From the transcript

And I also wanted to go back to your earlier question and say that we have a vault where we keep the signatures on file and we prioritize maintaining current signatures but also our own, because they're wet signatures. People just don't sign the same on electronic pads. That's just something that we've noticed over the years, and, and since we've implemented the database, the number of signature— no signature matches has decreased.

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