Financial forms don’t go paperless until liability is settled
The real barrier to digitising financial paperwork isn’t technology. It’s whether you can say “it was delivered” and whether you can win a dispute. Printers should target the steps where a “trust-infrastructure tax” still applies.
For insurance premium deduction certificates, electronic issuance is now supported for about 98.5% of life insurance contracts and about 96.6% of earthquake insurance contracts (by number of contracts). Even so, paper in finance and insurance hasn’t gone to zero. What survives isn’t “people like paper.” What survives is how responsibility gets pinned down so you don’t lose when complaints and disputes arrive.
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It’s not about cutting paper into postcard sizes. In financial forms, what lasts to the very end is the envelope, the customer’s copy, and the “exit” for reissuance. Paper remains less as an information medium and more as a tool for fixing where responsibility sits. That’s why digitisation doesn’t end with UI and signatures.…
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