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Intesa Sanpaolo: Strategic Hiring
Italy's largest bank more than doubled crypto holdings from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, making first moves into Ethereum and XRP while exiting Solana. Signals major strategic pivot into digital assets.
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The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening the sector executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 107 (Hot) (down 1.8 month-on-month), EMEA is at easing (-6.4pts) on signal share.
Intesa Sanpaolo: 1 signal in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow.
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