essCert provides Chambers of Commerce, Authorizing Bodies, Exporters and Freight Forwarders with a secure, online tool for application and issuance of electronic governmental and quasi-governmental trade documents such as Preferential & Non-Preferential electronic Certificates of Origin (eCOs), EUR.1, ATR.1, EU/EC COs and more, along with relevant supporting documents such as Commercial Invoices. Today, essCert is the world’s largest eCO network, including 400+ Chambers of Commerce and 55,000+ Exporters & Freight Forwarders, issuing eCOs and other trade documents out of 21 export countries. essCert combines the best of essDOCS' electronic Certificate of Origin (eCO) solutions – TradeCert & eCertify – with next-gen technologies to offer the world's most powerful eCertification solution for global trade. *** In 2017, essCert (formerly 'TradeCert') was acquired by essDOCS. essDOCS is now part of ICE. You may know ICE already through its energy futures markets covering Brent, Gasoil, TTF, JKM LNG and EUA futures, and its soft commodity futures across coffee, sugar and cocoa. It is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks to connect people to opportunity. ICE provides financial technology and data services across major asset classes that offer its customers access to mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and operational efficiencies, two areas which essDOCS is similarly focused on. ICE operates exchanges, including the well-known New York Stock Exchange, and clearing houses that help people invest, raise capital and manage risk across multiple asset classes. ICE’s fixed income data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms to help customers capitalize on opportunities and operate more efficiently. While ICE Mortgage Technology is transforming and digitizing the U.S. residential mortgage process, which, like trade finance, has traditionally been a paper-based industry.