Esignoff

No “October Surprises” at Our Optimize! FinTech Conference (Just Great Insights from Amazing Customers) We at Tech Essentials realize this has been a doozy of a week in terms of news—mostly political and mostly bad. For those who needed a respite from Tuesday’s chaotic debate and the torrent of election-focused headlines, we offered a live virtual conference yesterday that highlighted how customers are using RPost’s RMail and RSign products to optimize financial proce [...]

Secret to Workplace Bliss (eSign Bliss) It is easy to fall into a workplace routine; you know how to get something done and your process works. Eventually you look to train others to use the shortcuts and process that you have found works, happy to hand off the tasks to another. Mission accomplished. Too often, with technology tools, tips and tricks, once the new modernized process has been institutionalized, no one looks back to improve or optimiz [...]

The eSign Revolution and its Evolution Impressions of eSignatures today still depend on who you ask. Many users report eSignatures today as “a life saver”, but some still think of eSignature services as “scary to use” or “simply not trustworthy”. What a contrast, depending on who you ask and what services people have been exposed to. In RPost’s recent customer survey with more than 2,000 corporate respondents, the comment that seemed to sum up the ove [...]

Electronic signature technology is already the industry standard for executing business contracts in almost every industry. Professionals in real estate, legal services, investment management and insurance, particularly, have adopted use of this technology to transact efficiently. As eSignatures have now reached mainstream levels of adoption, where does the technology go from here? Business Process Automation By now, almost every working professional underst [...]

Much of the uncertainty as to the legality of electronically signed contracts has dissipated over the last decade and a half — through definitions in the broad state (UETA) and Federal (ESIGN) statutes, and through practice by the first few waves of adopters. Today, eSignature services are widely used by professionals within financial services, insurance, real estate, legal services, and other industries. Most business professionals are now aware that [...]

eSignature technology offers much more than just the ability to get a document signed remotely. eSignature technology also provides businesses with the opportunity to completely reinvigorate decades-old business processes, enhance productivity, and automate mundane work flows. Are eSignatures legal? US ESIGN law states, in short, that a legal eSignature is a sound, symbol, or mark, made with intent to sign. In short, yes. Will an eSigned document be admissible in court? C [...]

People use eSignatures every day without even realizing they’re “eSigning” — signing on an electronic signature pad at grocery store check-out, replying to an email with a typed confirmation of terms, or putting in a PIN code for a debit card transaction, for example. Most people have no doubts about the legality of these everyday “eSign” transactions. Yet, according to a member poll of the International Association of Commercial and Contract Managers (IACCM), 71% o [...]

You may remember the 2012 LinkedIn data breach, in which 6.5 million LinkedIn user accounts were believed to have been compromised. According to BBC and LinkedIn itself, the number of affected LinkedIn users from that 2012 data breach could actually be upwards of 100 million, or the majority of the 165 million users LinkedIn had in 2012. The shocking enormity of this data breach is attracting many security analysts to scrutinize the breach itself. One secur [...]

Texas State Bar has partnered with RPost to educate attorney members on how, when, and why to use RMail® services to track opening, record certified e-delivery proof, encrypt for client privacy, and send declarations for eSignoff. Powered by RPost’s Registered Email technology, RMail has been very popular among legal service professionals. Recently, more than 100 Florida-based law firms ins [...]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published guidance for compliance with specific regulations in 21 CFR Part 11. This guidance is intended to describe the FDA’s current thinking regarding the scope and application of part 11 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations; Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures (21 CFR Part 11). RPost’s Registered Email™ service supports compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 with regard to preserving a time-stamped audit trail and a [...]