Software for Development Banks

daappa holds a leading position in providing software for development banks across Europe and North America. We understand the unique mission and challenges you face, including the necessity to balance functional and technical requirements to achieve your investment goals and reporting requirements. 

Discover how our software can empower your organisation to meet its objectives more effectively.

Development Banks

Understanding your needs

Our solution is designed to meet the unique demands of the public sector, ensuring accountability and transparency while operating on modern, secure, and scalable technology. We prioritise the highest standards of information security, safeguarding your data while maintaining cost efficiency. With daappa, you can confidently operate a system that delivers value for money, robust protection, and the flexibility to scale as your needs evolve.

A unified platform that integrates teams across investment, financing, compliance, reporting, and operations, streamlining the management of both direct and indirect investments, including those supported by government funding and co-investment initiatives.

Transform data into actionable insights with dynamic dashboards and reports, empowering teams to make informed decisions, monitor co-investor performance, and achieve greater transparency across portfolios.

Automate and secure communications with investors and investee companies. Streamline the collection and validation of financial data, including budgets and forecasts, and manage the onboarding and report delivery process.

Automate and minimise manual data entry by streamlining data sharing across platforms. Direct API integration allows for the seamless creation of reference data and transaction posting, reducing administrative overheads. Operate within a managed cloud-based system that enhances efficiency and supports smooth, real-time data flow between your systems and external platforms.

daappa Core & Studio+

Specialist Investment Management Software for
Development Banks

daappa Core with Studio+ is an integrated front-to-back-office solution that unifies stakeholders on a common platform for direct and indirect equity and debt/credit fund investments. 

  • Driven by our Business Process Builder, you can track and monitor Potential Investments and Actual Investments.

  • Each business process type is defined with a configurable status control table, managing various workflow statuses, user-defined field triggers, deadline controls, and status ownership. This allows full control of the process through dashboards and reports (daappa Analyser).

  • Deal tracking for both investments and exits supports a managed process that monitors progress and provides historical analysis. Reciprocity offers insights into the source of deals and the financial relationships between partners and co-investors.

  • Track and control the status of each Potential Investment, identify investees and co-investors involved in current and historic deals, build up accounting and KPI details of the target investment, and link to due diligence documentation needed for the investment to progress. If the investment proceeds, this information remains available throughout the life of the investment.

  • daappa Studio+ Analytics allows users to create custom dashboards, reports, and charts, enabling the monitoring of investments and operational workflows. This interactive tool provides access to key financial indicators, pre-calculated balances, pricing data, IRRs, KPIs, and ESG metrics across assets and funds, facilitating unique modelling and data reporting.

  • Default dashboards are customisable to meet your exact needs, including:

    • Fund KPI Report: Displays a fund’s inception-to-date performance multiples, such as DPI, RVPI, and TVPI.
    • Fund Investment Allocation Report: Shows a fund’s cost allocation breakdown by region, industry sector, and currency, with enhancements to view by fund investors and date range.
    • Investment Sector Analysis Report: Provides investment analysis by industry sector, available globally across all investments managed in the system.
    • Portfolio Summary Report: Presents a global summary of direct investments, with drill-down capabilities by fund group, fund, investment, and investment security.
    • Investment Summary Report: Summarises each investment, including equity, loans, investors, holdings, costs, valuation trends, and ESG metrics.
    • Portfolio Monitoring Report: Enquiries on monitoring data collected through Portfolio Monitoring in Core, supporting investment management decisions.
    • Fund IRR Report: Shows the evolution of IRR between a fund and portfolio investments, with a time-series chart and cashflow data.
    • Portfolio Report: Displays a fund’s consolidated investments summary, with key metrics including loan principal, gross cost, net cost, revenue, and outstanding interest.
    • Source of Funds/Matching Report: Breaks down portfolio investments between public and private sector funding, with syndication partners and other investors outlined through charts and tables.
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  • daappa provides all the functionality needed to set up and maintain your Investment Book of Records (IBOR) for both private assets and any quoted investments within your portfolios.

  • Complex fund structures can be managed and reported on, tracking layers of funds, SPVs, and investments to identify investor exposure to underlying assets.

