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#2030315 - 07/28/15 08:54 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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the customer then has to set up their login info, then click the box to prove "consent" to receive the disclosures, then they can click on the attachments
If the attachments are in PDF format for example, how does this prove that the customer can open and read a PDF document???
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#2030365 - 07/29/15 03:23 AM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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Is this a "push" system? If so, why is it necessary to set up login info? That makes it sound more like a "pull" system.
Regardless of the method by which the mortgage disclosures reach the applicant, you aren't describing anything that appears to be a "test drive" that will provide the proof Randy mentions.
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#2030465 - 07/29/15 03:28 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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Vendors that are E-sign compliant might help up all with complying with this act. Can anyone suggest a vendor? Does the ABA offer a software preferred provider? Thanks.
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#2030824 - 07/30/15 05:57 PM
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What is a "push" vs "pull" system?
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#2030848 - 07/30/15 06:39 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
THEBANKERLADY
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In a push system, you send e-documents to the customer, usually as email attachments. The customer needs the ability to open the documents. There's also a need for encryption of either the documents or the entire email.
Pull systems require the customer to log into a secure website and download their documents. Some of these systems are used in connection with an outbound email messages to the effect of: Your XXXXXXXXXX is ready for download. Such messages are not required by ESIGN.
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#2031121 - 07/31/15 05:19 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
John Burnett
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Thanks, John. Would like to use e-sign compliant software to assist in delivery of TRID docs, appraisals, etc.
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#2031349 - 08/03/15 05:06 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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I am cutting and pasting this from the E-SIGN regulations on BOL:
(c) Consumer disclosures
(1) Consent to electronic records
Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, if a statute, regulation, or other rule of law requires that information relating to a transaction or transactions in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce be provided or made available to a consumer in writing, the use of an electronic record to provide or make available (whichever is required) such information satisfies the requirement that such information be in writing if—
(A) the consumer has affirmatively consented to such use and has not withdrawn such consent;
and then . . . (C) the consumer—
(i) prior to consenting, is provided with a statement of the hardware and software requirements for access to and retention of the electronic records; and
(ii) consents electronically, or confirms his or her consent electronically, in a manner that reasonably demonstrates that the consumer can access information in the electronic form that will be used to provide the information that is the subject of the consent; and
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#2031362 - 08/03/15 05:48 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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The pivotal requirement is in paragraph (c)(1)(ii): "in a manner that reasonably demonstrates that the consumer can access information in the electronic form that will be used ....."
The consent or confirmation must demonstrate the consumer can access the information in the format it will be provided in. If you don't include that demonstration step, you haven't completed the task of getting E-SIGN consent.
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#2031380 - 08/03/15 06:36 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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What kind of examiners? Probably not anyone from your prudential regulator. More likely, it will be an examination in a court of law when the consumer's junk-yard-dog lawyer in a foreclosure or other suit against the consumer challenges the bank on its claim that it delivered a required disclosure. When it turns out that the bank's E-SIGN consent process was faulty, the judge has to rule that the disclosure never happened.
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#2031390 - 08/03/15 07:07 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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The customer has to "login" this secure website themselves, then download the document....I am supposed to...send my final documents to them. I'm still trying to decide whether this is a "push" or "pull" system. In one place you say the customer must download "the document." Is "the document" the TIL/RESPA disclosures? Just when I ready to call this a "pull" system, you talk about "sending" final documents to the applicant--a "push" system. I'll be happy to describe an appropriate consent mechanism once the e-delivery method is clear.
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#2031585 - 08/04/15 06:22 PM
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Are you familiar with Secure Document Exchange (SDX) from Wolters Kluwer? That is the program I am referring to. Let's just say I log into this SDX program. I go to "create package." It is laid out almost like an email account. I type in the customer's email address, attach the document that I want to send (let's just pretend it is TILA/RESPA disclosures), and send to the customer. It pops up a notification saying that this particular customer has not registered yet onto SDX and it says it will send them instructions on how to set up their account, then i hit ok and send. The customer receives an email saying that their document package is available for review. Before you are able to download nad print these documents, you must first set up your user account by following these simple instructions: blah blah blah. They then set up their account, then login. When they do that, they have what appears to be an email with an attachment. When they click on the email, the e-consent page pops up and has all the required disclosures pertaining to withdraw consent, printed copies, minimum system requirements, and so on. They either can hit " I consent to Electronic Packages" or "I do not Consent." If they consent, then they are taken back to their main page to the email again. They click on the email. On this particular set of disclosures, I have required them to "sign" them. They have to actually open up the attachment prior to "signing" them. Once they have opened the disclosures up (it automatically downloads them to the mobile device), they then are allowed to "sign" the disclosures. As soon as they do that, I would get an email back of the attachment with a date, time and signed stamp on each page of the document that they opened.
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#2031615 - 08/04/15 07:22 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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^ looks like you got your answer. At no point are you sending an email with the disclosures, so they are not required to consent via email. They are providing demonstrable consent when they log into the system and open up the consent document, which is the same way they receive the disclosures you send.
