News Italy: Italy’s Largest Bank Cuts BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Stake 94%: Rotation to Ethereum?
Intesa Sanpaolo cut its Bitcoin ETF stake 94% and tripled its staked Ethereum holdings. Are institutions ditching Bitcoin for Ethereum?
News Italy: Italy’s Largest Bank Dumps BTC ETF for Staked Ethereum ETF
In Bitcoin ETF news today, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank, filed its Q2 2026 Form 13F, the SEC’s mandatory quarterly disclosure of institutional long positions in US-listed securities, on August 4, and the numbers tell a sharp story. The bank slashed its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) position by roughly ...
News Italy: Italy’s Terrifying Currency Scheme is Insanely Bullish for Bitcoin
By CCN Markets: The Italian government is mulling the decision to issue a “parallel currency” in a move that could plunge the eurozone into crisis – and provide the best case yet for mass bitcoin adoption. In the same week, the Italian deputy prime minister proposed a tax grab on cash and valuables stored in safety deposit boxes. These crisis policies expose deep cracks in the fiat monetary system. The move prompted money historian Rebecca L. Spang to call for a new foundation of money. “The time has come for a new, more equitable, version of money.” While she doesn’t
News Italy: Italy minister open to reviewing tax hike on cryptocurrencies
Italy's economy minister said on Thursday he was ready to review proposals to raise a tax on cryptocurrency capital gains, after pressure from some lawmakers in his own party to drop the plan. "I am willing to consider different forms of taxation for people who keep investments in their portfolio," Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said. Under the 2025 budget, to be approved by parliament by end-December, the Treasury intends to hike taxation on capital gains from cryptocurrency such as bitcoin to 42% from 26%.
News Italy: Travel insurance for vacations to Italy
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News Italy: Innovation Marks The Wines Of Italy’s Northernmost Region, Alto Adige
Italy's northernmost wine region produces distinctive wines that share profiles of opening. Many wish to export to the USA and are monitoring the tariffs situation carefully. I spoke with Alexandra ...
News Italy: Italy's Scary Parallel Currency Threat
Italy is the third-biggest economy in the monetary union, and had the bloc’s largest public debt in absolute terms last year. The League and the Five Star Movement, which have run the country in coalition since last June, have excluded any reference to “Ital-exit” in their governing program. This explains why a parliamentary motion on how the state pays the arrears it owes to commercial businesses, which Italy’s lower chamber passed last week, has caused such an uproar.
News Italy: Warnings for Europe, US From Italy’s Trading Tax
Europe's much-vaunted trading tax hit an early hurdle on Friday, when the introduction of a small-scale version in Italy saw trading volumes plummet. What's more, analysts warn that Italy's new tax will drive investors elsewhere and will fail to raise any revenue.
News Italy: Italy’s Prime Minister Proposes Aid for Women in Financial Straits Who Reject Abortion
The bill aims to reduce abortions motivated by the financial hardships of pregnant mothers, based on Article 5 of Italy’s Law 194. Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks during a conference on ...
News Italy: Could Guardiola be Italy’s next head coach? Financial ‘exception’ on the table
Italian Football Federation President Giovanni Malago reportedly confirmed that the federation is willing to grant a financial expectation to meet Pep Guardiola's salary requirements.This summer,...
News Italy: Study says climate change could cut Italy's output 6%, make its debt load riskier
"We find that climate risk is also a sovereign risk." ...
News Italy: Italy’s Debt Sustainability Challenge is Increasing, Though ECB Support Mitigates Liquidity Risk
Italy’s long-run debt sustainability is a growing challenge despite low interest rates and progress toward creating an EU recovery fund. However, action by the ECB and EU is slowing the deterioration in Italian creditworthiness even as public debt rises.
News Italy: Climate change threatens to dent Italy's long-term economic growth and worsen debt risks, study says
By Valentina Consiglio ROME, July 8 (Reuters) - Climate change could significantly weaken Italy's long-term economic growth and make its already heavy public debt burden harder to sustain, with output potentially lowered by up to 6% by 2050, according to a study released on Wednesday. The findings come as Europe, including Italy, has been grappling in recent days with an intense heatwave that
News Italy: Pakistan Secures PKR 6.3 Billion Loan from Italy to Modernize Agriculture
Pakistan & Italy just signed a PKR 6.3B concessional loan agreement to modernize the agriculture sector and upgrade local TVET programs.
News Italy: Italy’s ‘illogical’ agricultural solar ban contains ‘contradictions’, lawyer says
The decree will pass into law after a 60-day consultation period. Image: Enel Green Power. The Italian government’s proposed decree banning solar PV developments on agricultural land contains ...
News Italy: Italy’s Forest Cover is Larger Than Agriculture Land for the First Time Since the Middle Ages
For locally endangered species like bears and wolves, more woods in mountain areas will go a long way toward supporting their populations.
News Italy: Italy financial solidity not worsened by shocks of recent months says Giorgetti
(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 2 - Italy's financial solidity has not been worsened by the shocks of recent months, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said Thursday. "My job is not to delve into investment decisions, but to highlight the results achieved, also for the benefit of those who invest in and about Italy," Giorgetti said via video link to the ANIA assembly. "The country's financial solidity has not been worsened even by the shocks of recent...
News Italy: Italian Export Resilience Amid Global Turmoil
Italian exports are still on the move. Despite Trump’s tariffs, the war in the Middle East, and the chill caused by Iranian threats to the voracious Gulf economies. In fact, paradoxically, while...
