Alliances

Strong working partnerships with industry Associations and Technology Leaders helps Cooperative Technologies stay in the forefront of changing technology.

ACORD, the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, is the insurance industry's nonprofit standards developer, a resource for information about object technology, EDI, XML, and electronic commerce.  ACORD maintains ACORD forms standards, AL3 OLife and the XMLife standards used for STP paperless exchanges.

National Association of Variable Annuities' (NAVA) mission is to promote the growth, acceptance and understanding of annuity and variable life products to retirement-focused Americans; to provide educational and informational resources to the members and the public; to protect consumers by encouraging adherence to the highest ethical standards by insurers, distributors and all the other participants in our diverse industry; and to protect and advance the interests of their members. NAVA has taken a leadership role in the insurance and financial industry's straight-through processing standardization initiative. By creating standards that establish a common process for doing electronic new business submission for all annuity and variable life products.

Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), through its subsidiaries, is the world's leading provider of centralized clearance, settlement and information services to financial services industry. DTCC is a leading processor of mutual funds and insurance transactions.

Microsoft is the leader in operating system and application software, providing the operating systems and software used by most businesses.

US Chamber of Commerce member since 1998.