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Grant Thornton LLP, an accounting, tax and management consulting firm, and VeriSign, Inc., provider of Internet trust services, are jointly offering managed digital certificate services to Grant Thornton’s base of financial services clients.

By leveraging VeriSign’s trust infrastructure, Grant Thornton will create certificate authority hierarchies for financial services clients. These hierarchies will enable financial institutions to issue digital certificates to their customers and partners, providing secure access and digitally signed transactions across applications.

“Both businesses and consumers can enhance the efficiencies of the Internet and electronic commerce by using digital signatures provided by their banks,” said Chris Leach, national director of e-risk services at Grant Thornton. “By teaming with VeriSign, we can now offer banks and other financial institutions the highest level of confidence and assurance in making digital signatures available to their customers.”

Grant Thornton will assist financial institutions with practices surrounding the creation of digital certificate hierarchies and the use of digital certificates and digital signatures in the e-commerce environment.

Grant Thornton has four principal lines of business, including financial advisory services for owners and managers of middle-market, entrepreneurial companies. For more information visit their Web site at www.grantthornton.com.

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