On Tuesday, Borsa Italiana — Italy’s stock market — listed a “Bitcoin-thematic” exchange-traded fund (ETF) by Melanion Capital, getting Bitcoin (BTC) contact with Italian institutions and retirement plans.
Cyril Sabbagh, md of Melanion Capital, told Cointelegraph that “The Melanion BTC Equities World UCITS ETF is definitely an equity ETF around stocks within the crypto ecosystem.” He described the ETF could be “accessible to as many folks as you possibly can.”
“The Italian Stock Market (Borsa Italiana) hasn’t recognized any ‘spot ETFs’ but welcomes our thematic ETF!”
Following a effective launch of the Bitcoin-thematic ETF in October 2021 on Euronext Paris, a pan-European stock market, Melanion Capital targeted Italia because of its ETF. Sabbagh described:
“In Europe, place ETFs (exchange-traded funds) are ETNs (exchange-traded notes) or ETCs (exchange-traded certificates) and, as a result, carry counterparty risk and aren’t UCITS (the greatest regulatory standard for any fund in Europe).”
The Bitcoin ETF also enables savers to achieve contact with Bitcoin within their retirement plans because of the UCTIS specs:
“Today, investors are frustrated they cannot integrate a crypto allocation to their traditional investment envelopes. Indeed, investors can integrate our ETF to their securities accounts, existence insurance plans as well as their retirement funds plans (this really is already the situation in France).”
Nicolas Bertrand, advisor and ambassador from the Global Blockchain Business Council along with a former board person in Borsa Italiana, told Cointelegraph that “Italian investors and traders demonstrated early curiosity about buying and selling Bitcoin along with other digital assets.”
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Despite sluggish cost action and requires a sub-$20,000 Bitcoin cost, Bertrand highlighted the eye in digital assets:
“From my position of advisor to numerous crypto uncovered companies and my direct connection with investors, I’m able to make sure there’s a substantial degree of interest which numerous firms are about to embrace digital assets.”
Bertrand shared that investor appetite for Bitcoin in Italia continues to be robust, particularly just before 2021. “Italy is at the very best 10 globally when it comes to amount of activity on Bitcoin, and numerous buying and selling venues emerged offering immediate access to those markets.”
Over the road in the Borsa Italiana, the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, will quickly open a workplace, as the European Central Bank shared that cryptocurrency possession in European households is prospering.
