E-signatures are changing the way the regulated sectors protect the integrity of the signing process, according to a Thematic Intelligence analysis from GlobalData published by Verdict. As many as 88 percent of the top 100 firms have invested in e-signatures.
In the UK and EU e-signatures are legally equivalent to wet ink signatures as a result of the EU’s eIDAS regulation, while the E-SIGN Act and Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) accomplishes the same in the U.S. eIDAS regulation establishes Simple (SES), Advanced (AES), and Qualified (QES) Electronic Signatures, with QES offering the highest level of security.
