GMO GlobalSign, Inc. a global Certificate Authority (CA) and leading provider of identity security, digital signing and IoT solutions, today announced that in the month of June, the company’s Digital Signing Service (DSS) surpassed 6 million signatures for the first time. The number of timestamps also saw record levels of activity in June, with more than 5.5 million used. In addition, compared to 18 months ago, it is clear there is ongoing expansion of this offering. The high level of DSS usage underscores that businesses worldwide continue to adopt modern document signing methods. Another critical factor is the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. This will add to the pressure organizations are already faced with to implement secure, compliant digital processes; high-assurance signing solutions have become a critical component of organizational infrastructure.
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For the first time, GlobalSign’s Digital Signing Service records 6M signings in just one month.
Key Takeaways
- Signature Usage Growth: DSS customers utilized more than 4,624,412 digital signatures in January 2025. By June 2026, the activity grew to 6,136,107, an increase of more than 1.5 million signings.
- Timestamps: In January 2025, customers utilized DSS timestamp capabilities more than 4.6 million times. By June 2026, this grew to more than 5 million.
- Identities: The number of digital identities used for trusted signing within DSS reached 1,362,675 in June 2026, an increase of 1,101,112 compared to 18 months earlier.
Reasons for Expansion
GMO GlobalSign has been offering DSS since 2017 and was one of the first CAs to provide a capability for digital signatures and timestamps. In that time, the annual usage increased fivefold. Contributing factors to this growth include remote work during and following the pandemic, the gradual decline of paper-based document signing, the implementation of regulations worldwide and the expansion of document workflow solutions in broad array of industries.
“Digital transformation, bolstered and enabled by the proliferation of AI across enterprise environments, is radicalizing workflow expectations around efficiency. Mounting pressures around efficiency are only further compounded by increasingly stringent regulatory requirements across verticals and complex enterprise structures, including distributed, remote, and siloed teams. Under those conditions, solution elasticity and scalability is paramount, pushing cloud-based orchestration capabilities to the market forefront. Meanwhile, balancing change management and integration friction with ongoing compliance demands is critical for enterprises, centering high-assurance digital trust providers like GMO GlobalSign within the broader signing segment.” Aisling Dawson, Senior Analyst at ABI Research.
Industry by industry
Financial services: High-volume contract processing, strict SEC and FINRA audit requirements, and growing cross-border transaction volumes make PKI-based signing essential. DSS provides verifiable signer identity, trusted timestamps, and non-repudiation — the foundation of legally defensible financial documentation.
Healthcare: DSS’s encryption and audit trail capabilities align healthcare providers with both current HIPAA requirements and the direction of proposed 2026 regulation — while integrating with EHR systems and existing workflows.
Government: Public sector digital transformation programs worldwide are driving rapid adoption of trusted digital signing. DSS supports the identity verification and document integrity standards required for legally binding government-issued documentation.
Technology & cybersecurity: As organizations integrate signature workflows into CRM, ERP, and document management platforms, API-first signing infrastructure has become a baseline requirement. DSS’s RESTful API enables seamless embedding into any platform, so security teams can enforce signing policy consistently at scale.
“As regulatory expectations continue to evolve globally, organizations need signing solutions that go beyond basic e-signatures,” said Mohit Kumar, Vice President Product Management, GMO GlobalSign. “In addition, with AI increasingly a factor in security, identity-backed digital signatures can be another verification method to confirm authenticity.”
About the Digital Signing Service
GMO GlobalSign’s Digital Signing Service (DSS) is a cloud-based, API-driven platform for deploying high-assurance digital signatures and enterprise seals at scale, with no hardware or custom integrations required. Backed by GMO GlobalSign’s global trust infrastructure, DSS delivers signer identity validation, document integrity assurance, trusted timestamping, and non-repudiation, backed by its inclusion on the Adobe Approved Trust List. Powered by Atlas, GMO GlobalSign’s digital identity platform, DSS integrates with leading signing platforms and business applications to help organizations meet regulatory requirements across markets. Learn more at GMO GlobalSign’s Digital Signing Service.
About GMO GlobalSign, Inc.
As one of the world’s most deeply-rooted certificate authorities, GMO GlobalSign is the leading provider of trusted identity and security solutions enabling businesses, large enterprises, cloud-based service providers, and IoT innovators worldwide to conduct secure online communications, manage millions of verified digital identities and automate authentication and encryption. Its high-scale Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and identity solutions support the billions of services, devices, people, and things comprising the IoT. GMO GlobalSign is a subsidiary of GMO GlobalSign Holdings, K.K., a member of the Japan-based GMO Internet Group and has offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.globalsign.com.
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