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Criterion Standards

What are Criterion Standards?

Criterion’s Standards are used by leading providers, platforms, advisers, promoting efficiency throughout the industry.

They provide the backbone for the exchange and movement of data for a large range of processes, helping organisations to significantly cut the costs of linking between systems.

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How are Standards managed?

Criterion Standards are managed by working groups. Our working groups bring together expertise from providers, platforms, advisers, software companies and government and industry bodies. A key objective is to collaborate and identify ways to make processes more efficient and to cut costs for users.

Next working group meetings

Upcoming meeting

Quotes Annuities Standard - Change Requests

27 October 2026
Upcoming meeting

Process and Standards Group meeting

4 November 2026
Upcoming meeting

Fix LoA Action Group

9 December 2026

Latest standards news

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22 October 2026

Standards September programme update

Progress continues across Criterion’s standards programme, with key developments in research,...
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05 October 2026

How Criterion Standards helped Pension Lab create a signatureless Letter of Authority (LoA) service

Pension Lab has used Criterion’s LoA Request Standard to create a provider-ready digital Lett...
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14 July 2026

Standards June programme update

Progress continues across key standards initiatives, with activity focused on research, develop...