Annual reports, SEC filings, fund documents and audit support for US financial institutions, in 326 languages.
Last reviewed August 24, 2026 by the Prism Linguistics editorial team
Prism Linguistics provides financial translation services for US banks, asset managers, insurers, accounting firms and fintech companies in 326 languages. Annual reports, 10-K filings, fund prospectuses, KYC files and audit reports are translated by finance-specialist linguists, reviewed by a second editor and handled under NDA. Free quotes usually come back within 60 minutes during business hours.
Financial work doesn't forgive loose terminology. A footnote misclassified as a liability, a tax rate translated as an amount, a "subsidiary" rendered as "branch": any of these can move a number on a filing or trigger an auditor query. The two things this sector asks for above everything else are accuracy and discretion, and both are built into how we work rather than added at the end.
Fluency on its own is not the qualification here. A translator who handles marketing copy beautifully can still misread provisions, accruals or impairment, and in a set of accounts that is not a stylistic slip. It is a factual error, and it can end up in front of an auditor or a regulator.
So we pick the linguist by background, not just by language pair. Depending on what the document is, that means someone who has worked in banking, accounting, fund administration, insurance or compliance, and who reads the source language as a native. Financial and regulatory terminology has fixed meanings; a translator who has met those terms in practice uses them the way your reader expects. Every job then goes to a second editor who reviews the translation against the original, and if you already have a translation and only need it checked, our proofreading service does that review as a standalone job.
Language coverage is broad because financial work is. A New York fund administrator's Mandarin subscription documents, a Japanese parent company's US subsidiary accounts, a Miami bank's Spanish and Portuguese customer letters: we cover 326 languages, with dedicated pages for Mandarin translation and Japanese translation, and the full list on our languages page. General corporate material that isn't finance-specific, such as HR policies or supplier contracts, sits with our business translation team.
What actually arrives in a normal week, from year-end filings to app release notes.
Annual reports, 10-K and 10-Q filings, consolidated and standalone statements, notes and comparatives. Tables and footnotes are rebuilt to match the original so both versions read side by side.
Year-end audit reports, interim reviews, management letters and working papers, translated to the standard Big Four teams expect, with defined terms held consistent across the whole set.
IPO prospectuses, bond offering memoranda, fund factsheets and subscription documents, with regulatory disclosure language preserved rather than paraphrased.
Onboarding packs, anti-money-laundering files, sanctions material and regulatory submissions. These often arrive as scans in three languages at once, and we are set up for that.
Policy wordings, endorsements, claims files and adjuster reports. Claims bundles mix medical, legal and financial content, so the translator has to be comfortable in more than one register.
Bank statements, loan and mortgage paperwork, and letters to account holders. Statements used as evidence for USCIS, a lender or a court usually need a certified translation.
In-app copy, onboarding flows, help centers and product sites, kept consistent release after release. This is where website translation earns its keep.
Earnings call scripts, analyst day decks, press releases and shareholder letters, with the same brand voice across every language you publish in.
A financial translation has to land inside a framework, and US and international frameworks name things differently. What IFRS calls "inventories" and "revenue", older UK-style drafting calls "stocks" and "turnover"; IFRS permits asset revaluation that US GAAP does not, and US GAAP permits LIFO inventory costing that IFRS prohibits. A translator who has never met those terms in practice will blend the two vocabularies, and a reviewer at an accounting firm will catch it immediately.
So linguists on this work are matched by framework as well as by language: US GAAP, IFRS or a local GAAP, including paired standards like leases under IFRS 16 and ASC 842 or revenue under IFRS 15 and ASC 606. For documents headed to US regulators, filings follow plain-English disclosure conventions where the SEC requires them, while mandatory foreign disclosure wording is preserved verbatim. FINRA and FinCEN material is handled the same way, and terminology decisions get documented so a multi-year filing history stays consistent.
Where financial and legal content overlap, as in a share purchase agreement, the same matching logic applies. Deposition and court interpreting has its own rules, which we cover on our legal sector page.
