Regulators, auditors, lenders. Different audiences, one discipline: preparing project plans and financial documentation that stand up to scrutiny, and evaluating files before lenders test them.
I'm Fatma Taylan, and FTA&C is my practice.
My career began in audit with Deloitte, KPMG, and Ernst & Young, working across major international banks, insurers, and reinsurers. That grounding—evidence, documentation, testing what a file actually supports rather than what it claims—has shaped everything since.
For the last fifteen years, I have led complex change programmes and prepared regulatory submissions for financial institutions in London. My work has included running major finance transformations and data platform integration projects, implementing target operating models, securing Third Country Branch authorisation from the PRA for a global insurer post-Brexit, delivering Solvency II implementations for Lloyd's market clients, and leading firm-wide sustainability and climate risk implementations to meet both EU CSRD requirements and PRA supervisory expectations. Throughout, I have reported directly to Boards and executive steering committees, engaging directly with regulators including the PRA, the FCA, and Lloyd's of London.
What that institutional work has in common with project finance is more than it appears. In both, a strong underlying proposition fails not on its merits but on its evidence base: gaps in documentation, models that don't reconcile, governance that can't be demonstrated, assumptions no one can trace. My discipline is gap analysis and remediation—establishing what a demanding reviewer will expect, testing honestly against it, and closing the distance.
Alongside that UK institutional work, I have spent over a decade working with a North American project finance firm as a consultant to support their due diligence processes—evaluating business plans, financial projections, feasibility studies, and funding documentation against lender requirements. I have assessed projects spanning $10M–$250M+ across key asset classes, including real estate development, energy, infrastructure, and healthcare (such as hospital construction). That review work has taken me to project sites across Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, and Chad, meeting sponsors, contractors, and technical advisers on the ground.
I am a qualified accountant (registered member of The Istanbul Chamber of Certified Public Accountants), Prince2 qualified, and I hold a BBA from Marmara University in Istanbul. Turkish is my first language, and my background gives me a working familiarity with how business is actually done across Türkiye, the Gulf, and their commercial networks—relationships, patience, and protocol, not just term sheets.
FTA&C has no associates learning on your project, and no overhead priced into your fee.
Having spent my career leading multidisciplinary teams and managing third-party advisers—including technical consultants, accountants, legal and regulatory advisors, tax specialists, ESG consultants, and market research specialists—I know how to coordinate complex team structures. Where an engagement calls for specialist input, I bring in trusted experts on a per-engagement basis and manage them directly. You are told who is involved and why, and you deal with one accountable point of contact throughout.
This is the model, not a limitation of it. Project preparation work is judgement-intensive and detail-intensive. It does not benefit from being spread across a team.
I am not a placement agent and I do not raise money. I don't promise introductions to lenders or guarantee financing.
What I do is make a project defensible: complete documentation, coherent models, traceable assumptions, and evidenced governance—so that when a financier's due diligence starts, the answers are already there.
The first conversation is fifteen minutes and costs nothing. If the practice isn't the right fit, I'll tell you.
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