[fiftyacorn]

I download the statements once a year and also export as a spreadsheet, and store on a laptop and cloud

I wish organisations had a annual batch download for this stuff to make it quicker. I keep thinking ill write a script - but then its quicker to just download one at a time

[iop]

Unfortunately some banks only have transaction history going back 6 months or so.

PDF statements are available for longer but they are rather worthless because they are hard to parse.

[psyklic]

It's not a bank, but Amazon lets you download very detailed purchase history as a CSV file (over any time period).