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Committed to Financial Services Standards

Standards are essential to facilitate interoperability, flexibility, and scalability, and to streamline regulatory compliance. As an active member in key standards bodies and industry associations, Adobe continuously tracks standards and trends in financial services and banking, and supports these industry requirements through products and solutions.

Adobe® LiveCycle™ ES products support the many industry standards built on XML. PDF documents and Adobe LiveCycle and Acrobat products support XML standards like W3C XML Schema, helping organizations extend the value and reach of enterprise applications.

Adobe supports commonly used standards in financial services and banking and participates in numerous industry standards groups, including:

MISMO and PRIA: Adobe supports MISMO and PRIA data standards for emortgage processing and for esigning.
PISCES (mortgage - UK): PISCES is charged with developing standards for the real estate industry in the UK, and Adobe has helped develop a proof of concept demonstrating PDF-based support of PISCES commercial lending standards.
ACORD (insurance): Find out how Adobe solutions support ACORD forms for paperless processing.
XBRL (financial reporting) (PDF: 955k): Adobe and CoreFiling are making it easier to file using XBRL, as this white paper illustrates.
MiFID (EU trade of equities and derivatives): The new EU Directive MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) will drive the trade of equities and derivatives. Electronic documentation is key to comply with this new regulation..
Electronic signatures and PDF (PDF: 495k): Learn how esigned PDFs can help support secure and authenticated digital transactions.

Archiving – PDF/A

An ISO standard for electronic document archiving, PDF/A was developed by a working group that included Adobe and numerous other participants in government and industry. It is a key component in ensuring document retention compliance.

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PDF/A White Paper (PDF, 272 KB)