  • Transactions are recorded using business-specific transaction codes, enabling refined reporting in line with specific accounting standards and regulatory requirements.

  • FX rates and price feeds can be loaded to enable automatic revaluations, including those for quoted investments.

  • Equity Funding Structures allow you to record and manage the ownership structure of an Investment Company, capturing third-party investors (co-investors). This information is centrally stored and can be reviewed and analysed in various forms, such as ‘what-if’ scenarios, debt summaries, voting summaries, exit analyses, and the impact of dilution scenarios.

  • Ownership data also feeds into the valuation process, supporting comprehensive analysis throughout the investment lifecycle. Successive rounds of capital restructuring are tracked to maintain a history of financing evolution.

  • All investors’ investment data is held within daappa, allowing the building of profiles and investment communications to meet regulatory and investor obligations.
  • Enables monitoring of relationships and seamless communication with investors when a potential investor chooses to invest in your funds.
  • CRM functionality identifies and includes all contacts associated with a particular investor in relevant communications.
  • Mail merge functionality flows directly from the transaction input screens, ensuring notifications can be sent to investors accurately and efficiently.
  • Bank instructions can be formatted (e.g., SWIFT) ready to be passed to banking software.
  • Investor reports are available as standard or can be designed to suit specific needs, with intuitive reporting tools allowing control and adjustments without the need to involve daappa.
  • Subscription to daappa Studio+ enables the production and sharing of high-quality professional notices related to portfolio settlements and onboarding documents to meet investor KYC and AML responsibilities.
  • Automate the collection and validation of regular updates from investee companies, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of data before it’s approved for use in your datasets.

  • Collect both quantitative and qualitative data, including accounting metrics, KPIs, ESG, and SFDR metrics, at any stage of the investment lifecycle. Data is stored for easy comparison across investments and to track changes over time.

  • Define and update relevant data points, collection frequency, and applicable periods, adapting to emerging standards like ESG or adding impact-weighted statistics as needed.

  • Produce analyses such as KPIs, historical budgets, industry comparisons, and long-term forecasts. Generate performance and valuation reports for both funds and direct investments.

  • Collected data is readily available for valuations, market reports, compliance assessments, and on-demand reporting. It can be integrated into daappa Studio Analytics dashboards, which users can customise to meet evolving requirements.

