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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 Working Group

17 November 2026
Upcoming meeting

Retirement Income Providers' Forum

20 November 2026
Upcoming meeting

Fix LoA Action Group

9 December 2026

Latest standards news

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12 November 2026

Nick Green sits down to talk all things standards with the FPC’s Lewis Byford

At last month’s Verve Transformation event, I got the chance to sit down with Lewis Byford fo...
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03 November 2026

Integration is a competitive advantage. But only if it can scale.

Sustainable growth requires more than integration. It requires standardisation....
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22 October 2026

Standards September programme update

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