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Framework becomes daappa, the data, accounting, and administration platform for private assets

LUXEMBOURG, 17-Jan-2021 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Global fintech, Framework PEIDM, has announced a new name and brand identity – alongside a new product release – as the final phase of its multi-year digital transformation.

Building on a long pedigree, Framework has rebranded to daappa, as the firm looks to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving private asset market.

The company was acquired by Bertil Rouveure (its chairman) in 2016, following its initial sale as Accounting Frameworks to 3i Infotech in 2008. Since then, daappa has been on a journey of rejuvenation and evolution, culminating in a new management team, the opening of an office in Luxembourg, an upgrade of its core platform, the launch of new products, and new service capabilities including daappa cloud – a managed cloud and data service delivery model.

The rapid pace of change in the private asset market has underpinned the evolution of daappa.

The ‘retailisation’ or democratisation of an asset class long the preserve of very wealthy and sophisticated investors, means the industry is facing demands to become more transparent and socially responsible – against a backdrop of downward fee pressure and more stringent regulatory oversight.

Augmenting daappa’s core accounting, administration and reporting capabilities, is the launch of two new products – daappa Studio and daappa Studio+, which meet these industry challenges head on, with new value-added applications including mandate and ESG Compliance, complex investment structure Look Through, investment and operational data Analytics, a reporting, data and document Portal, and DataHub that addresses a long-held goal of many firms by creating a single source of truth for aggregated internal and external data.

Alongside this wider repositioning, daappa has undergone a cultural reboot. As a global firm, the new management team has been mindful of workers’ local traditions and customs, as well as the firm’s impact on the environment, with the launch of a new CSR initiative, mission statement and company values statement.

Bertil Rouveure, daappa Chairman, said: “Engagement with our clients and the wider industry means we know there is a clear need for the private market industry to be more open and collaborative”.

“Our team has worked diligently over the last 18 months to establish the daappa ecosystem, providing our clients with a flexible and scalable technology platform and a proactive partnership approach to client servicing.”

Karim Ali, daappa CEO said: “The initial feedback on the rebrand from our clients, prospects and consultants has been overwhelmingly positive”.

“While in the process of revamping and expanding our platform and services, we concluded the time was right to update our core values, mission, and objectives.”

“Our clients, and indeed the industry, are demanding a better user experience, transparency, interoperability and flexibility – this has been our focus”.

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About daappa

daappa is the data, accounting, and administration platform for private assets.

The daappa platform is a combination of software, cloud technology, data management and proactive client servicing designed to assist asset owners, general partners, asset managers and fund administrators to be data-driven, transparent and operationally efficient.

daappa has been purpose-built to manage complex investment, structures and funds related to private equity, debt, loans and real assets with front to back-office functionality, inbuilt workflow, reporting and data management capabilities that are delivered via a secure, managed cloud service.

We are a socially responsible global fintech with a mission to advance the democratisation of private asset markets. We are trusted by our clients to help them stay ahead of regulatory and operational change. Our agile team cares deeply about what we produce and deliver to help our clients minimise their risks and maximise their opportunities.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Luxembourg fund servicing firm Fidupar goes live with Framework’s investment and operations platform

LONDON, 13-Dec-2021 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — Framework, a specialist provider of middle and back-office technology for private markets, announces today that Luxembourg based fund advisory and administration company Fidupar S.A. is now live on Framework Core (Core) to support their Investor Services, Fund Accounting, General Ledger, and Reporting functions. Having implemented Core, Fidupar, who has seen a surge of interest in its services, can deliver sophisticated investor services to its clients, as well as an improved way to navigate the changes to existing and new regulations within the private assets market.

Nicolas Montagne, Managing Director of Fidupar, said: “Framework’s dedication in supporting and ensuring a smooth transition to our new robust platform was second to none, they clearly listened to our needs and upcoming challenges as a fund servicer. We are confident that with Core in place our clients can expect superior service. Choosing Framework as a software partner was the right decision for our business.”

With Core now embedded, Fidupar has access to a powerful tool that optimises its operational efficiency for its administrative functions, including transaction management, accounting and valuations – on a secure and open architecture cloud-hosted platform. Core also incorporates robust and flexible reporting capabilities and shareholder services including automated investor communications.

