John Patrick Mullin is a businessman, a lecturer, a writer and a great fan of fintech and finance. ;education. John is currently a research analyst at the Guotai Junan Securities & Finance Institute. the FinTech connector. He also advises several Blockchain companies in Hong Kong, Switzerland and the United States. He talks about his experience working in the Chinese financial sector for LinkedIn China, and cryptocurrencies and fintech innovation for Cointelegraph.

We met John at BlockShow Asia to talk about these issues that are not generally discussed by him. an author Cointelegraph – his background, travel, education and personal views on community development.

Cointelegraph: We are here today with John Patrick Mullin, Community Partner at FinTech Connector. Community, connector – how do you really feel, what role do you play?

John Patrick Mullin: Yes, of course. Let me explain what FinTech Connector is as a whole. FinTech Connector is a global community of fintech-minded people. It was founded by a guy named Angel Lorente in New York. He was born from the MIT Fintech coworking community. They sit in the classroom, and Angel, who works at Morgan Stanley, started meeting local people in New York, where he worked. First of all, it started with only two people talking in a fintech bar, which ended up increasing in the first month to 30 people. Now, we are 19 cities, 19 communities in 13 countries – that's in just one year. Our mission is to try to connect the global fintech community through our local leadership, I would say. We connect innovators with our fintech entrepreneurs, start-ups with fintech experts, veterans, people with capital, technology, etc.

We do it on a global scale. The problem we are trying to solve is really that you have a lot of Fintech communities, but they are regional, very localized, but we are already global. We are in every continent except Australia and the Arctic, but Australia arrives very quickly. It's a bit what we try to do. It's really about what we are trying to do locally, I mean, I run the Shanghai FinTech Connector with my partner Rold. We try to educate, educate, develop and do events to build a community locally to better support our global ambition, I guess.

CT: Well, it's a great initiative. We are here at a community meeting in Singapore. How do you feel about being at BlockShow Asia and how do you find this community that has come together today?

JOHN: Up to here, very much, honestly. Thank you very much for having me first. I am currently writing for Cointelegraph, so very happy to be part not only of Cointelegraph's writing community, but also of the Blockshow which is an offline event. FinTech Connector has a cowork in Singapore, and we are here today, which is very nice for me to see. It was really nice to be part of and see how I am in Shanghai is also able to connect with people in Singapore. You see how small the community is, everyone knows each other, but it's a very close community and it's always good to work together, to be fintech's intelligence , Blockchain, crypto-currencies, etc.

[19459005CT:Doyouthinktherearedifferencesbetweencommunitiesindifferentplaces?IwanttosayinAsiainEurope?UnitedStates?

JOHN: Oh, 100%! Even in China. China is a very, very big country. You see differences between Beijing and Shanghai. It's very regionalised, it's very localized and there are definitely differences in the way people act, what you look at. Hong Kong has a way to be within the fintech community, Singapore has another. China is very, very different too. I am personally a bit focused on Asia, although I come from the West, I have not lived there for a long time. But you will certainly see differences depending on where you are going to be.

CT: You mentioned MIT. Is this your origin?

JOHN: I did not go to MIT. MIT had an online course on information technology titled The Future of Commerce and it involved the analysis of large data. With EdX, he started to become smarter. They did it, I suppose, two years ago. More recently, they have partnered with Oxford, so they do Oxford fintech courses. In fact, I'm participating in that right now. It's a pretty interesting course so far. This is really good for network connections. I even met some of my colleagues from Oxford today who posted it on our small group Telegram, which is pretty cool. I have met people in Hong Kong. I met even some of the teachers who came from Shanghai. It's really a great opportunity to network with people from the fintech community and I've provided theoretical support for a general understanding of fintech

CT: Speaking of the # 39, academy and basic inspiration. What was your recent reading that inspired you most?

JOHN: The recent reading that has inspired me the most … Uh, good! To be honest, it may not be so specific to Blockchain and cryptocurrency, but one of my favorite personal books … Well, actually, I have two . The first is "Dealing with China" by Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, then Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush. He talked about his experiences and how he did business with China – and that really inspired me a lot. The second would be the book "One Hour in China" by Jeffrey Towson and Jonathan Woetzel. Jeffrey Towson is a professor at Peking University, Peking University and Jonathan Woetzel is a partner at McKinsey in Shanghai. They wrote a book that condenses everything you need to know about China in an hour. This has inspired me to write a lot about Chinese consumers. I do a lot of writing. I write for LinkedIn in China, I write for Cointelegraph. These two books have formed me in what I'm trying to do.

CT: Interesting. Do you speak Chinese?

JOHN: [Chinese speaks]. That's probably my limit, in fact, I must say. I need to work on it

CT: You have a nice accent.

JOHN: [laughing] Thank you! China is my fifth country. I was born in the United States, I went to school in Spain for four years, I lived a bit in Belgium, I lived in Germany, and more recently, China has exceeded two and a half years. If I've ever been to the world, I'd say I'm a citizen of the world at this point. I have not lived in the United States for eight years now, so I'm still looking for an upcoming adventure, I suppose

CT: Interesting. I think that's where the blockchain is. A global community and that is great.

JOHN: This is really a global community!

CT: Thank you very much for being here with

JOHN: My pleasure!

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