Figures are treated as data, not prose. In much of Europe, 1.234,56 means one thousand two hundred thirty-four and change; in the US the same figure is written 1,234.56, and a Swiss document may write it 1'234.56. Convert the words but not the separators and you have quietly changed a balance sheet by three orders of magnitude. Dates carry the same trap: 03/04/2026 is March 4 in New York and April 3 in most of the world.
Our process converts number and date formats deliberately, checks every figure back against the source rather than retyping from memory, and flags currency presentation (whether $ means USD, CAD or MXN in context) instead of guessing. Where a document defines a term on page two and uses it again on page forty, the defined term stays the same word all the way through. The mechanics are the same as our general document translation service; the finance-specific part is who does the work and what gets checked.
Not everything happens on paper. We provide financial interpreters for earnings calls, investor and shareholder meetings, audit fieldwork at a client site, due diligence sessions, claims interviews and depositions where the testimony turns on financial records.
The format follows the setting. For an investor day, an analyst briefing or a multilingual earnings call, conference interpreting with simultaneous delivery keeps the meeting moving at full speed. For account queries, short compliance checks and anything that comes up without notice, telephone interpreting connects an interpreter in minutes. Plenty of clients use both.
A good financial interpreter stays out of the way. They render what is said in the first person, they don't summarize, and they ask for a repeat rather than guess at a figure. If the meeting relies on a specific document, send it ahead and the interpreter reads into the terminology first. That single step improves an audit or a due diligence session more than anything else we can suggest.
A lot of what we translate for this sector should not be public yet, or ever: results before they are announced, board papers, M&A documents, investment memoranda, claims files, customer records. Some of it is material non-public information, and treating it carelessly is not just embarrassing, it is market-sensitive.
Every linguist who touches your job works under a signed non-disclosure agreement, and we will sign your own NDA before any file changes hands if that is what your policy requires. Files are shared only with the people actually working on the job, transfers are encrypted, and material non-public information is handled on a restricted-access basis, with deletion from active systems after delivery on request.
We would rather set the NDA up first and quote second than the other way around. If that suits you, say so when you request a quote and we will send one over before you upload anything.
Four steps, with the NDA available before anything is shared.
If your policy requires a non-disclosure agreement before anything leaves your systems, ask and we sign one before you upload a file. Otherwise, send the document through the quote form or to info@prismlinguistics.com with the target language and deadline.
We reply within 60 minutes during business hours with a fixed price, a word or page count and a delivery date. Tell us who will read the translation, because a filing exhibit, a customer letter and an internal briefing are prepared differently.
A linguist with a background in finance, accounting or banking translates the document. A second editor then reviews it against the source, checking figures, defined terms and framework terminology before anything is delivered.
You receive the file in the format you sent it, tables and notes rebuilt to match the original. Certified translations arrive as a signed PDF, and revisions are free if an auditor or regulator asks for a change.
There is no single rate, because financial work varies too much. As a guide, financial translation in the US market typically runs from around $0.12 to $0.30 per source word, with common language pairs at the lower end and rare languages, dense technical content or short deadlines pushing it up. Certified translation of short standard documents, a bank statement for instance, typically starts around $24.95 per page. Your quote confirms the exact price, and it is fixed rather than an estimate that moves.
| Document | Typical pricing basis | Typical turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| Bank statement (certified) | Per page, from around $24.95 | 24 to 48 hours |
| Audit report or statement set | Per source word | 3 to 7 business days |
| Annual report or 10-K sections | Per source word, plus table formatting | 1 to 2 weeks, length depending |
| Fund prospectus | Per source word | About a week |
| KYC / AML pack (scans) | Per page or per word, mixed | 2 to 4 business days |
Working to a board date or a filing deadline? Say so at quote stage. Year-end and audit seasons are exactly when surge capacity matters, and we will tell you honestly what is realistic before you commit.
The questions US financial clients ask most often.
Send the file, or just the project details if you would rather sign an NDA first, and we will come back with a fixed written price within 60 minutes during business hours.
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