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Flag Duplicate and Corrupt Feed Records

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You're working on a daily financial data pipeline and want a reliable way to catch bad records before they affect reporting or downstream analysis. The feed can contain exact duplicates, near-duplicates, malformed rows, and values that do not match expected business rules.

Question

How would you design an automated process to flag duplicate or corrupt records in a daily financial data feed?