Prathima Rajan

Analyst

prajan@celent.com

Recent Reports

Prathima Rajan is an analyst at Celent and is based in Bangalore, India. Ms. Rajan's proficiency lies in the retail banking, microfinance, rural banking, and electronic payments domains. Prior to Celent, Ms. Rajan was serving as research analyst for Brickwork, India, where she assisted a US-based financial consulting firm in its sector study of the US financial industry.

Previously, Ms. Rajan was a senior research analyst for a knowledge management company in India, where she conducted a variety of research and projects in the field of microfinance, rural financing, retail industry and country opportunity, and risk analysis. She also supported one of the leading Australian financial players in setting up a branch in India, where she assisted the organization in understanding the Indian economy and India's financial services industry. She was in charge of country opportunity and risk profiles for the Asia-Pacific region.

Ms. Rajan holds a postgraduate degree in management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore, India. She is fluent in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and English.

Recent reports include:

Title Date
Overview of Islamic Banking Technology Vendors 7/13/2009
Indian Mobile Banking: Unexplored Opportunity 6/29/2009
Rise of Islamic Banking in the Asia-Pacific Region 1/12/2009
Payments in India Going the e-Way 10/8/2008
La Microfinance vue de l'Inde 7/22/2008
Microfinance-Indian Perspective 5/23/2008
Equities Markets in Asia: Magnet for Foreign Capital Inflows 3/18/2008
Aperçu du Marché bancaire indien 12/28/2007
Overview of Indian Banking Market 12/11/2007