{"id":7734,"date":"2025-01-15T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7734"},"modified":"2025-01-15T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:32:33","slug":"italys-largest-bank-leaps-into-bitcoin-trading-with-1-million-test-investment-but-ceo-says-he-doesnt-invest-in-btc-personally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7734","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Largest Bank Leaps Into Bitcoin Trading With $1 Million &#8216;Test&#8217; Investment But CEO Says He Doesn&#8217;t Invest In BTC Personally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Italy\u2019s largest bank, <strong>Intesa Sanpaolo<\/strong>, dipped its toes in the cryptocurrency market, conducting its first <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) purchase worth $1 million, according to a report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Intesa Sanpaolo purchased 11 Bitcoins\u00a0in what CEO <strong>Carlo Messina<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/italys-intesa-buys-1-mln-euros-bitcoin-first-proprietary-trade-2025-01-14\/#:~:text=An%20internal%20memo%20seen%20by,through%202028%20for%20company%20investments.\">described <\/a>as \u201ca test,\u201d Reuters reported, citing an internal memo.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at an event, Messina said that the lender had \u201cvery limited\u201d room to invest in cryptocurrencies and that the latest trial was conducted to prepare for potential requests for such investments by \u201csophisticated\u201d clients.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title='Banche, Messina (Intesa): \"Investimento in Bitcoin non stupisca \u00e8 test' width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z2clF1jYGDw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/government\/regulations\/25\/01\/42994641\/italys-largest-bank-leaps-into-bitcoin-trading-with-1-million-test-investment-but-ceo-says\" alt=\"Italy's\" largest bank leaps into bitcoin trading with million investment but ceo says he doesn invest in btc personally>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s largest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, dipped its toes in the cryptocurrency market, conducting its first Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) purchase worth $1 million, according to a report on Tuesday. What Happened: Intesa Sanpaolo purchased 11 Bitcoins\u00a0in what CEO Carlo Messina\u00a0described as \u201ca test,\u201d Reuters reported, citing an internal memo. Speaking to reporters at an event, Messina [&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-7734","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\/7734","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=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}