09:07, 17 December 2022
  • The Jolly Contrarian:General disclaimer
    ===For regular people=== ...uff up, so (a) if you find the site valuable, tell your friends — the more people who use it the more chance I have of making something out of it one day —
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  • Chief financial officer
    {{a|people|}}Ideally a stable, steady, dull individual who, in his most passionate mom
    435 bytes (68 words) - 12:28, 17 September 2021
  • It’s not a fucking competition
    {{a|maxim|}}There are ''eight billion'' people in the world. if you think you are in a competition with them, ''you will l Only people who are in a competition try to be like someone else. So don’t be in. Com
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  • Silver circle law firm
    {{a|people|}}A [[law firm]], like [[Simmons & Simmons]], with an aching yen to be [[Ma
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  • ***TOP URGENT***
    ...is, in the subject line, is guaranteed to make every one of the thirty six people to whom you have sent it, drop everything and read your email.
    403 bytes (66 words) - 18:33, 29 December 2020
  • Joint and several liability
    ...aw should be at her side. That her loss is recoverable from a ''bunch'' of people, rather than just one, ought to be a good thing, and will allow her to proc ...as encountered it, he has mainly wished it prevailed more often. Like most people he has
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  • Omnibus
    Means different things to different people.
    399 bytes (55 words) - 11:36, 18 January 2020
  • Meeting avoidance tactics
    ...ogical barriers to candid communication: who calls bullshit in front of 40 people? So do your bit to keep the meeting tight and effective: ...space and time. They impose a boundary within which you must concentrate. People can see you; they know if you tune out. Switch off your phone. Don’t mult
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  • Diver
    {{A|people|}}One who on the merest suggestion of a contact, however benign, will go do
    411 bytes (68 words) - 16:52, 13 November 2020
  • Internal Revenue Code of 1986
    ...ax lawyer|Those who pay them fealty]] tend to be nervy, fractious sorts of people.
    459 bytes (72 words) - 11:36, 18 January 2020
  • Risk controller
    People in these departments: These poor people are the wrong side of an asymmetric option: no [[risk controller]] ever got
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  • Opco
    *An [[operating committee]] a vehicle by which dozen s of people gather to stare at weighty [[PowerPoint]] decks and “socialise” — mea
    401 bytes (59 words) - 05:47, 2 June 2021
  • Stupidity
    * Stupid people are ''worse'' that bandits. At least ''someone'' derives a benefit from ban * We systematically underestimate how many stupid people there are.
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  • Council
    ...ncilium'', the {{tag|Latin}} word for an assembly or convocation of clever people: ''con-'' (‘together’) + ''calare'' (‘to summon’). <br> 1. A municipal body where mediocre people make bad decisions about local affairs. <br>
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  • Passive
    ...ere is what Dr. Eva Dabrowska, of Northumbria University, has to say about people who overuse the passive tense: {{quote|“''Our results show that a proportion of people with low educational attainment make errors with understanding the passive,
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  • Commercial contract
    ...der the [[Sovereign Immunity Act 1978]], [[sovereign]]s being the sorts of people that don’t always do things for commercial, practical, sensible or even c
    391 bytes (63 words) - 16:32, 23 July 2019
  • Certification
    ...effectively destroyed or put beyond practical use will send normally sober people scuttling for exits, leaping into laundry baskets, planking, and painting t
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  • Law firm
    {{a|people|}}Issuer of [[legal opinions]], supplier of [[inhouse counsel]], pliers of
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  • Gumizzler
    ...]] is a “[[jimsler]]” man, though he holds nothing against “[[gumizzler]]” people. </ref> — of enunciating “[[GMSLA]]”, the abbreviation for the {{gms
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  • Statue of limitations
    As the marble hunks fell like great meteors into the sea around them the people cried, “hark! [[Chicken licken|The sky is falling upon our heads]]!” In a final irony, none of the people responsible for either the commissioning of the sculpture, its [[negligent]
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  • Multi-task
    ...Middle-management]] jargon which means to “browse the internet”. What most people do during most [[all-hands conference call]]s and the brazen do during [[me
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  • Homo economicus
    ...[[reasonable man]], and (in tendency to suggest the collective madness of people who should really know better) the [[hypothetical broker dealer]].
