In this context, the Group operated in pursuit of the objective of maintaining an adequate balancing of the maturities of the asset and liability items, correlating the loans to consistent sources of funding in terms of duration and repayment method and taking into account the needs to refinance of the current debt structure and the corporate operating methods and, to identify the optimum mix of the sources of funding between fixed and floating rate, within the sphere of a prudent strategy towards rate fluctuation risk.