Barclays Reports $186.66 Million in Bitcoin Fund Positions at End of Third Quarter
Key Facts
Barclays’ filing for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, reported a value of $186,656,887 for three positions in the iShares Bitcoin Trust, totaling 3,942,900 shares. The bank filed the report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 6, and the disclosure reflects quarter-end holdings. The main line in the table was 3,842,862 shares, with a reported value of $181.9 million. The main line therefore does not equal the total of the three positions listed in the table. Alongside Barclays’ filing, Citigroup’s report showed positions in the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund and the iShares Bitcoin Trust at the end of the same period.
Ruth M Clark signed the report on November 4, which covers the quarter ended September 30, 2026. The table contains 12,011 entries and 10 other included managers, and its total value of information was estimated at $308,299,622,766, rounded to the nearest dollar. These figures cover a broader range than the positions in the two funds cited. The reported values and share count are tied to the quarter-end date, not the date the report was signed or filed.
In the Fidelity fund report, net assets totaled $15.327476 billion on September 30, 2026, compared with $17.636254 billion on December 31, 2025. The report said the fund’s shares represent undivided fractional beneficial ownership interests in the fund and are listed for trading on the Cboe BZX Exchange. The amount of bitcoin held by the fund rose to 183,167 bitcoin on September 30, from 174,383 on June 30. The report attributed the increase to net proceeds from share issuance, which were matched by net bitcoin purchases, while the currency’s price rose 41.62% during the quarter.
That decline was partly offset by a realized gain of $735.401 million from bitcoin distributions to redeem shares. Comparing December 31, 2025, with September 30, 2026, the report said bitcoin’s price fell 4.31%, from $87,463.03 to $83,697.25. Net asset value per share also rose to $72.80 on September 30, from $51.44 on June 30, according to the quarter-on-quarter comparison in the report.
13F reports provide a snapshot of positions at quarter-end, as SEC rules require institutional managers to file within 45 days of the end of each quarter. The agency set November 16, 2026, as the deadline for third-quarter reports, so further disclosures were still expected when the news was published on November 11. The figures alone do not reveal trading after September 30. In later market developments, Investing.com reported that markets priced in a probability of about 89% of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates by 25 basis points in December, following higher-than-expected October inflation data. Those expectations remain separate from the holdings recorded in third-quarter filings.