SER Bulletin – Digital Signatures
Andrew Palmer, 22 October 2024
SER BULLETIN: DIGITAL SIGNATURES. Due to an increased focus on compliance, fraud regulations and “Know you customer” laws, there has been a review of digital signing by our funding panel. This has resulted in Digital Signatures (outside of Docusign via Finance Oxygen) and the use of an email trail for digitally signed documents to be deemed no longer acceptable. This is due to concerns and recent examples where contracts are not enforceable in a court of law, as these email trails are not secure and are difficult to be authenticated.