Barclays Purchases $131M of Blackrock’s Bitcoin ETF
London UK-based Barclays Bank, one of the world’s largest financial institutions with more than $1.5 trillion in assets, purchased $131 million worth of Blackrock’s Ishares spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in 2024...
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