DocuSign Expands European Trust Service Provider Program

Athens Exchange Group, Firmaprofesional, IDNow, Intesa IBM, QuickSign and Swisscom join the DocuSign Global Trust Network

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON and PARIS and FRANKFURT, Germany and AMSTERDAM, July 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- As the EU enacted new measures to ensure that electronic signatures are enforced universally across all member states under the eIDAS regulation today, DocuSign – the global eSignature and Digital Transaction Management (DTM) leader – issued a call for companies to join its new Trust Service Provider (TSP) partner program.

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The news follows DocuSign's launch of its Standards Based Signature suite, a new core part of its DTM platform, a month ago. It means that companies across the EU can work with DocuSign and their preferred local Certificate Authority (CA) or TSP today when implementing eIDAS-compliant eSignature and DTM solutions. And it is part of DocuSign's multi-million dollar 'Invest for Europe' initiative unveiled at DocuSign MOMENTUM '16 London in June.

This initiative is what DocuSign Chairman and CEO Keith Krach recently referred to as the boldest in the company's history. "It encompassed two years of technology breakthroughs, extensive platform development, three global acquisitions, and data centres in Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris," he said.

"DocuSign's investment in Europe seems perfectly timed for the new regulation taking effect in July," said Paul Achleitner, chairman of Deutsche Bank and board member of Daimler and Bayer. "The combination of this new regulation change and the expansion of the DocuSign Global Trust Network will facilitate Europe's digital transformation."

From 1 July, the eIDAS regulation will simplify and standardise eSignatures laws across the EU, and will set clear standards for digital signature technology and electronic identification – all helping to support and promote the EU's vision of a Digital Single Market.

With this in mind, the TSP program brings companies that specialise in electronic ID and digital certificate management services into a European ecosystem to provide the full range of eIDAS-defined signature types through the DocuSign platform – including electronic, advanced and qualified signtuares.

"Business is global, trust is local," says Mark Register, the senior vice-president of business development at DocuSign. "The local Trust Service Providers and Certificate Authorities are essential to enabling the DocuSign Global Trust Network. These partners are able to benefit from the best of both worlds. They gain exposure to more customers and they are able to offer the capabilities of the DocuSign DTM platform."