  • Extractor AI is an innovative solution for streamlining data sourcing, management, and aggregation. Extractor can turn structured and unstructured scanned tabular data from PDFs into enriched and context-sensitive data with unparalleled accuracy.
  • Controlled algorithmic process for the preparation, review, and approval of investment valuations.
  • Based on periodic updates from investment companies, transaction data, tracked indices, FX rates, and user-defined data points.
  • Valuations can be set up to follow a regular cycle and controlled via dashboards.
  • Can be for the entire enterprise and allocated to specific investors through a maintainable ownership structure or calculated separately for each security within the fund.
  • Calculate valuations based on BVCV, EVCA, or in-house methods and automatically allocate the ‘enterprise value’ across the loan and equity structure.
  • Define up to ten different valuations per investment, each valuation type can be used for different purposes such as:
    • NAV & GAV algorithms
    • Accounting valuation
    • Fair market value
    • Investment director’s valuation
    • Exit valuations
  • For each valuation, use either the algorithmic valuation or manual valuation posting routines.
  • Supports what-if valuation modelling.
  • Quoted investments can be priced via an external feed.
  • All valuation types can be used to calculate IRRs.
  • Allows for postings to be entered once and then automatically generate aggregation and allocation routines to the appropriate funds in the hierarchy.
  • Drawdown and distribution transactions can be allocated across investors using flexible allocation rules, including investors’ commitments, undrawn amounts, and the priority of any series that have been set up. Rounding rules can be observed.
  • Definable transaction codes can be used to clarify the purpose of each amount drawn and repaid, including recallable distributions that can be identified and tracked separately.
  • Partnership fund investments are tracked at the investor level to enable a partner’s exposure to each investment to be tracked.
  • Monitors the underlying (shadow) investments of the funds, with investments held directly or indirectly via funds, allowing for aggregation and comparison of valuations.
  • Corporate funds can be managed as open-ended or closed, with an algorithmic model for calculating the NAV of the fund. This uses fund-level transactions to track the P&L movements, expenses and income, and realised and unrealised gains/losses.
  • Once approved, the NAV is posted automatically, is available for reporting, and can be used as the basis for subsequent investor transactions.
  • Transfers of an investor’s interest to one or more new investors in a fund can be posted using various rule sets to ensure that historical transactions are presented as required.
  • Enables all capital accounting transactions to be recorded, including capital calls, distributions, and transfers of interest.
  • Capital accounting statements can be displayed in an enquiry or printed in a formal report, including all drawdown amounts, fees, charges, and distributions.
  • Provides a management fee algorithm that can be modified fund by fund as required, or additional fund management fee algorithms can be created.
  • Fund invoicing allows the recording of both expense and income invoices at the fund level and the subsequent control of payment.
  • Includes reverse charge VAT and realised FX on differences between invoice settlement and bank clearing date.
  • Capital and portfolio transaction postings will automatically create GL journal entries that can populate daappa’s inbuilt general ledger or your existing external ledger system.
  • Flexible coding structure can be set up to reflect GL classifications.
  • Allows for a nominal breakdown for investment/partner analysis.
  • Postings can be made to the GL as real-time entries or as a monthly summary.
  • Excel add-in for uploading and downloading journals and financial data such as account information, actuals, budgets, etc., and standard financial statements.
  • Define the chart of accounts and the rules that determine how each transaction will be allocated.
  • Each fund will be posted in the designated currency of the fund alongside any currency accounts that are held by the fund.
  • Allows multi-currency transactions and revaluation routines.
  • Fully featured ledger with budgets, profiles, and cost centres.
  • Flexible chart of accounts and a segmented account code structure.
  • F/X revaluation for realised and unrealised exchange differences.
  • Cost allocations and multiple journal types, including repeating journals, accruals, and prepayment journals, multi-company.
  • GAAP and IFRS accounting standards are accommodated using an aggregation facility which enables accounts to be combined and reallocated.
  • Provides standard reports for financial reporting (including IFRS9), market reporting (such as BCL, INREV, FATCA, and CRS), and performance reporting such as IRRs with many parameters to customise to specific needs.
  • Reports can be adapted and created to reflect specific requirements and include extra data that may have been chosen for collection.
  • Contains a powerful data enquiry and reporting function called Analyser that allows control over creating sophisticated data extracts and reports.
  • The database can be queried, sorted, and filtered on many combinations and permutations of data using drag-and-drop and report builder.
  • Custom calculations can be defined so that virtually any measurement ratio or factor can be supported.
  • Reports can be exported in a range of formats including CSV, XLSX, PDF, RTF, TXT, and HTML.
  • Scheduling of regular reports is controlled using the inbuilt task runner.

Case Study

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise, Scotland’s leading economic development agency, has advanced its digital transformation with a significant upgrade of their Investment Management Reporting
System (IMRS) to the more sophisticated daappa Studio+. Building on a strong partnership since 2007, daappa has transitioned the original ‘Framework’ platform to meet both the contemporary and future needs of Scottish Enterprise.

daappa benefits

Why daappa

End to End Functionality for Private Assets

Multi asset, class & currency
Private equity, debt, funds, real assets
Transaction and report driven processing

Open Architecture & Data Management

Automate & centralise multiple data sources
Cloud-hosted Microsoft technologies
Secure & encrypted document exchange

Operational Efficiency & Scale

Built-for-purpose integrated solutions
Single source of truth data model
Scalable technology platform

Risk Mitigation & Transparency

Granular user access control
Maker / Checker / Approval workflow
Full audit history reporting

Operating Model Flexibility

‘No code’ dashboard, data field and workflow builder
Business process designer & task runner
Self service reports & data extract builder

Proactive, Collaborative Supplier

Managed cloud and ecosystem services

Transparent pricing model
Collaborative roadmap and quarterly releases

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