The Road to Real Time Payments:
​Mapping Out a Successful Payments Strategy

​Presentation Date & Time:
September 16th at 11:00 AM

Presenter Information:
Name: Jim Colassano
Organization: The Clearing House
Title: SVP, Product Development & Strategy
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Presentation Description:
The payments landscape can be a complex maze to navigate for businesses and consumers, complete with a frustrating array of options and solutions from the more traditional payment “rails” to the more advanced models like RTP and Zelle. This session will help you connect the dots in the payment journey by providing a guide to this evolving landscape and practical advice on how these new, smarter payment solutions can help solve long standing pain points in the traditional payment processes while helping to improve the end user experience.

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James M. Colassano Biography

Jim Colassano is product executive for the Real Time Payment Product at The Clearing House. He has over 25 years of experience in payments & cash management, and joined TCH in 2016 to help build out and launch their new real-time payments program. He has accountability for TCH owner bank relationships with the RTP program (on-boarding, business strategy, applications and use case development), and works with all of these banks on opportunities and applications across all business and consumer use cases. He also has responsibility for corporate outreach and engagement on RTP and product expansion activities across TCH. 

Before joining TCH, Jim spent 10 years with HSBC as a Product Executive in their Payments and Cash Management group. During that period he served as the Global Product Head for HSBC’s Payables business which had responsibility for all faster payments initiatives as well as cash, check and ACH payment products worldwide. Prior to HSBC, he spent 15 years with JPMorgan Chase in a variety of cash & treasury management roles. Jim holds Masters Degrees in Banking and Finance from Pace University.