The Bank of New York Mellon (BK) is holding more than $13 million worth of shares in Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
According to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bank of New York Mellon currently holds $13,280,431 worth of shares in Bitcoin ETFs.
The bank’s holdings include 115,108 shares of WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund (BTCW) worth about $11.87 million and 25,309 shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) worth about $1.4 million.
Other US banks are also holding BTC ETF shares.
Banking giant JPMorgan Chase holds nearly $1 million worth of BTC ETF shares.
Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs currently holds $1.63 billion worth of Bitcoin ETF shares and $196.3 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) ETF shares.
BTC and ETH-based ETFs – which allow investors to expose themselves to the top two digital assets by market cap without having to actually physically purchase them – were approved by the SEC in 2024.
In December, Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon said that regulations need to change before the bank considers holding and trading digital assets outright.
Said Solomon at the time,
“At the moment, as a regulated banking institution, we’re not allowed to own a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin as a principal. We give our clients advice around a variety of these technologies and these issues and will continue to do that, but for the moment our ability to act in these markets is extremely limited from a regulatory perspective.”
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