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Calling to all financial institutions!
Are you a bank, an insurance or re-insurance institution, a payment institution, a payment service provider, an electronic money provider, a foreign exchange, an investment service provider, a trading venue, a stock exchange, a pension fund, an intermediary or broker, a private equity institution or venture capitalist, a credit rating agency, a credit union, a microfinance provider, a professional lender, a commodity exchange, an escrow services provider, or even a fintech? Then we can help you with your records retention!
We have researched all financial regulatory retention obligations in over 85 countries and US states! We cover MiFiD, SEC rulings, the Dodd-Frank Act, the Security Exchange Act and so much more. From EU, Asian, African and LATAM financial regulations to US state law, we have over 10,000 financial regulatory records retention obligations and counting. We are adding new countries weekly!
Records retention topics
Our data retention schedules include the following financial regulatory data retention periods:
- General and branch admin requirements
- Client, payment and transactional data
- Call recording
- Credit history and credit rating data
- Claims, claims adjustment and dispute resolution
- Regulatory investigations
- Risk management and regulatory compliance data,
- Advertisement and marketing
- Representatives
- Compensation schemes
- Internal controls and policies
- Personnel and training
- Actuary data
- Algorithmic and electronic trading
- Prospectus data
- And much more!


Why does records retention matter in the financial regulatory industries?
Privacy and financial regulatory laws apply directly to financial institutions around the globe. Data retention is of key importance in order to get control over your data and comply with the privacy and financial regulatory security, administration, prudence, market conduct, ethical norms. Financial institutions will need to ask themselves: what is the most optimal data retention period my company could implement so I am in control of my business and safeguard the stability and integrity of the financial system?
What you will learn from our financial institution records retention schedules
The filerskeepers financial institution data retention schedules contain:
- Over 10,000 data retention periods that could be relevant to your company
- Information about who should keep what data, for which time period, starting when, it is a maximum or minimum period
- All with a legal reference and a link to the official legal source
- Printer friendly format, designed for A4 printing

If you need more than a few countries
If you are active in over 10 countries both in and outside the EU, we recommend our Unlimited subscription. With Unlimited, you will receive access to all currently published retention schedules, and all new ones as well! If you are curious as to which countries we are planning to publish next, please see our roadmap. For more information about our one-off schedules and subscription models please see pricing.
About our retention schedules
filerskeepers helps companies decide which retention period to choose per system or document category. We provide our customers with insight into the legal maximum and minimum retention periods for each country relevant to them. This helps companies to justify why they are storing data and for how long.