CRED Successful and Skilful Communications 2025

Make sure in a meeting that you …

• Have addressed all your questions before you leave • Understand your regulators’ comments Restate your understanding and ask for clarification, if necessary • Obtain agreement or establish an action plan for all agenda items • Watch time and pace discussion • Reserve about 10 min at the end for company and regulator to review and confirm agreements and action items (e.g. minutes) before adjourning

TIP! For issues left unresolved, propose and ask for a path forward

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Reading between the lines

Regulator says

Regulator means

‘Define …’ ‘Analyse …’

Do it – and don’t provide a review of already submitted documents

‘You should consider …’ Do it and don’t argue ‘We recommend …’ ‘we strongly encourage …’

Take it seriously and don’t consider it optional

‘This is a review issue …’

They are not doing a review of your documents / data at this point in time

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