Association Membership Program

ACORD membership is a strategic decision that positions your organization to partner with other associations and consortia, and join forces on behalf of the industry. It provides an opportunity to work together with peers to prevent fragmentation and achieve interoperability.

Membership assures your organization an active voice in the prioritization, development, maintenance and management of ACORD Standards for Property & Casualty, Life & Annuity and Reinsurance. Through ACORD's Standards Management process, your organization can collaborate with carriers, reinsurers, underwriters, distributors, solution providers, user groups and other related organizations to define standards specifications in response to industry needs and determine gaps and overlaps in existing standards.

"Standardization within the annuity industry is something that our members felt was an important initiative. Our Technology Committee ? comprised of insurers, brokers/dealers, asset managers, and service providers ? is now working together with ACORD to set uniform data exchange requirements in the sale and processing of annuities. The acceptance and adoption of these standards will over time have a tremendous impact on our industry."

--Mark Mackey, President and CEO of NAVA

Membership Qualifications

ACORD Association membership is open to any nonprofit trade association representing individuals or firms, producers, brokers, agents or intermediaries engaged in the business of underwriting, selling, distributing or providing insurance products or other financial products or services.

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Membership Value

Industry recognition as an advocate and e-Business leader:

• eligibility for annual ACORD Awards and certification of standards, achievements that your organization can market to attract and expand trading partner relationships. Membership, awards, certification and implementation status is published for our membership, and is often used as marketing collateral by the membership.
• create a joint press release announcing your membership with ACORD
• acknowledgement in ACORD industry reports and publications

Participation in standards management through ACORD's Standards Programs, including:

• participation in P&C, life & annuity and reinsurance standards development and maintenance
• vote on new standards specifications and maintenance requests -- as you identify new data requirements, you can submit these as maintenance requests thereby ensuring that your business needs are reflected in the broader marketplace
• participation in working groups and subcommittee events

Member Only access to:

• training at ACORD Implementation Forum meetings at no cost
• implementation support from standards staff
• standards implementation guides
• Members Solution Provider Directory

ACORD staff support:

• Standards Staff
• Customer Service
• Management Staff

Access and direction to ACORD on co-operation and interoperability with other standards organizations and other industry associations, through:

• representation of ACORD staff on other standards organizations committees to:
  • represent insurance industry and ACORD members' business needs
  • build linkage and interoperability with other standards organizations
  • support collaborative efforts and implementation of standards

Access to ACORD communications:

• ACORD semi-annual Standards Newsletter
• monthly @ACORD e-newsletter

Other program discounts:

• discounts on registration and exhibitor fees for the Annual ACORD Conference
• membership discounts of 50% on consulting and training

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Annual Assessment

Membership fee: $1,000 per million of Gross Revenue. The membership is for your organization and is not transferable to your members.

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Contact

For further information on the benefits of membership or to have a Membership Kit sent to your address, please fill out our Information Request Form or contact Dominic Caccioppoli:

Phone: +1 845-620-1700 ext. 424
Email: memberservices@acord.org

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Note
The information contained on this web page including, but not limited to, current membership benefit offerings, is subject to change at any time without prior notice being posted.