In addition to a favourable legal and tax regime, one of the main draws of Luxembourg is the highly-skilled, multilingual staff who can provide tailor-made services for international clients as are found at Fidupar. This commitment to responsiveness and focusing on the needs of customers was an attribute that Fidupar recognises in Framework too.

Craig Tyzack, Head of Delivery & Operations of Framework added: “Working with the Fidupar team allowed us to solidify the reasons they chose Framework as their software provider throughout the implementation process. We focused on understanding Fidupar’s requirements and used our industry knowledge to customise our solution to those needs. Delivering a user-friendly, robust platform to our clients is paramount.”

About Framework
Framework, founded in 2000, is a specialist provider of middle and back-office technology for private markets. Since being acquired by BRD Investments in 2016, Framework is committed to advancing open, flexible digital solutions for asset owners, managers and administrators and the evolution of private asset funds. A significant number of platform and product enhancements have been undertaken, many specifically to address the current and future requirements of leading sophisticated private asset administrators.

Framework holds a leading position with Development Bank customers in Europe and North America and in particular the UK, and services several industry-leading independent or bank-owned asset managers in Europe and the Middle East.

About Fidupar
Part of the Elate Group, Fidupar was formed at the beginning of 2000 by the contribution of the activity of the financial engineering departments of two major banks in the Luxembourg financial centre.

By focusing on the needs of our customers, we have grown considerably with the deep commitment to our historical values: responsiveness, creativity, commitment, and ambition, while maintaining a high level of ethics.

With multilingual staff specialised in different sectors, we provide tailor-made services for our international clients. Our multidisciplinary teams work in close collaboration with our clients in the realization of their projects.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

TABS Score™ adds TABS | EU Assessment to their Diligence-as-a-Service (#DaaS) platform

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., United States, 20-Jul-2020 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — TABS Score™Â has just deployed their newest addition to the suite of products available on their Diligence-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform – TABS | EU Assessment, (available in both Lite and Suite versions). The rollout was strategically timed to complement the rapidly increasing requests by TABS’ existing European (and those that focus on Europe as a market) customers, as there are quite a few differences in terms of rules, processes, and regulations that European ventures face differently than US-based startups. The new model entails the addition of several nested decision trees to augment the already-powerful nucleus of the Machine Learning algorithm, as well as a new ESG, regulatory, and analytics sections to properly address the differences between American and European resources, financing, policies, accounting practices and more. The EU version of the Assessment will mirror the US Assessment in functionality and output but will provide comparative analytics between them and their counterparts on the global market and allow companies to complete the Assessment in a language of their preference.

Mayflower Ventures, a micro-fund being formed by Wall Street Veteran Marshall Sterman, has already made the decision to integrate a Diligence-as-a-Service as part of their investment process which pitching to investors for the fund.

“Both the committed and prospective LPs love the fact that instead of asking for higher management fees to hire an analyst team in house, we are making smart lateral decisions to use a powerful software like TABS to strengthen and accompany our own internal diligence processes,” Sterman says.

As TABS expands to Europe and subsequently, their footprint across the globe, they will soon be modifying the assessment to meet the needs of ventures in other venture hotspots as well, the APAC region being the first. The comprehensiveness and ever-evolving nature of the TABS Score and its customizable solutions has made the Fin-Tech company one of the most sought-after Diligence-as-a-Service providers, with accolades coming from founders, investors, accelerators, and consultants (legal, accounting, fundraising, etc.)

TABS has already gained significant traction in the US markets, partially attributable to the Covid-19 virus and the cancellations of physical meetings. Engineered by successful serial entrepreneurs and veteran seed investors, the TABS Suite, which includes the TABS Score & Valuation assessment, has helped investors assess the viability of a business, significantly augmenting their diligence process in a fraction of the time and cost. Early-stage companies on the other hand increase the probability of attracting the attention of a potential investor by proactively going through the process.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

Introductory Financial Accounting by West Chester University Professor of Accounting Anthony J. Cataldo II

Anthony J. Cataldo II, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

West Chester, PA, Sep-2-2017 — /EPR FINANCIAL NEWS/ — A.J. Cataldo II, PhD, CPA, CMA, CGMA, a Professor of Accounting at West Chester University, has written a free or “open source” text on Introductory Financial Accounting. Feel free to download and/or distribute: http://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/acc_texts/1/. (The text downloads, best, as separate chapters).

