Blog: After 2,000 pages, is the FSA's work on RDR done?

Helpfully, at the beginning of every FSA paper, there is a small section outlining who should read it.

Scott Sinclair
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Helpfully, at the beginning of every FSA paper, there is a small section outlining who should read it.

So, if you have done as you have been told and read every discussion paper, feedback statement, consultation paper and policy statement ever published on the RDR, you will have trawled through a (criminally under-used word #1) ‘humongous’ 1,083 pages. This is excluding the FSA’s related work on prudential rules, platforms and corporate pensions (for those of you who are interested, this would amount to an extra 520 pages). To save from ruining your day further, I won’t even mention the consultation papers on the Mortgage Market Review. If you have made it through all of the above, ...

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