A Foresight News item published on 11 November 2026, citing Cointelegraph, reported third-quarter 13F holdings in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs. The positions are quarter-end figures, not a later update. This restatement does not add filings, prices, or flows beyond that report.
Barclays’ filed 13F showed 3.94 million shares of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, at the end of the third quarter, 48% more than the 2.66 million shares held at the end of the second quarter. The reported value rose from $88.5 million to about $187 million.
Citigroup opened a position of about $119 million in Fidelity’s spot Bitcoin ETF, FBTC. Its IBIT holding rose about 50%, from roughly 347,000 shares to roughly 521,000 shares.
Filers already in the third-quarter 13F set
Bitwise data cited in the report covered 1,389 institutions that had submitted third-quarter 13F filings. In that group, bank holdings of spot Bitcoin ETFs rose from $107 million in the second quarter, 3.2% of the group total, to $258 million, 4.9%.
Investment advisers remained the largest holder group. Their holdings rose from $2.2 billion to $3.5 billion and accounted for 66.6% of the total. Combined spot Bitcoin ETF holdings of these institutions rose from $3.35 billion to $5.25 billion.
The report said JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and the hedge funds Millennium and Schonfeld had not yet disclosed. Institutions had to submit third-quarter holdings reports before the Monday following that 11 November 2026 report.
Share counts, dollar values, and the 30 September cutoff
PrimeXBT senior market analyst Jonatan Randin, cited in the report, said IBIT’s price rose about 41% in the third quarter, so a higher holding value does not necessarily mean new institutional buying. He also noted that 13F filings reflect positions on 30 September and do not show Bitcoin’s later decline or later spot-ETF outflows.
SoSoValue figures in the same report put U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF net inflows in the third quarter at about $6.34 billion. From the start of the fourth quarter through the Tuesday referred to in the 11 November 2026 report, net outflows were about $2.1 billion.
What the snapshot can and cannot support
The clearest addition evidence in the item is the reported share-count increase at Barclays and in Citigroup’s IBIT line, plus Citigroup’s new FBTC position. Dollar totals also embed the third-quarter price rise Randin described. Any reading of these filings as an ongoing institutional bid is limited to 30 September, to institutions that had already filed, and to the period before the fourth-quarter outflows SoSoValue recorded through that Tuesday. The report does not give a price forecast or the missing filings from JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Millennium, or Schonfeld.
