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A two-sided sequence $(cₙ)_{n∈ℤ}$ with values in a complex unital Banach algebra is a cosine sequence if it satisfies $c_{n+m} + c_{n-m} = 2cₙcₘ$ for any n,m ∈ ℤ with c₀ equal to the unity of the algebra. A cosine sequence $(cₙ)_{n∈ℤ}$ is bounded if $sup_{n∈ℤ} ||cₙ|| < ∞$. A (bounded) group decomposition for a cosine sequence $c = (cₙ)_{n∈ℤ}$ is a representation of c as $cₙ = (bⁿ+b^{-n})/2$ for every n ∈ ℤ, where b is an invertible element of the algebra (satisfying $sup_{n∈ℤ} ||bⁿ|| < ∞$, respectively). It is known that every bounded cosine sequence possesses a universally defined group decomposition, the so-called standard group decomposition. Here it is shown that if X is a complex UMD Banach space and, with 𝓛(X) denoting the algebra of all bounded linear operators on X, if c is an 𝓛(X)-valued bounded cosine sequence, then the standard group decomposition of c is bounded.