Serhat Aslan

Serhat Aslan,

Serhat was born in Kayseri, November 1978. He attended primary and elementary schools in Samsun, and then enrolled in Antep Science School. He graduated with bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Middle East Technical University in 2001. Serhat holds a MS in Finance from The George Washington University Business School, where he gained plentiful experience in the field of corporate finance, financial modeling, financial markets, portfolio management, financial econometrics and statistics.

After graduating from college, he had been hired as e-marketing analyst in Basari Electronics amid the challenges of 2001 financial crisis of Turkey that the whole country was suffering. Despite the scarcity of business initiatives of internet sales, he created campaigns to promote the firm’s online and e-marketing projects and spearheaded an e-magazine project, successfully launched the number of newsletter members from 0 to 20,000.

Later, he served as Bank Examiner at Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency after completing successfully the three-phased entrance examination. In 11 years as an on-site bank examiner, he has supervised and regulated more than 20 financial institutions including large conventional banks, investment banks, Islamic banks, troubled banks, and leasing and factoring companies. 

Throughout his career, he has hands-on expertise in risk-based supervision, BASEL II&III implementation, bank resolution, consolidated supervision, crisis management, stress testing, AML examinations, financial inclusion and consumer protection. Along with his experience, he had carried out many initiatives by presenting diverse set of working papers covering broad range of issues including risk based supervision, IAS and IFRS practices, necessary amendments to be made in AML regulations, guidelines of loan valuation and financial inclusion and consumer protection.

He has been working as a financial consultant, advising on preparing business plan, growth plan and strategies and financial valuation for startups in diverse sectors.

Area of Experts : Banking, Loan Valuation, Risk Management and Ratings, Financial Inclusion and Consumer Protection, AML Regulations, Internal Audit Control Systems, Consultancy and Audit on Retail Marketing, and CRM Advisory