Yesterday, Barclays Bank, with File with the Supreme Education CouncilShe revealed that she has investments in Bitcoin’s investment funds for $ 131 million.
According to the documents submitted to the US Agency, the bank was held in the United Kingdom 2,473,064 IBIT shares, shares Bitcoin ETF, as of December 31.
Barclays and Bitcoin in circulating investment boxes
Although Barclays has already taken initiatives related to the encryption sector in the past, as much as it was known, he did not invest in Criptovalute.
Instead, at the end of 2024, and perhaps driven by the rise in the value of BTC caused by Donald Trump’s electoral victory, she decided to expose himself.
He did not do it by buying BTC directly, but by buying an organized origin like IPIT in the regulating market. In fact, he was still taking a position in Bitcoin, although he chose not to hold BTC directly.
Other banking institutions
Before Barclays, other banking institutions have already chosen to take a site on Bitcoin.
This is a real trend related to the institutional adoption of products related to the cryptocurrency, although it is still a trend in its early stages, and at the present time with folders completely low, as it includes large financial institutions.
In addition to Barclays, for example, among other large banking institutions, the Bitcoin situations opened by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are well known.
It is strange that they entered properly when the bitcoin price was heading towards the highest new levels ever, not for example in the previous months when the price was much lower than $ 70,000.
However, the truth remains that the main investors are still deciding to seize the opportunity to benefit from the increase in bitcoin, even if they choose not to own BTC directly.
Goldman Sachs has a 121 % increase in its investment in the Bitcoin investment funds, up to a total of $ 1.57 billion.
JPMorgan also recently indicated an increase in its exposure to BTC, although its position does not reach a million.
So the exception is the Goldman Sachs, which states that it contains open sites in the various investment funds traded in Bitcoin, as it increases by up to 121 % compared to the third quarter of 2024. However, in this case, the largest part of IBIT shares consists .
ETFS and Bitcoin
It can also be clearly understood, it was specifically the circulating investment funds that allowed these banking institutions to take a position on bitcoin.
On the other hand, in January 2025 alone, the investment funds traded in Bitcoin recorded a total flow of $ 5 billion. According to the expectations of Farside Investors, the total flows in 2025 may exceed 50 billion.
The main novel of this market is the exact IBIT by Blackrock, reaching $ 3.2 billion of net flow in January alone. In second place is FBTC by FIDELITY with 1.3 billion.
Institutional investors and bitcoin
To say the truth, the founding investors have been interested in Bitcoin for years until now.
However, until January 2024, they struggled to find legal ways to buy and keep BTC. With immediate traded investment funds, they found the final solution.
For this reason, the interest of institutional investors in Bitcoin grows continuously, with a significant increase in investments and adoption in recent years.
In fact, at the present time, the same asset managers as Blackrock are the ones who provide their customers illegally investing in BTC thanks to the circulating investment funds.
The fact is that Bitcoin tends to be unrelated, or relatively linked, with the direction of traditional markets, and thus provides an opportunity to diversify the portfolio. Moreover, it can allow significant returns with limited investments, at least in theory.
The main problem of institutional investors is specifically the organization, more than volatility, especially with regard to the uncertainty in the United States of America. This indicates that on the one hand, there are already many banking institutions that have started to pay attention to BTC, but there is still a lot that has not decided to expose themselves.
