Industries · Financial Services
Media Vaulting for Broker-Dealers, RIAs and Financial Firms
This sector carries the most prescriptive record-keeping obligations of any we serve, and examiners ask specific questions about where records live and who touched them.
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Air-gapped
No network connection. Ransomware cannot reach it.
70°F / 50%
Climate held to ±2° and ±5% RH
9R
Highest UL vault rating available
40+
Years operating since 1983
Why it matters
The pressure this sector is actually under
Books-and-records rules govern not only what is kept but how it is preserved and how quickly it can be produced. An examiner asking where a particular record was held in a particular month is asking a custody question, and "we think it was in the office" is not an answer. Firms in Brickell and Boca Raton carry this load most heavily.
What firms in this sector hand us
- Backup tape and drive sets
- Archived communications media
- Trade and account documentation
- Retired systems holding client data
Compliance
Frameworks that usually apply
FINRA & SEC Books and Records
This is the most prescriptive record-keeping regime we encounter. Rules address not only what must be kept, but how it must be preserved and how quickly it must be produced. Examiners ask custody questions, and custody questions need custody answers.
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Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
SOX is a controls regime. Auditors test whether a control operated, not whether it was described. A custody record showing that every rotation happened on schedule is the kind of evidence that survives testing.
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These pages describe what physical custody contributes. They are general background, not legal advice, and they do not state retention periods.
Services this sector uses most
Questions from financial services
- Do you provide custody documentation for examiners?
- Yes. Every movement is timestamped and scanned, and we can produce the custody history for any item we hold.
- Does vaulting satisfy our books-and-records obligation?
- It provides the physical custody and evidence layer. Whether your overall programme satisfies a specific rule is a question for your compliance counsel — we do not opine on it.
- How fast can records be produced?
- Scheduled retrieval, plus 24/7 emergency retrieval for contracted clients.
Other sectors we serve
See the vault before you decide.
Tours are private and by appointment. You will see the vault door, the man-trap entry, and the box sizes in person. No account relationship is required to visit.