ESC Corporate Services, previously Dye & Durham and Teranet, is a private Ontario corporation that acts as a licensed government service provider under contract with the Ministry of Government Services. This company is best known by Canadian law firms and the business community as the direct link to the government whereby ESC Corporate Services acts as a facilitator of regulatory compliance by providing access government records and government's registration and filing services. The most widely used government services facilitated by ESC Corporate Services include Incorporations, PPSA searches and registrations, Security Searches and trade name registrations. Image:ESC LOGO.jpg|thumb|alt= Corporate logo of ESC Corporate Services, a licensed service provider under contract with MGS. |Corporate logo used by ESC Corporate Services Established: January 2010 No. of employees: less than 50 Industries: government services Company type: licensed service provider Key people: Chris Valentine, President Associations: Website: http://eservicecorp.ca
General Information
ESC Corporate Services is a licensed service provider under contract with the MGS. Licensed service providers under MGS contract have exclusive rights to facilitate access to government registries and registration services in Ontario and across Canada. As such, ESC Corporate Services is licensed to legally provide a variety of government services to the legal and business communities. The contract with the MGS does not prohibit the development of any proprietary and value added services that a Licensed Service Provider deems necessary in order to retain its market share and improve its operational and customer service quality.
Formation of ESC Corporate Services
ESC Corporate Services was founded as Dye & Durham which itself was established in Toronto in 1874. It formally adopted the name Dye & Durham in 1911. Dye & Durham was an organization that originally sold legal forms, primarily in Ontario, and soon progressed to offer a complete line of office products and, most recently, as a search, registration and corporate supplies division of Teranet. As a result of acquisition from and Teranet, ESC Corporate Services was established in January 2010 and started providing government services to the public as a licensed service provider under contract with the Government of Ontario. ESC Corporate Services' headquarters is located in the King Street and Spadina Avenue area of Toronto, Ontario.
Government Services Facilitated by ESC Corporate Services
Its contract with MGS gives ESC exclusive right to facilitate access to the following government services for the legal and corporate community as a Licensed Service Provider: Incorporation: Provincial, Federal and nationwide filing of Articles of Incorporation, Amendment and Dissolution. Registrations and Filings of Corporate trade names, Small business, court documents and PPSA securities. Government Database Searches which include ONBIS and Business Name searches, Corporate name searches and registrations via NUANS, PPSA and PPSA+ searches, Security searches, Real Estate searches and Birth/Death Certificate, Marriage Licence and MTO searches.
Following the enactment on December 31, 2008 of the New Client Identity & Verification Requirements under By-Law 7.1 introduced by all financial institutions, lawyers and paralegals are required to verify their client's identity in an attempt to prevent money laundering activities. developed its "Know Your Client" service - a service to verify corporate entities as a means to facilitate compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering . On May 10 and 11, 2011, ESC exhibited at the 10th Annual Forum on Anti-Money Laundering hosted by in Toronto where the following subjects were covered:
Conducting inherent risk analysis
Anti-Money Laundering in trade finance
Anti-Money Laundering for mutual fund and portfolio managers and
In order to facilitate compliance with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario's requirement for all physicians to submit their annual renewal based on the anniversary date of the Certificate of Authorization, ESC provides assistance to the members of the medical community with completion of their Annual Renewal through providing the means for obtaining their Certificates of Status together with the Annual Renewal Application which are required by the CPSO in order to obtain their Certificate of Authorization.
Corporate Partners
ESC has partnered with the Government of Ontario and Loan Transact in order to develop a number of proprietary services offered to its legal and business customers throughout Canada.
