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When “simplification” is anything but simple: a slimmer FCA Handbook but the website continues to grow

28 July 2025 / Author(s): Hywel Jenkins , Cat Dankos , Jack Moore
Issue: August-September 2025 / Categories: In Practice
Company: Herbert Smith Freehills

A common observation about the FCA Handbook is that, with over 13,000 pages across more than 3,000 chapters, it is enormous.1 For comparison, that’s more pages than ten copies of War and Peace. This In Practice article considers the impact of the FCA’s shift towards an “outcomes focus” on the content of the Handbook and how material is shifting to the FCA’s website.

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