Bengaluru: Lendingkart Technologies Private Limited, India’s leading fin-tech company today announced the appointment of Nagarajan S as its Chief RiskOfficer. Based in Bangalore, Nagarajan will manage the risk operations at Lendingkart.
A seasoned financial services professional with over 22 years, Nagarajan S. brings solid cross-functional experience in banking and financial services having successfully led Risk Management across Retail Banking Segment and SME segment across multiple geographies including India, US, South Asia&South-East Asia with in-depth experience of managing diverse groups.
Commenting on the appointment, Harshavardhan Lunia, Co-Founder and CEO, Lendingkart said, “In the recent times, while digital lending industry has seen rapid growth with limitless opportunities, as the industry grows/evolves it is imperative to put in place a robust and a future-ready risk management framework. We are delighted to onboard Nagarajan, a seasoned professional who brings over two decades of experience combining the best from traditional risk management practices while leveraging technology best practices harnessed by Lendingkart to build a solid enterprise level risk culture. We believe Nagarajanis a valuable addition to the Lendingkart family and will play an instrumental role in our journey ahead.”
Commenting on his appointment with Lendingkart, Nagarajan S., Chief Risk Officer, Lendingkart said,“Since its inception, Lendingkart has been consistently shaping India’s digital lending ecosystem backed by pioneering technologies and robust customer-focused platform. I look forward to joining this industry at this exciting phase, to further streamline and create growth opportunities for Lendingkart, assessing potential risk challenges to strengthen its market leadership.”
Nagarajan S. joins Lendingkart from Standard Chartered Bank where he served as the Regional Head of Retail Risk Operations-South Asia, responsible for overseeing Underwriting and Fraud Risk Management across all retail asset products. Apart from the functional responsibilities, Nagarajan was also responsible for driving standardization, automation and simplification related improvements for Risk operations resulting in cost optimization, improving operational efficiencies without diluting any of the key risk metrics of performance.
Prior to Standard Chartered, Nagarajan was the Country Risk Manager for Nissan Renault Financial Services India Private Limited, a captive sales finance NBFC. During his tenure, Nagarajan implemented a critical retail customer acquisition scorecard as well as served as the KYC and AML officer for NRFSI.
Nagarajan spent 16 years of his career with GE Capital’s Consumer financing business, in diverse roles across Sales, Operations, Credit and Collections, IT and Risk Management across different product lines.
