{"id":46110,"date":"2025-09-06T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=46110"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:01:59","slug":"brazils-largest-private-asset-manager-itau-launches-crypto-focused-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=46110","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Largest Private Asset Manager Ita\u00fa Launches Crypto-Focused Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s largest private asset manager Ita\u00fa Asset Management has formed its first dedicated crypto division and named Jo\u00e3o Marco Braga da Cunha, a former executive at Hashdex, to run the new unit.<\/p>\n<p>The division, local news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/livecoins.com.br\/itau-cria-primeira-divisao-focada-em-criptoativos\/\">Livecoins reports<\/a>, will sit within Ita\u00fa\u2019s multidesk investment structure, which oversees more than 117 billion reais ($21.6 billion) across 15 trading desks. The crypto team joins groups focused on equities, credit, and systematic strategies, with the goal of expanding Ita\u00fa\u2019s lineup of digital asset products.<\/p>\n<p>Ita\u00fa has over time been moving into crypto markets. Since 2022, it has offered a bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2023\/11\/27\/spot-bitcoin-etfs-have-almost-100m-in-aum-in-brazil-led-by-hashdex-offering\">exchange-traded fund<\/a> (BITI11) and a retirement plan with BTC exposure. Together with its Ita\u00fa Bitcoin Index fund, these products hold about 850 million reais ($152 million) in assets.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Ita\u00fa began offering direct trading of cryptocurrencies through its mobile app, including BTC and ETH, with custody provided in-house. The bank has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/04\/03\/brazil-s-largest-bank-itau-unibanco-mulls-its-own-stablecoin\">mulled launching its own stablecoin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new unit is expected to roll out products that range from fixed-income-style instruments to higher-risk funds tied to derivatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s largest private asset manager Ita\u00fa Asset Management has formed its first dedicated crypto division and named Jo\u00e3o Marco Braga da Cunha, a former executive at Hashdex, to run the new unit. The division, local news outlet Livecoins reports, will sit within Ita\u00fa\u2019s multidesk investment structure, which oversees more than 117 billion reais ($21.6 billion) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-46110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}