Financial Translation

Document types

What we translate

• Annual reportsLong documents in which the same terms recur in the management report, the statements and the notes; a glossary and translation memory help keep them the same throughout.
• Financial statements and notesEvery figure, sign and total must match the source; the number check flags segments where figures differ, and the reviewer checks negatives shown in brackets.
• Interim reportsQuarterly and half-year reports repeat much of the previous text, so exact matches from translation memory are reused and the rest is drafted fresh.
• Investor presentationsShort text in tight PPTX text boxes; the length check flags segments whose length is out of line with the source, and the slide itself should be checked.
• Earnings releasesOften prepared before publication; the text is processed on DeepReference's servers in the EU and is not sent to an outside AI company.
• Audit reportsThe opinion and key audit matters use set wording in each language; store the approved wording in translation memory so the same source sentence is reused next year.
• Banking documentsLoan agreements and account terms use defined terms such as “Borrower” or “Facility”; add them to the glossary so they are sent with each sentence and a missing one is flagged.
• Risk disclosures and prospectusesHedged wording such as “may” or “could” must keep its strength; a formal tone helps, but the reviewer reads these passages closely.
• Reporting packs in ExcelLabels are translated and Excel formulas are kept, so totals still calculate; open the file and check the results before delivery.

How to do it, step by step: 6. Document translation

Quality controls

Checks available during review

Who uses this

Industries served

Banks, investment firms, finance teams, auditors, fintech companies, and investor relations teams.

Standards and references

What reviewers can check

Reviewers can check currencies, dates, percentages, ratios, table values, accounting terms, and disclosure wording.

Before delivery

What your reviewer checks

• Every figure matches the source, including signs, negatives in brackets, subtotals and totals.
• Decimal and thousands separators follow the target convention (1,250.50 in English, 1.250,50 in German, 1 250,50 in French); DeepReference does not convert them.
• Currency codes and symbols are unchanged and placed as the target language expects; no amount is converted into another currency.
• Scale words are right: an English “billion” is a “Milliarde” in German and “mil millones” in Spanish, while a German “Billion” or a Spanish “billón” is a thousand times larger.
• Dates, financial years and periods (FY2025, Q3, H1, “as at 31 December”) match the source.
• Accounting terms match the client's glossary and the reporting framework used, such as IFRS or local GAAP.
• Forward-looking statements and risk wording keep their strength: “may” stays “may”, “expects” stays “expects”.
• Table labels still sit with the right figures, and Excel formulas give the same results as in the source file.
• Every quality-check flag is resolved or deliberately accepted before “Approve all”.

How to do it, step by step: 7. Translation Editor

Transparency

What DeepReference does not do

• DeepReference does not certify translations. Where a regulator, court or stock exchange asks for a certified or sworn translation, a certified or sworn translator provides it.
• There is no automatic conversion of number formats, currencies, dates or scale words. The reviewer checks them.
• The quality checks flag; they do not correct. A figure that keeps its digits but changes its scale word (million to billion) or its unit (bp to %) needs a reviewer's eye.
• DeepReference does not check whether the source figures are correct or whether a report follows IFRS or any other standard. It is not an audit, accounting or investment advice service.
• There is no model trained specially for finance. The domain setting guides terminology extraction only; it does not change how the model translates.
• Text inside images, such as charts saved as pictures in a PDF, is not translated, and a scan without a text layer is refused. Upload the original file where possible.