Financial translation services
Specialist financial translation for financial institutions and corporates
Orange Translations provides financial translation services for banks, insurers, asset managers, fintechs and corporate finance teams in more than 50 languages. We regularly handle financial documents that affect reporting, funding and regulatory disclosure, where small changes in wording can have practical consequences. At Orange Translations, we match each financial translation project with translators who are native in the target language, have relevant finance experience, and a track record of working with reporting and regulatory content, so your documents stay clear and reliable in every market.
Why specialist financial translation matters
Financial documents are more than information; they record obligations, risks and performance over time. If wording drifts between languages, investors, lenders and regulators may not be working from the same picture.
Specialist financial translation keeps concepts, definitions and key clauses aligned across all versions. That makes it easier to compare figures year‑on‑year, reconcile disclosures across markets, and avoid questions about what a particular sentence was meant to say. When reporting and deal timelines are tight, it also reduces the risk of last‑minute rework because a translation does not match the source closely enough.
Expert financial translators
Financial content is assigned to translators who specialise in finance and related fields such as audit, banking, insurance and investment. They always translate into their native language and work with agreed accounting, legal, and product terminology. This keeps key concepts, definitions and clause wording stable across documents, languages and reporting periods.
Orange Translations originally based its quality workflows on the European translation standard EN 15038 and now holds ISO 17100 certification, the international standard that replaced it. For high‑risk documents such as public reports, regulatory submissions or transaction materials, translations are revised by a second professional translator under ISO 17100‑aligned workflows. This gives you a documented process with separate roles for translation and revision when external scrutiny is expected.
When financial translation goes wrong
Often financial translation problems are not dramatic mistranslations, they are small shifts in wording that only show up later. A covenant paraphrased instead of mirrored, a note that softens a disclosure, or a clause that sounds reasonable in one language but no longer matches the original.
Those gaps can delay audits and approvals, trigger extra questions from regulators or rating agencies, and create unnecessary back‑and‑forth between local offices and head office. In more serious cases, they can affect how risks and obligations are understood, which is exactly what investors and supervisors are trying to avoid. Having a clear process and specialist translators in place reduces these risks and makes it easier to correct issues early, while you still have time in the reporting or deal timetable.
Translation that fits your reporting cycle
Financial translation rarely happens in isolation. Drafts change, figures are updated and legal wording is refined as you move towards sign‑off. If the translations lag behind these changes, different language versions quickly fall out of sync.
We work from the same master sources and change logs as your internal teams, so updates to numbers, notes or clauses can be picked up systematically rather than piecemeal. When you roll forward a report or fund document, we reuse stable content from previous years and focus effort on genuine changes. That keeps versions aligned, reduces manual copy‑and‑paste work and helps your teams hit reporting and filing dates without last‑minute surprises.
Working with finance, legal and compliance teams
Financial translation projects often involve several departments and external advisers. We set up a simple structure at the start of each project: points of contact, escalation routes for queries, and rules for handling last‑minute changes. Source files, reference documents and terminology lists are collected once and shared across all languages, so teams are not answering the same questions repeatedly.
Throughout the project, a dedicated project manager coordinates questions from translators, tracks versions and confirms which documents are final. This reduces the risk of outdated wording being used in one language while another has already been updated.
Translation memory and terminology
Financial content repeats across years, portfolios and entities: standard risk warnings, recurring note disclosures, boilerplate clauses, policy wording. We use translation memory tools to store approved segments as we work, so established wording can be reused rather than recreated. This helps keep phrasing stable and speeds up future updates to reports and other recurring documents.
In parallel, we maintain client‑specific term bases for accounting, legal, and product terms that must remain consistent. These resources are shared across translators and revisers, supporting consistency when you add new funds, structures or jurisdictions.
Certified financial translation
Some financial documents need to be submitted to courts, regulators, immigration authorities or other official bodies. Through our local offices, Orange Translations can provide certified translations for use in the UK, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. When you request certified financial translation, we confirm the receiving body’s requirements and arrange the appropriate certification or notarisation, quoting any associated fees separately from translation.
Working with Orange Translations
Orange Translations combines local project management with a global network of specialist translators. You work with a single point of contact who understands your business, while your content is handled by experts in each target market.
A typical project runs as follows:
- You send us your files, target languages, and any reference material.
- We review the content, propose timelines and pricing, and agree the scope and quality level.
- We then assign translators with relevant technical expertise, carry out translation and reviews, and deliver files in your preferred format, ready for your team to use or publish.
