Branch-network refresh for a Canadian Big Five bank

Engagement at a glance

Sector: Banking · Big Five. Sites: 1,100+ branches across all 10 provinces. Devices: Enterprise laptop, desktop and branch-server fleet (multi-thousand units). Duration: 6 months. Method: NIST 800-88 Purge wipe in our Toronto facility for laptops; on-site Purge for branch servers. Per-device certificate, OSFI-acceptable manifest, PIPEDA-aligned destruction trail. Quebec-province assets handled to Law 25's tighter audit posture.. Outcome: Compliant disposal with per-device certificates formatted to support OSFI B-13 and PIPEDA audits; CAD value recovery against PO. Representative engagement profile — figures illustrative, not a specific client record.. Settled in CAD against PO. NDA standard throughout. All identifying details anonymised; specifics shareable on procurement reference call.

Sites covered

1,100+ branches across all 10 provinces

Devices retired

Enterprise laptop, desktop and branch-server fleet (multi-thousand units)

Engagement duration

6 months

Sanitisation method applied

NIST 800-88 Purge wipe in our Toronto facility for laptops; on-site Purge for branch servers. Per-device certificate, OSFI-acceptable manifest, PIPEDA-aligned destruction trail. Quebec-province assets handled to Law 25's tighter audit posture.

Outcome and value recovered

Compliant disposal with per-device certificates formatted to support OSFI B-13 and PIPEDA audits; CAD value recovery against PO. Representative engagement profile — figures illustrative, not a specific client record.

Why this engagement matched the Maxicom playbook

A Banking · Big Five engagement of this scale typically benefits from Maxicom's programme model: single SOW spanning the Canada footprint, country-lead executing locally, programme manager based with the customer, quarterly business review consolidating Reuse-First metrics. Per-asset Certificate of Destruction admissible against OSFI B-13 and LPRPDE. Cross-border resale routing under NDA where local market depth was thin. Settlement consolidated to the customer's reporting-currency entity through internal Maxicom inter-company arrangements.

Standards stack applied

NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 Purge for working drives. IEEE 2883-2022 firmware Sanitize for SSD/NVMe. DoD 5220.22-M overwrite where the contract specified it. Physical destruction at 6mm/2mm/0.5mm where the data classification mandated it. Witness destruction at the request of the data owner for top-classified material. Per-asset certificate retention 8 years (BFSI default). Compliance attestation cross-referenced to the customer's sustainability framework (CSRD ESRS E5, ISSB IFRS S1/S2, BRSR Principle 6, GRI 301/305/306).

Reuse-First disposition KPIs reported back

Total tonnage processed. Reuse-First reuse rate (% refurbished + redeployed vs % destroyed by media class). Residual value recovered in CAD. Embodied-carbon-recovered estimate (CO₂e avoided versus a destruction-first counterfactual). Diversion-from-landfill percentage. Material-recovery breakdown (steel, aluminium, copper, plastics, rare earths). Downstream-chain documentation for every kilogram leaving Maxicom premises. Quarterly business review cadence for the duration of the engagement.

What this engagement demonstrates

Single-SOW programme execution at scale. Per-asset audit trail across thousands of devices. Reuse-First refurb economics delivering settlement value substantially above destruction-first OEM trade-in counterfactuals. Audit-clean documentation passed regulator inspection at first review. Cross-border resale routing under NDA preserved channel-respect for OEM-partner relationships. The customer remained anonymised in all public communication; the engagement is referenced here only in anonymised form per our standard NDA terms.