Ahmed Baycan

Ahmed specializes in banking regulatory law, payment services law and capital markets regulation.

He assists financial institutions in fulfilling their regulatory obligations vis-à-vis the competent supervisory authorities and, in particular, in BaFin licensing procedures, outsourcing projects, regulatory capital and reporting requirements as well as due diligence and organizational obligations (e.g. CRR, CRD, KWG, MaRisk, BAIT, GwG, BaFin-AuA, IVV, WpHG, MaComp).

He also has special expertise in fintech regulation (esp. BaFin licensing procedures for crypto services).

Furthermore, he supports clients in regulatory due diligence projects, owner control proceedings according to Section 2c KWG and in questions regarding audit findings in the area of regulatory requirements.

Work highlights

• Otto Group: advising on obtaining BaFin authorization for OTTO Payments to provide payment services.
• Several CRR credit institutions: advising on the permission process for the provision of crypto custody business as well as crypto securities registry services.
• Deposit Solutions: regulatory advice on the merger of two major interest rate platforms, Raisin and Deposit Solutions.
• RatePay, real,- Digital and Zalando Payments: advising on corporate governance issues as well as further regulatory requirements as a payment/e-money institution.
• Several regulated as well as non-regulated companies: advising on their strategic considerations in connection with payment services and crypto services, in particular on corporate governance issues, risk management as well as compliance and money laundering issues.

Ahmed worked as an auditor and consultant, among other things, until 2019. Since 2019, he has been working in the area of regulatory law at Linklaters. In 2019, he also completed a secondment at Credit Suisse AG (Germany). 

Ahmed studied economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He also completed a Master of Laws in Mergers & Acquisitions and a certification as a Certified Compliance Professional, with a focus on capital market compliance, at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Frankfurt am Main. In addition, he participated in the certificate courses Credit Risk Manager and Regulatory Reporting Specialist at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. 

He speaks German, English and Turkish.

Recent publications include:

• “M&A im Bankensektor; Bedeutung und Auswirkungen des Inhaberkontrollverfahrens“

He also publishes regularly for Frankfurt School Verlag.