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February 07, 2022 - To the uninitiated, non-fungible tokens or NFTs might be seen as useless curiosities at best, and toxic high-risk assets at worst. But to Julian Klymochko, founder and CEO of Accelerate Financial Technologies, they have the potential to become the next big…

January 26, 2022 - Accredited investors in Canada looking for exposure to digital collectibles available on the blockchain should soon be able to buy a “Web3” investment product. (more…)

January 13, 2021 - The previously obscure SPAC market hit headlines last year, with over 600 blank-check companies listing on public exchanges, up from 248 in 2020. (more…)

Understanding the role of a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) January 07, 2022 - Julian Klymochko, Private companies have historically gone public via an IPO to raise capital and fund their growth ambitions. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft used this technique to go public early in…

December 29, 2021 - Special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) list on stock markets to raise capital and acquire private companies. Relatively few have listed in Canada compared with the United States, where more than 700 have gone public since 2020. (more…)

October 22, 2021 - Julian Klymochko, founder and CEO of Accelerate Financial Technologies joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the wild action seen in a SPAC tied to former President Donald Trump's planned social media company. (more…)

August 31, 2021 - ETF billed as world first addresses top-of-mind ESG concern with cryptocurrency (more…)

August 27, 2021 - Accelerate Financial Technologies Inc. plans to launch a carbon-negative Bitcoin exchange-traded fund by planting trees to offset the unfavorable environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining. (more…)

August 27, 2021 -A Canadian bitcoin ETF aims to offset its negative climate impact by planting trees. (more…)

April 23, 2021- After a booming 2020 and first quarter of 2021, the SPAC market appears to be slowing. Julian Klymochko, CEO of Accelerate, joins BNN Bloomberg to weigh in on this. Klymochko runs the Accelerate Arbitrage Fund, which provides exposure to SPAC arbitrage. (more…)