    535 bytes (77 words) - 09:56, 21 March 2020
  • Control function
    {{a|people|}}The sainted people who, because they are paid purely to worry themselves about [[Chicken Licke
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  • MF Global
    {{a|people|}}“Never forget [[MF Global]]”: a [[magic incantation]] of similar effe
    531 bytes (75 words) - 23:28, 8 February 2021
  • Compliance
    {{a|people|}}{{d|Compliance officer|/kəmˈplaɪəns ˈɒfɪsə/|n|}}
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  • Results-driven
    ...every application of force to object, however ill-advised, we wonder what people think they are establishing by claiming to be “results-driven”. ...e impact on the world, good or ill — in fairness, that’s a great number of people — then you might want to put something a little more specific in your pro
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  • Communication
    ...e law, but to be able to plainly and clearly communicate that expertise to people who are not. Those people are called “[[clients]]”. Clients — even sophisticated ones — [[Q.E
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  • Calculation period
    ...for example, an [[interest period]]. Of great [[interest]] to the sorts of people who find [[calculation period]]s ''interesting''<ref>There's a fairly weak
    566 bytes (80 words) - 09:02, 24 September 2019
  • Assignment
    ...obligation is to the assignee and not the assignor. This can give certain people the hives, as regards [[AML]] and so on. ...te common to see [[broker]] and service provider contracts refusing to let people assign their rights, at least, not without consent. It isn’t clear why an
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  • ISDA ingénue
    ...re all, in our way, [[ISDA ingénues]], but really the term is reserved for people that might not know you ''never'' say “[[eye-ess-dee-aye]]” and most ce
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  • Introducing broker
    {{a|people|}}The financial services equivalent of one of those bossy friends who is al
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  • Serious people
    ...s people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” ...reat delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading
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  • Rubbish maxims
    *{{shitmaxim|You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they a ...appreciate those who lift you up. Be a lifter}} — or, be the one who lets people down and have an equal impact.
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  • Dewey decimal system
    ...Lehmans]]''. Well, it ''was'', any rate. Who knew that an online store for people living off the grid would outlive a Wall Street behemoth?</ref>.
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  • SICAF
    ...xe]]'' is a [[closed-ended]] [[collective investment scheme]] popular with people who speak French. To be compared with a [[société d’investissement à c
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  • Spans and layers
    ...r that McKinsey (38,000 staff),<ref>[https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/how-to-identify-the-right-spans ...a half-hearted commitment to a maximum span of five, from the consultancy “People Puzzles”. Why? Apparently, ''To make performance appraisal easier''. This
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  • Cricket
    ...t simply as a game played between spells of rain over a period of weeks by people wearing old fashioned tennis gear, are prone to writing it off as utterly [
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  • Hooker
    ...ty, such as [[hedge fund]] managers. This goes some way to explaining what people on the left find so contemptuous about the financial services industry.
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  • Muggle eagles
    {{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] unpossessed of any ninjery and unschooled in the ways o
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  • Heroes don’t wear capes
    ...hey don’t seek validation when heroism comes their way, either. Only needy people need [[awards|validation]].
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  • All-hands conference call
    ...her five minutes to allow people to join”.]]}}The notion that gathering 17 people around the world to stop what they’re doing and listen to someone run thr ...g words in the English language, there are THIRTY NINE, all fairly senior, people invited to this call. In other words, a full working week of your organisat
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  • The Wealth of Nations
    ...any still do, with, “assuming we all pull together for the common good and people aren’t selfish...”
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  • Administrator
    {{a|work|}}{{dpn|/ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtə/|n|}}One of that class of people who are not [[subject matter expert]]s, don’t understand the [[territory]
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  • Service delivery
    {{a|people| [[Service delivery]] people have thus two principle means of progression in the organisation: either th
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  • Head of the documentation unit
    {{a|people|{{image|Dead man walking|jpg|The [[head of the documentation unit]] yesterd ...t]]. It is an opportunity for advancement, you see: managing three hundred people, in six centres across seven time zones, with a chance to overhaul a broken
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