Traditionally, businesses print, sign, and courier documents by postal mail for a counterparty to sign. Later, with the advent of the internet, it slowly got changed to print, sign, scan, and sent to a counterparty for signature for them to do the same. But now, businesses are looking for time-saving and efficiency with customer satisfaction. The emergence of eSignature has helped businesses to achieve this and turnaround document signature in minutes across geographies. Electronic commerce thrives due to eSignature innovation. Companies can address top challenges through the adoption of eSig

Traditionally manuscript signature performed the function of either authenticating something or accepting something in simple terms. An example of authentication is signing a cheque to authorize payment to a payee. An example of accepting is signifying that one has read, understood, and accept the content as written by appending their manual signature. When one signs manually in isolation, the only way of personal authentication is to compare the unique way the person usually used to sign and satisfy ourselves that she is whom she claims she is. However, that is not so foolproof to guarantee

UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce, published by United Nations in 1996, was one of the most influential pieces of legislation that triggered the wave of development of electronic signature laws around the world including the United States. Most countries based their electronic signature laws on the UN model code. It was for the first time that UN model code equated an electronic signature to manuscript signature and evolved all the functional dynamics for equivalence towards cross-border trade enablement. We grew from telegram to fax machines to email to e-signatures now.

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One’s signature is an essential legal asset that one possesses. The act of putting one’s signature creates quite a legal effect. The legality of a manuscript signature has slowly changed to accepting electronic signatures by amendments to various laws in each country. The electronic signature takes two forms of signature, one known as an electronic signature and the other known as a digital signature. In every country, both systems of signature exist. The choice of either is made depending on purpose, legality, and convenience.

What is an electronic signature?
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Across globe organizations (be it a start-up, small and medium organization or a large enterprise) are working remote. Despite many challenges, considering the “New Normal” the entire value chain (employees, owners, stake holders, suppliers, vendors, customers, etc) is collaborating online to accomplish tasks to meet business priorities & demand. Signing of business document is one of the critical tasks across all sorts of organizations.

Considering the remote working scenario, document signing activity is relatively delayed due to lack of required infrastructure (print & scan devices) at

What is a signature?
Laws of most countries have not defined “signature” in any of their dealing laws. With the widespread use of electronic communications, it may be worthwhile to understand what constitutes a valid signature. The manuscript signature provided evidence on three counts;

a) Identity of the signatory;
b) Intention to make a manuscript signature
c) Adoption of the content of the document

Electronic Signature
Electronic signature laws across the countries have been enacted on the same three premises listed above. So long as signature technology produces acceptable evide