What we work on
- Annual and interim reports
- Fund documentation and key information documents
- Prospectuses and offering material
- Investor communications and shareholder material
- Regulatory filings and disclosures
- Audit and compliance documentation
- Policy and procedure documentation
- Research and market commentary
Why this content resists automation
Numbers, formats and locale conventions. Decimal separators, thousands separators, negative number conventions, date formats, currency placement, scale words that differ between languages. Each error is trivial in isolation and material in a financial statement, and machine output produces them constantly because the convention is a locale property rather than a translation problem.
Regulated terminology is prescribed. Reporting standards, fund documentation and disclosure templates use controlled vocabulary. A fluent synonym is a deviation, and deviations in a filing become queries.
Forward-looking language is calibrated. The difference between "expects", "anticipates", "believes" and "may" is drafted deliberately, reviewed by counsel, and carries liability. Machine output treats these as interchangeable near-synonyms because in general language they very nearly are.
Deadlines are external. Results calendars and regulatory publication dates do not move. A quality problem discovered late is not a scheduling inconvenience; it is a disclosure problem.
Everything is permanent and comparable. Documents are archived and read against prior periods. Terminology that shifts between years creates apparent changes that were never made — and someone will ask about them.
What we deliver
- Reviewers with financial documentation experience, matched to instrument and document type.
- A dedicated numerical and locale pass, separate from the linguistic review, covering figures, formats, units and scale.
- Terminology consistency against prior periods, not just within the current document.
- A structured error report scored against MQM, with anything affecting a figure or a forward-looking statement treated as a critical finding.
- Delivery planned against your reporting calendar, with capacity agreed before the period rather than negotiated during it.
- A version trail suitable for archive and audit.
Languages where this matters most
German, for DACH reporting and the depth of its technical financial vocabulary. The Nordic languages, where engine output looks strong and review effort is higher than the standard discount assumes. Japanese and Chinese for cross-border investor communications. And the European set, where the requirement is coverage across every market and the exposure is whichever language nobody internally can read.