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AltaSigna in Bank Account Statement generation

Generating and distributing account statements on current and savings accounts is major activity for any bank. So much so, that it is generally outsourced to large service providers offering the printing and surface mailing automation.

With Internet, creation and emailing of electronic account statements is taking the place of paper mailing.

While mailing of physical statements was an involved and expensive activity, there were fewer opportunities for abuse and the physical environment itself provided some of the security and user comfort.

With Electronic mailing, the account statements and associated communications have become one major Phishing harbor. Millions of dollars are being lost every day to scams that have their roots somewhere in these communications.

AltaSigna helps manage the entire life cycle of statement generation, digital signing, encryption and distribution of account statements for Centurion Bank of Punjab, ABN AMRO Bank and HDFC Bank.

Why digital Signature?

Prevents customer abuse of the statement

It is a significant Anti-Phishing measure.

 
Automatically imparts trust to any downstream applications where the customer has to re-present the account statement for credit verification and other purposes.
Most account view options provided in the Bank’s site are through SSL where the server is authenticated and the client is identified. This transient security model is made persistent by issuing digitally signed and encrypted statements.
In some cases, third parties insist on bank statements certified by the banker. This purpose will be automatically served by digitally signing every statement that goes out of the bank reducing administrative headaches.
A collateral benefit is that AltaSigna enables XML storage of the account details within the PDF document that can be extracted and used by automated downstream applications.
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