Foresight News, citing Cointelegraph in a report published November 11, 2026, said Barclays’ 13F filing showed 3.94 million shares of BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF (IBIT) at the end of the third quarter. That was a 48% increase from 2.66 million shares at the end of the second quarter. The reported value of the holding rose from $88.5 million to about $187 million.
Citigroup established a new position of about $119 million in Fidelity’s bitcoin ETF (FBTC). Its IBIT holding increased 50%, from about 347,000 shares to about 521,000 shares.
Filings already submitted
Bitwise data on the 1,389 institutions that had filed third-quarter 13Fs put banks’ spot bitcoin ETF holdings at $258 million, a 4.9% share, up from $107 million and a 3.2% share in the second quarter. Investment advisers remained the largest group. Their holdings rose from $2.2 billion to $3.5 billion, or 66.6% of the reported total. Combined holdings among these filers increased from $3.35 billion to $5.25 billion.
When the November 11, 2026 report appeared, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and hedge funds including Millennium and Schonfeld had not yet disclosed positions. Institutions were required to submit third-quarter reports before the following Monday.
What the value change does and does not show
Jonatan Randin, senior market analyst at PrimeXBT, said IBIT’s price rose about 41% during the third quarter. A higher reported holding value does not necessarily mean an institution bought more shares. The 13F figures are positions as of September 30. They do not reflect the bitcoin decline after that date or later outflows from spot ETFs, as noted in the report.
SoSoValue data cited alongside those filings showed about $6.34 billion of net inflows into U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, through the Tuesday before the November 11 report, net outflows were about $2.1 billion.
Share-count changes and the quarter’s price rise are different measurements. So are the September 30 ownership snapshot and the flow totals that extend past quarter-end. The filings record who held the ETFs on one date. The flow data record net money moving into or out of the products over the windows stated above. The report does not treat either figure as a full account of price action after September 30.
Original article: Foresight News, November 11, 2026, citing Cointelegraph, Bitwise, PrimeXBT analyst Jonatan Randin, and SoSoValue.