Additional information on Professor Cataldo is available on LinkedIn and Google Scholar. His Seeking Alpha articles are, also, available at no cost, and he writes a weekly subscription-based column, THE CANNABIS REPORT, for InvestorsHub (IHUB).

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Lyon Equipment’s New Supply Chain Solution Will Eliminate Paper Job Cards And Move Document Management Online

Outdoor pursuits and training specialists Lyon Equipment is future-proofing its organisation with a new ERP solution from Access which will automate many manual processes, increase efficiency, and move document management online. The 40 user Access Supply Chain solution is part of a modernisation process Lyon is going through which includes a £3.5 million investment in a new building.

Access’ manufacturing and supply chain offering will revamp Lyon’s returns and manufacturing processes, and support the company as it continues to grow over the next ten years. Rick Cockayne, IT project manager at Lyon, said, “Our business is growing and Access Supply Chain offered us the flexibility to support our planned growth. We were also very impressed with the integrated document management system.”

With two arms to the business; distribution & wholesale, and training courses, as well as some manufacturing there are a lot of paper-based processes in place. “We’re going to be putting everything online from equipment specs and training details to sales invoices and purchase orders. Our manufacturing job cards are currently hand written, and not easily tracked. We’ll be using Access to generate job cards directly from sales orders and track them through to completion. We will therefore be able to easily report on them on a continual basis with no additional effort.” continued Rick.

The new solution will also allow Lyon to modernise its returns system, saving a lot of time and effort. “We currently have a separate returns data base which means there is additional work re-keying information into our current accounts software. With Access Supply Chain we’ll use workflow forms to create a tailored returns system to our design. This will mean we can easily process the return all the way through to credit or replacement all on the one system, removing the additional work and reducing the chances of keying in errors. This will greatly improve the efficiency and simplify the reporting of our returns processing.” said Rick.

“We liked the look and feel of Access Supply Chain from the start, and theflexibility of the product was also a huge plus point. It’s easy-to-use and has more in it than a lot of the other solutions we looked at. It also filled us with confidence to work with the UK author of the product who we felt were willing to look after our needs from the moment we engaged with them,” Rick concluded.

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Never Reorder Bank Checks with ezCheckPersonal MICR Check Printing Software

Personal check printing software has become the more and more popular owing to the efficiency and convenience it provides its users. Anyone fed up with writing checks by hand or complicated check-writing software that takes forever can find new satisfaction in the latest edition of ezCheckPersonal check writing software developed by Halfpricesoft.com.

New features in the latest edition ofezCheckPersonal make check writing even faster and easier. ezCheckPersonal is the personal and home-use version of the popular check writing software from software developer Halfpricesoft.com. The newly released version of ezCheckPersonal includes two new time-saving and money-saving features:

– Add a new check by duplicating an old check
– Import/Export features

The duplicating old check feature speeds up check printing for checks that are similar to previous checks. When customers write a check for a monthly bill, they can save the information so they can write checks for future months with just a couple clicks of the mouse. This can save a lot of time in paying bills or writing checks for other frequent payments. Once the old check information is imported, the user can modify amounts, dates and other information as needed.

All software from Halfpricesoft.com, including ezCheckPersonal, is designed to be incredibly easy to use. Customers can begin printing checks within minutes of downloading and installing the software. The intuitive graphical interface leads users step by step through the check writing and printing process.

“Simple, easy, fast. That’s what computer software should be,” said Halfpricesoft.com founder Dr. Ge. “You shouldn’t need a programming degree or accounting background to use personal finance or check writing software. That’s why we made ezCheckPersonal so simple and easy to use.”

The best of all, customers can try ezCheckPersonal for free , even get the full version forFREE.

