SIGNiX, a Chattanooga-based digital signature company, celebrated a milestone last week when its technology was used to facilitate the first ever remote, digitally notarized deed in the United States.
An American couple living in France used SIGNiX digital signatures and web conferencing to notarize a property deed in Virginia with the Circuit Court of Alexandria.
“With this e-notary process, our customers had their documents notarized while they sat in their home in France,” said Timothy Reiniger, the cyber notary for the transaction and the CEO of Trustmark Certification Services. “This eliminated the need for them to travel all the way to the American embassy in Paris, which would have been a full day trip.”
The Commonwealth of Virginia is the first and only state in the country to authorize this method of online e-notarization, which allows signers to get documents instantly notarized by a Virginia notary from anywhere in the world.
SIGNiX’s technology is being utilized by Trustmark Certification Services to apply digital signatures and an electronic notary seal to e-notarized documents in compliance with Virginia’s legislation.
“Customers expect to be able to do business instantly online, and the demand for cloud-based tools like digital signatures is exploding,” said Jay Jumper, president and CEO of SIGNiX. “We can’t wait for more clients to jump on board and experience this for themselves.”
SIGNiX not only uses standards-based digital signatures that protect the document from tampering, it also offers TotalAudit, a detailed record of the signature and notary process itself. In addition, SIGNiX enables multi-factor authentication options like knowledge-based authentication to positively verify the identity of the signers.
Source: SIGNiX