Electronic signatures have been considered legal in the United States since 2000. But financial advisers also have to worry about complex compliance issues. Broker-dealers thinking of adopting electronic signatures need to ensure that the technology they choose is SEC/FINRA compliant.
Legal departments will readily admit they’re not necessarily the most neoteric group on the “cutting edge” of technology, but as more and more companies are successfully implementing contract management systems, the paradigm is beginning to shift, with Legal often leading the charge for increasing efficiency in managing contracts.
LicenseHQ is contract and compliance management software designed to ensure that users remain compliant with federal standards for all operations and licenses. For the area of inspections, the program tracks each inspection throughout its lifecycle.
Complying with Stark Law is critical to day-to-day operations of a healthcare facility, and contract management software helps ensure that all requirements are met.
One of the first questions we get from business owners that call us is: “How much do electronic signatures cost?” It’s a tough question to answer because a lot of factors affect price in the electronic signature services industry, but I’ll do my best to explain how it works.
There are a lot of different types of electronic signatures out there, and it can be confusing to figure out the differences between them. Today we’re going to tackle the differences between digitized signatures and digital signatures.
If you’ve decided to implement a contract lifecycle management (CLM) system in 2013, it’s important to take steps now to ensure system adoption and control project costs—because nothing is worse than implementing a contract management system (or any new system) and having no one use it.
Many people are reluctant to use e-signature technology because they’re afraid that signatures created online aren’t legal. The truth is that e-signatures are just as legally binding as handwritten signatures. But that doesn’t mean that all e-signature products are on an equal footing when a signature is challenged in court.
Top contract management solutions (CLM) promotes high levels of sales efficiency and frees the sales team up from monotonous busy-work.
For most people who enter into contracts on a daily basis, the terms “electronic signature” and “digital signature” seem like the same thing. From a legal and technical perspective, however, an electronic signature and a digital signature are two very different forms of agreeing to a contract.