Legal firm Pinsenst Mason's have produced some useful platform and RDR articles on their free legal-advice website, www.out-law.com

You can access these articles by clicking the links below:

What is a platform? - How platforms work and what the FSA expects of adviser firms choosing and using them.

The RDR and platforms - The FSA would like to ban payments from product providers to platforms and unbundle charges so that customers can properly judge the cost of the services provided.