Customers can go online to http://www.halfpricesoft.com/check-printing-software.asp and try ezCheckPersonal free for 30 days. This is a risk-free way for customers to see whether they like the software and make sure it meets their needs. The software customers download is fully functional for 30 days. After 30 days, customers must purchase a license key to unlock ezCheckPersonal for unlimited use. License keys can be purchased online for just $24 per installation.

Additionally, a special offer through TrialPay allows customers to get the full, unlimited version of ezCheckPersonal for free simply by trying products and services from partnering companies. Details are online.

ezCheckPersonal Software Feature List
– Support unlimited bank accounts
– Print your own checks on blank computer checks
– Print image logo and signature on checks
– Edit check layout and create customized personal checks
– Easy to use reports
– Easy data import/export
– Support multiple blank personal check formats (3 or 4 checks per page)

For more information about ezCheckPersonal and Halfpricesoft.com, please visit ezCheckPersonal software page online at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/check-printing-software.asp.

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Print Your Bank Check at $0 Cost in House

Halfpricesoft.com, a leading provider of easy-to-use payroll software and check printing software for accountants, small to medium size businesses and families, give buyers a new way to get free products by partnering with TrialPay, the leader in alternative online payments. Buyers can now get full version check printing software and Laser Blank Computer Check Paper for Free when they try or buy an offer from one of TrialPay’s 2,000 blue-chip advertisers.

ezCheckPersonal is a personal check designing and check printing software for personal use. With ezCheckPersonal, users can have the flexibility to print quality bank checks immediately in a secure environment. Users will never run out of checks and users are never left with stacks of unused preprinted checks when the bank changes names or you move to a new address. It saves users time and money in a variety of ways

ezCheckpersonal check writing and printing software Highlights:

1. Support Unlimited Bank Accounts
2. Print your own checks on blank computer check
3. Print image signature on checks
4. Edit check layout and create customized personal checks;
5. Easy to use reports
6. Easy export data
7. Print Blank Personal Check
8. Support multiple personal blank check format (3 or 4 checks per page)

This software is available for free download with no cost and no obligation at:http://www.halfpricesoft.com/check-printing-software.asp

Other FREE special offers available through TrialPay include: FREE Blank check paper, w2/w3 red form package, 1099/1096 red form package, business check writing software and printing software.

Customers can get more information at:
http://www.halfpricesoft.com/business-free-special-offer.asp.

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Hays Taxation has revealed that expatriate tax professionals are in high demand

Hays Taxation, the UK and Ireland’s premier specialist in tax jobs, has revealed that there is currently a high demand for expatriate tax professionals.

Hays Taxation has suggested that those who may be specialising in expatriate tax in today’s market could broaden their experience by including US work. Those who are working within practice who wish to move in house might also benefit from a secondment spell. This not only allows the individual to develop their skills working on the other side of the fence but also offers the opportunity to try their hand at tax jobs or treasury jobs before deciding on the right career move. Those holding qualifications such as the ATT (Association of Taxation Technicians), CTA (Chartered Tax Advisor) or US Enrolled Agent will find themselves at an advantage, according to Hays, particularly if they wish to work for one of the Big 4 accountancy and professional services firms, namely Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG.

“The expatriate tax market is buoyant and candidates are proving extremely marketable within practice, both in the big 4 and in boutique consultancies,” commented Gemma Reeves, director at Hays Taxation in London.

“All candidates looking to move into a new tax role should highlight recent experience, achievements and successes,” she continued. “Being flexible on location can often open up a wide range of opportunities especially if you have very specific experience. Tax is a great sector to work in as it offers so much diversity and opportunity.”

Hays Taxation is the UK and Ireland’s premier specialist in tax jobs, providing taxation professionals to organisations in the practice, commercial and financial services sectors. With nine offices around the UK, Hays Taxation is unique in having locally based, specialist consultants who can make the best connections for candidates and help them find the most applicable tax job in the UK. The in-depth market knowledge of the tax team means that the candidate’s career is in the hands of industry experts.

About Hays Taxation:
Hays Taxation is part of Hays plc, the leading global specialist recruitment group. It is market leader in the UK and Australia, and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe. At the end of June 2008, the Group employed 8,872 staff operating from 393 offices in 27 countries across 17 specialisms including recruitment for finance jobs, accounting jobs and audit jobs.

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