Electronic Signature Legality for Financial Services in United States

How to eSign a document: electronic signature legality for Financial Services in United States

[Music] throughout the European Union every electronic signature is governed by the Adis regulation which recognizes three types of electronic signatures basic electronic signatures Advanced electronic signatures and our Focus today qualified electronic signatures or qes simply put a qualified electronic signature is an e signature that is backed by a validated digital certificate and this certific certificate identifies the signer and protects the document against tampering or forgery it's important to understand that qes is the only e signature type with the same legal standing as handwritten signatures in the EU qualified signatures are ideal for crossb transactions and agreements such as employment contracts mortgages and Loans tenders and other corporate and government documents so how does it work a qes requires the signer's identity to be verified either face Toof face or through ID verification in other words every time you send a document out for Signature your recipient is asked to verify their identity with a valid government issued ID at the same time a digital certificate proving their identity is automatically generated and attached to the signature behind the scenes a qualified electronic signature enables sign now users to collect e signatures in the most secure format available we're partnering with qualified trust service providers around the world to enable our customers and their signers to validate and sign documents from anywhere try it out for yourself at sign now.com