Alaina Gimbert

Biography

Alaina Gimbert serves as in-house counsel to The Clearing House Payments Company with responsibility for supporting the company’s payment systems.  Her work includes providing legal support to CHIPS®, a systemically important, high value funds transfer system, as well as the RTP® System, a real-time inter-bank payment system. Gimbert is also responsible for following policy, regulatory, legislative and litigation developments with respect to payments, economic sanctions and financial crimes and engaging with regulators and industry participants to advance the interests of The Clearing House and its owner banks.  In recent years she has been closely involved with cross-border payments matters such as ISO 20022 implementation, projects to link the RTP System with instant payment systems in other countries, and private sector engagement with the Financial Stability Board’s cross-border payments initiative.  She is a frequent industry speaker and an author and editor of payments-related articles and treatises. Prior to joining The Clearing House in 2011 Gimbert was counsel to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, supporting its Retail Payments Office.

She received both her BA and JD degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.