Innovative new partnership sees LEIs encapsulated in digital signing applications.
South Africa-based customer communications company, PBSA, and UK-based Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) innovator, RapidLEI, today announced a strategic partnership that will see PBSA become a regional Registration Agent (RA) for RapidLEI as well as build LEI support into its signing solutions.
RapidLEI was launched in 2018 by Ubisecure and has been taking the world by storm through a growing network of global partners, with PBSA representing the next stage in this continued expansion. RapidLEI’s pioneering automatic LEI issuance process sees it reduced from a few days to a few minutes. With regulation mandating the use of LEIs and new use cases now benefitting from the identity assurance LEIs can offer, this G20-endorsed organisation identifier is already achieving mass adoption and shows no sign of slowing down.
PBSA, as a RapidLEI Registration Agent, will meet client demand for LEIs in South Africa, as well as offering LEIs in other regions they are expanding to, such as Europe and the USA, via their SigniFlow brand.
The RapidLEI solution makes LEIs available through a SaaS service or API. The API allows third party developers to build same-session LEI issuance into their applications, which will be used to its full extent by PBSA in the first stage of this collaboration. While strong identities like BankID & eID are beginning to be used to digitally sign documents, this new partnership adds organisational identity to the digital seal in the form of an LEI. Encapsulating the LEI in the company seal gives the other party the opportunity to check identities against a live global company database – verifying which company signed this document, and also their parent company/group structure.
After this initial phase of the partnership, PBSA and Ubisecure plan to collaborate further on additional pioneering identity assurance solutions. Ubisecure will be launching new services in the coming weeks, where LEIs are central to new organisation Identity Provider (IdP) solutions for advanced KYC (Know your Customer) and RtX (Right to Represent). These cutting-edge services will help enterprises to reduce fraud, lower compliance costs and create new products using verified organisation identities.
Leon Van Der Merwe, Director at PBSA, says “We’re very excited to bring Ubisecure’s pioneering approach to digital identity to the South African market and beyond, and have our global customers benefit from strong organisation identities offered by our signing solutions. Our long-held ideals of collaboration, integrity and accountability go hand in hand with what the LEI stands for – trust in who you’re doing business with.”
Paul Tourret, Corporate Development Officer at RapidLEI, says “We are incredibly honoured to be collaborating with the largest South African signing/workflow provider to connect the LEI ecosystem to the signing ecosystem, and we see a lot of potential to further enhance online trust with LEIs and the Ubisecure IdP services as we connect the various ecosystems together. We see this collaboration being the start of a dramatic shift in how LEIs are used in modern digital transactions.”
Find out more about LEIs at www.rapidlei.com, or get in touch now.
About PBSA
With a rich history of innovation dating back over 90 years, PBSA (formerly Pitney Bowes SA) is a leading customer communications company, offering software, equipment and services to help companies improve operational efficiencies and connect with their customers in more meaningful ways.
Based in Midrand, Gauteng, PBSA understands both hardware and software solutions and is optimally positioned to provide a secure, committed support infrastructure to its international customer base. The company’s solutions help companies engage customers, gain business insight, manage document workflow and ultimately optimise overall business performance.
Visit www.pbsa.co.za to learn more.
PBSA LEI: 984500S5591EMD8BCB56
About SigniFlow
Created in South Africa by a team of passionate Johannesburg-based IT minds, SigniFlow is a core workflow, digital document management and cryptographic digital signature engine that works, either on its own, or fully integrated with existing core business systems.
SigniFlow uses the most advanced and trusted digital signature technologies known to man, enabling powerful workflow functionality and ease of document distribution to automate any business process.
SigniFlow has a team of cryptographic experts, experienced engineers and business process automation architects to assist businesses in their digitalisation journey.
About Ubisecure & RapidLEI
Ubisecure is accredited by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI). RapidLEI is a Ubisecure service that automates the LEI lifecycle to deliver LEIs quickly and easily. As well as pioneering LEI automation, the company is a technology innovator and provides identity management software and cloud identity services that enable enterprises and governments to enhance customer experience, security and privacy through support for strong identities and management of customer identity data. Ubisecure also provides solutions to companies maintaining their own strong customer identities (such as banks and mobile network operators) to become Identity Providers (IdP) for strong authentication and federation services.
For more information please visit www.rapidlei.com or www.ubisecure.com
Ubisecure LEI: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55