Translation memory and terminology
For ongoing projects, our translators work within a translation memory system that stores all translated content in a database in real time. That way, identical content does not need to be translated repeatedly. This saves time and money and helps ensure accurate and consistent translations throughout each project and over time. Additionally, for each client we set up and maintain a term base which contains all technical terms, product names etc. that should be kept consistent in every translation. This helps ensure correct and uniform usage of key terminology throughout the project.
Machine translation (MT) and MTPE
Machine translation and AI tools can speed up multilingual work and reduce costs, especially for large volumes or internal content. At Orange Translations, these tools are combined with professional translators (machine-translation post-editing, or MTPE), so you can choose the right balance of speed, quality and budget for each project. We offer four service levels, each at different price points:
Raw
Machine Translation
- MT environment more advanced than free tools
- Persistent memory for brand consistency
- Best for internal, low risk information
- Lowest cost translation for tight budgets
Light
Professional Involvement
- Light review of MT output by 1 translator
- Checks accuracy, correct spelling, and grammar only
- Persistent glossary memory for brand consistency
- Can use your own MT or our MT engine
- Budget option for non-critical content
Pro
Professionally Led
- Full review of MT output by 1 translator
- Checks and applies industry terminology
- Improves flow, tone and brand alignment
- Suitable for marketing or branded communication.
- Accuracy is high but not legally guaranteed
Full
ISO Certified
- ISO 17100 compliant translation by 2 translators
- Full human translation plus secondary review
- Fully researched, consistent terminology usage
- Optimised for style, tone and readability
- Suitable for technical and legal documentation
- Highest level of accuracy and quality guaranteed
- Covered by professional liability insurance
Machine‑translation post‑editing (MTPE)
Machine‑translation post‑editing, or MTPE, combines machine translation with professional human editing. It is a way to increase speed and control costs while still aiming for a quality level that matches the purpose of your text.
Neural machine translation and generative AI can work well for many high‑resource languages, especially closely related European languages such as English, French, German, or Spanish, where large amounts of training data are available. Quality tends to drop for structurally different languages, or for language pairs and domains with less reliable training data.
Even when output looks fluent, AI may misuse specialist terminology, mishandle complex ideas, or adopt a tone that does not fit the target audience. This is why raw machine translation is rarely sufficient for content with brand, legal, or safety implications, even when it seems polished at first sight.
In practice, MTPE is not a single fixed service, but a spectrum. At the lower end, light MTPE focuses on correcting clear errors, spelling, and grammar; at the higher end, comprehensive MTPE involves a full review of meaning, style, terminology, and text flow, closer to a traditional translation process, especially for brand‑sensitive or persuasive content.
UK‑based language industry expert Andrew Schlich summarises this with the “6 Cs” of MTPE. If your content is business critical, complicated, creative, culturally sensitive, confidential, or must be compliant, machine translation alone is not enough and professional translators need to be involved to ensure that terminology, clarity, tone, and cultural expectations are met, and that the result is fit for purpose.
Raw machine translation
We run your text through our advanced translation environment system, producing higher quality output than freely available tools such as ChatGPT or DeepL. Translation memory functionality means the system learns from your previously translated content, and references an integrated glossary to keep key terminology accurate and consistent. This reduces a wide range of common machine translation errors.
This level works well for content that needs to be broadly understandable, where budget limits rule out the more advanced options below. It is not suitable for marketing or advertising, complex material, or any content involving liability or compliance, such as technical manuals or medical information.
Light MTPE by one translator
This level combines machine translation from our translation system as before, with light post-editing by one translator, or we can work with machine translations you already have. The translator focuses on accuracy, spelling, and grammar only. The result is suitable for content that must be comprehensible and free of typical machine translation errors.
We do not carry out extensive research or verification of industry terminology, and we do not thoroughly check consistency. However, the underlying machine translation from our system already draws on your existing content and glossary, which gives the output a solid baseline reliability.
Pro MTPE by one translator
Here, comprehensive post-editing of the machine translation is done by a professional translator to ensure accuracy, spelling, grammar, terminology, and style adaptation. This level reaches a professional standard and suits target-group oriented marketing communications. The texts are edited for flow and style, and terminology is researched and applied consistently.
Accuracy is high, but we do not guarantee it in a legal sense. This service is not ISO compliant, as a second translator does not revise the text.
Full ISO 17100 compliant
A professional translator carries out the translation, and a second professional translator revises it. The translation is ISO 17100 compliant and is suitable for legal documentation and technical content where product liability may be relevant. We optimise the translations for flow and style, and we research and apply terminology consistently.
This is a full professional service with guaranteed accuracy, fully covered by our professional liability insurance.