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#2031694 - 08/05/15 01:30 AM
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This is a "pull" system and it sounds like your customers touch all the necessary bases. Our confusion stemmed from the different facades the system presents to the documents' creators and recipients. From your perspective, documents are pushed toward the customer...but not all the way to him/her. Behind the scenes, the system holds the documents and requires the recipient to pull them off a secure server. Gioia raises a good point--there is no requirement that these e-delivery customers must consent via email. I agree. Nevertheless, ordinary email is an integral part of this system and must be part of the "test drive." "Pull" systems used for statements and other regularly recurring e-documents might be able to dispense with the email announcement, but in a system designed to handle single items, the customer has no other way to know that a one-time e-document is available for download. The system packages the consent process into a smoother, more customer-friendly appearance and labels it "registration." It makes no difference how it's presented or what it's called, so long as the "registration" steps include delivery of the ESIGN pre-consent disclosures to the consumer and a satisfactory test drive. Here's where those steps are handled: ...customer has not registered yet...SDX will send...an email saying that their document package is available for review. This message via ordinary email alerts the customer to go to SDX, log in, and follow the instructions. Beginning with the current document package, any future e-deliveries will begin the same way--with an ordinary email message announcing the availability of e-documents. By advancing past this step, the customer demonstrates that the email address that s/he provided is valid and that s/he can actually receive, open, and read the content of the type of alert messages that SDX sends out. The next step: ...set up your user account...they have what appears to be an email with an attachment. When they click on the email, the e-consent page pops up and has all the required disclosures pertaining to withdraw consent, printed copies, minimum system requirements, and so on. Here you have satisfied ESIGN's preconsent disclosure requirements. They either can hit "I consent to Electronic Packages" or "I do not Consent." By knowing the meaning of the two links, buttons, etc, and clicking the one labeled "I consent" the customer demonstrates that s/he got to the right place on the SDX server, opened the right document, and was able to comprehend the content. That's it!! Your customer has passed the test drive! S/he has done everything necessary to access, open, and use the content of your disclosure package, and your electronic disclosure document is now the legal equivalent of paper.
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#2031863 - 08/05/15 05:16 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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this it not familar territory Oh, but it is! You aren't familiar with it in the wonderful world of banking, but it's very similar to driving. If you want to use the highway (e-delivery of documents), you must have a driver's license (consent via ESIGN.) All candidates for driver's licenses must obtain and comprehend the rules for driving on public highways (the ESIGN pre-consent disclosures.) All candidates for driver's licenses must submit an application for a license (ESIGN's "affirmative consent") in order to be considered. The trickiest part of ESIGN is the demonstration, but that's also the part that's the closest comparison with getting a driver's license. It would be laughable if a candidate could simply sign a statement like "I know how to drive a car" and that declaration would satisfy the behind-the-wheel part of the driver's license exam! That's why ESIGN requires a demonstration (test drive), and not just a simple declaration. Congress wanted to be sure that each e-delivery applicant could actually navigate an e-delivery system before granting an "ESIGN license" to use the system as the legal equivalent of paper. The demonstration should work just like the test drive where you have to climb behind the wheel, take your vehicle around the block, and return safely.
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#2032310 - 08/07/15 01:55 PM
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What about when you have one consumer that agrees to electronic documents, but the other jointly on the account does not? Do we still go ahead and set them up on e-documents.
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#2032333 - 08/07/15 02:43 PM
Re: E-SIGN consent question
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One way or another, I've dealt with regulators for 45 years. During that time, I never saw them mishandle an issue worse than they have mishandled ESIGN. They will be the first to caution you that the absence of criticism does NOT amount to their approval of a particular banking practice.
By itself, ESIGN looks innocent enough. It isn't politically-charged and has no penalties or enforcement mechanism. That's probably why the regulators have paid it so little attention. That has been a huge disservice to an industry that relies (too much) on its regulators to establish it's risk focus.
Assuming your "various mortgage docs" include TIL, RESPA, and other regulatory disclosures, your lenders are playing with fire--limitless exposure to penalties. These are the familiar penalties--not in ESIGN--but in TILA, RESPA, and other consumer laws/regulations that require "written" disclosures. If you dispense with paper and ignore ESIGN, you are fully exposed to allegations that you did not give these disclosures at all. You won't be able to offer copies of paper documents and won't be able to produce any evidence that you had the consumers' consent to substitute electrons for paper. A court can (and probably will) rule that you gave none of these disclosures and are liable for the same penalties that would apply if you decided not to put paper in the printer!
You are not overreacting or misinterpreting ESIGN, but you may be warning about the wrong storm.
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#2032335 - 08/07/15 02:55 PM
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What about when you have one consumer that agrees to electronic documents, but the other jointly on the account does not? Do we still go ahead and set them up on e-documents. We discussed this recently, but I can't find that thread. Maybe someone else can link that discussion. There isn't a single answer to this question because your "electronic documents" may or may not contain consumer disclosures of some kind and not all of those disclosures are required by the same law/regulation. You must inspect the content of each document. If it contains one or more consumer disclosures, you must look at the delivery requirements for each disclosure you find. If a disclosure must be given to multiple parties, then ESIGN consent or paper will be required for each person.
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