Together, DocuSign and Visa will seek ways to enable customers to prepare, execute and manage digital transactions and integrated payments safely and securely.

"Both Visa and DocuSign have a common vision to help consumers and organizations transact business in confidence," said Ryan McInerney, president, Visa Inc. "Our mutual objective is to eliminate paper-based transactions. For Visa, the competition is cash, for DocuSign it is paper. Visa is proud to invest and support DocuSign as it creates a digital standard that will help everyone transact business more conveniently, quickly and securely around the world."

"Our new relationship brings together two trusted global brands - Visa and DocuSign - that are both committed to helping consumers and companies around the world to Keep Business Digital," said Keith Krach, chairman and CEO, DocuSign.

DocuSign, The Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management, automates manual, paper-based processes with the only open, independent, standards-based DTM platform for managing all aspects of documented business transactions. DocuSign helps companies Keep Business Digital with industry-leading identity management, authentication, eSignature, forms/data collection, collaboration, workflow automation, payment collection, and document retention. DocuSign accelerates transactions for dramatic ROI, improved security and compliance, and better customer experiences with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud. DocuSign helps organizations of every size, industry and geography securely collect information and payments, automate workflows, and transact anything, anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Consumers and businesses trust DocuSign because its DTM platform is the safest, most reliable and secure in the industry, meeting the requirements of the xDTM Standard for security, privacy, compliance, enforceability, availability, openness, scalability and universality. DocuSign also complies with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).