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Intesa Sanpaolo Q3 2026 Earnings - Net Income: €2.65B (est €2.49B) - Net Fee & Commission Income: €2.59B - Operating Income: €6.92B (est €7.01B) - Net Interest Income: €3.89B (est €3.87B) - Sees FY Net Well Above €10B, Saw Above €10B

Intesa Sanpaolo said its sweetened offer for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena has won the backing of the bank’s biggest shareholder, Delfin Sarl, bringing it a step closer to victory in the Italian takeover battle.

Intesa Sanpaolo's swoop on Monte dei Paschi di Siena bears the hallmarks of Chief Executive Carlo Messina's approach: meticulously prepared with loyal allies, and with buy-in from the government in Rome

Intesa Sanpaolo's swoop on Monte dei Paschi di Siena bears the hallmarks of Chief Executive Carlo Messina's approach: meticulously prepared with loyal allies, and with buy-in from the government in Rome. More here:

Italy's biggest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, more than doubled its crypto ETF holdings to $235 million in the first quarter of 2026. They added exposure to XRP and ETH, while also boosting their positions in BlackRock's IBIT and ARK 21Shares' Bitcoin ETF. One of Europe's major traditional banks is going harder into crypto, not just Bitcoin.

🇮🇹 ITALY’S BIGGEST BANK DOUBLED ITS CRYPTO EXPOSURE TO $235M Intesa Sanpaolo, managing over €1 TRILLION in client assets, has reportedly increased its crypto exposure from roughly $100M from Q4 2025 to around $235M in Q1 2026. The bank added more Bitcoin exposure and bought Ethereum exposure for the first time. The biggest new move is XRP exposure, worth around $26M at current prices. This makes it Europe's largest publicly disclosed bank crypto allocator.

🔜 🧠 “We are about to enter the era of interventional psychiatry, transforming the field of psychiatry.” — Tom Insel, former NIMH Director, at a recent psychedelic science conference. We have invested in many of these new modalities: transcranial focused ultrasound (Sanmai), minimally invasive deep brain stimulation and vagus nerve stimulation (Neurobionics), brain-computer-interfaces (Neuralink), auditory dream engineering (Dust), psychedelic-assisted therapy (atai/Lilly), and real-world-data collection for all (Osmind). Insel also co-authored a Nature paper with Osmind defining the field: + summary: Interventional psychiatry companies: •  tFUS: • Endovascular DBS: •  BCI: •  Dream engineering: •  Psychedelics: P.S. Underfunded: “From 2002-2013, the NIMH did not receive any funding applications for psychedelics. It was all funded and legitimized by philanthropy.” P.S.S. Needed: “The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that without significant changes, mental illness will cost the world economy $16t by 2030, making it the largest disease burden globally." — UBS: We need significant changes.

Paschi CEO Luigi Lovaglio is facing almost certain defeat and perhaps even a crushing one at an upcoming investor meeting, paving the way for rival Intesa Sanpaolo to take over the bank