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
Occupation Code List Implementation Group meeting
26 June 2025
Platform Account Opening Working Group Meeting
16 July 2025
Process and Standards Group meeting
20 August 2025
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