Trustees and Collection Agencies

Trustees and collection agencies see themselves confronted by an ever-greater complexity of requirements. Exchanging data and archiving should be straightforward, secure, confidential, and traceable; paper use should be reduced and transparency and conformity with statutory requirements maximized at the same time. Information technology is supposed to make a decisive contribution to the achievement of these objectives and lead to substantially less work for the back office. A secure linking of changing internal and external partners including qualified digital signature for powers of attorney, for example, or cross-border service with the same quality are further demands made by trustees and collection agencies on information systems. You can achieve all of these objectives at one time with SwissSign as your partner!

Protect your Customers, Partners, Websites and Networks

SwissSign products and services give you a comprehensive portfolio of instruments to protect your customers, websites, and networks. At the same time, our products contain considerable potential for process optimization for trustees and collection agencies: For example, they make possible the unbroken-media transmission of digitally signed balance sheets, the electronic issuing of attestations (signature, time stamp, in unaltered, genuine form) or the issuing and exercising of powers of attorney with proof of one’s own actions, if need be with a time stamp. They further make possible confidential, authenticated, verifiable, and traceable communication with banks, tax authorities or collection agencies. For example, the Swiss Federal Justice Department already uses a SwissSign solution for the exchange of Trade Registry data. The following SwissSign products are available for a clear identification, qualified digital signature, and strong encryption and communication traceability:

• Electronic Certificates
• Managed PKI
• Identity Provider
• Secure Communication

A concrete application example is the trustee solution from ABACUS. With this Web solution, trustee customers are able make their own bookings on the trustee’s server from their own computers via the Internet without having to install special software. This solution distinguishes itself through the straightforward handling for both the trustee and client. The “Signing and Encryption of PDF Documents” feature integrated into the ABACUS software even allows customers to digitally sign balance sheets on the trustee’s server directly and online from the convenience of their own computers.

Electronic Archiving, Electronic Invoicing

SwissSign identification solutions combined with the SwissSign Time Stamp offer you the possibility to optimize your processes by archiving documents and electronically preparing invoices in conformity with statutory requirements. Switzerland’s Federal Department of Finance has approved the use of invoices involving value added taxes (VAT) that have been signed electronically and exchanged paperlessly. Based on the amended regulations from November 2007 on the handling of electronically transmitted data and information (ElDI-V), the Federal Department of Finance now requires advanced certificates from Swiss certificate services providers, who have been recognized under the Swiss Electronic Signature Act, for the signature of electronically exchanged invoices. The following SwissSign products allow you to do this:

• Electronic Certificates
• Time Stamping

Security Risk Management

Some IT security risks cannot be fought with existing products but rather require an individual analysis of your enterprise and consulting about the company and its processes. Dangers can only be warded off when they are handled correctly inside the company. Take advantage of the following SwissSign AG offering:

• Comprehensive Consulting and Advanced Training