Collin Canright
📍Chicago
Collin Canright is a seasoned communications consultant who thrives on making complex technologies understandable to business and technology leaders.
Focus
→ Financial technology (FinTech)
→ Payments
→ Treasury management
→ Media
→ Leadership
“The drive towards faster payments isn’t merely about speed—it’s about revolutionizing the way we perceive and conduct financial exchanges in the digital age.”
Background
Principal, Canright Communications
Editor and Publisher, FinTech Rising
Co-Founder, Chicago Payments Forum
Technical Communications Consultant, Northern Trust
Technical Communications Lead, Citadel
Managing Editor, Journal of Electronic Commerce
Technology Talk Columnist, Independent Banker Magazine
🎓 University of Missouri-Columbia
🎓 BA, Indiana University BloomingtonBiography
Collin Canright is a seasoned communications consultant who thrives on making complex technologies understandable to business and technology leaders. As principal of Canright Communications, he coordinates thought leadership, marketing communications, and software documentation projects, with an emphasis on Payments and FinTech communications.
Canright has worked with global financial institutions, hedge funds, FinTech startups, international IT firms, consulting firms, software developers, manufacturers, associations, and publishers. His articles and reports appear in leading financial publications, including American Banker, TabbFORUM, and Independent Banker, as well as his own FinTech Rising blog. Collin also produces payments events in Chicago through the Chicago Payments Forum.
Collin became fascinated with electronic banking and payments in the mid-1980s and continues to work with banks and financial technology firms. He has written bylined articles and marketing materials for global and regional banks. His current interest is the future of money, banking, and payments, which he covers in his own weekly email and in marketing work for clients.
Collin is the co-author or ghostwriter of six books, including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Kabbalah, Put the Win Back in Your Sales, and Electronic Data Interchange: A Guide for Health Care Institutions.
Collin served as managing editor of The Journal of Electronic Commerce and contributed sections on electronic commerce to “Bringing Health Care Online,” a report published by the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress. He is a former editor of CASHFLOW magazine, where he wrote and edited articles about corporate treasury management and electronic banking, and was staff writer for EDI EXECUTIVE newsletter.
An early interest in computers as a means of delivering news led Collin to KEYCOM Electronic Publishing Co. in 1984. He worked as an overnight news editor for KEYFAX, the company’s interactive videotext service. Collin began his career in 1977, working evenings and summers as a government and environmental affairs reporter at his family’s newspaper, The Chesterton Tribune, which ceased publication as a family-owned and run business in December 2020.
He lives in Chicago with his wife and best friend, Christina. Their interest in media, film, and music had more than a passing influence on their daughter, Lilli. She is a graduate student in fine arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts and works on video and theater productions in cities across the European Union.
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Briefs
→ Canright Communications
4.⌞ Faster Payments for Faster Times ↗
