The handbook uses capital letters, italics and other identifiers to show how rules should be interpreted:
- Italics refer to words that appear in the glossary.
- “R” stands for Rule.
- “G” means guidance.
- “E” refers to evidential provisions which are rules but are not binding in their own right. They will always relate to another binding rule. Compliance with an E provision may be relied on as “tending to establish compliance”.
- Where documents are required in writing this means that they should be legible and capable of being reproduced on paper.
- Expressions in the handbook have the same meaning as in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
There are other definitions that can be found in the Glossary in the FCA Handbook.
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