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Intercontinental Exchange

About

(NYSE: ICE)

We launched in the year 2000 with an electronic trading platform that brought more transparency and accessibility to the OTC energy markets, and soon after added global futures markets, cleared OTC products, data services and clearing houses. All of this growth was driven by our customer base’s increasing needs for efficiency, automation and risk management. With a culture of innovation and growth, we continue to build out our network to serve the dynamic needs of market participants around the world.

Today, the result is an ecosystem of markets, clearing houses, data and listings services, and technology that combine to provide transparent access to global capital and derivatives markets.

At our Core

We’re engineers, strategists and problem-solvers who continually create and improve technology that solves market structure challenges on behalf of our customers. We got our start bringing transparency and risk management to the global derivatives markets and then, through the acquisition of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), started innovating solutions to reduce complexity in the U.S. equity markets while bringing unparalleled services to our global issuers.

By putting the needs of our customers and global market participants first, we are a high-growth company focused on delivering:

  • Liquid, global derivative markets spanning all major asset classes to enable risk management across a wide variety of industries.
  • Clearing services that collateralize trading / position risk to help safeguard global markets and increase transparency.
  • The premiere global listings venue through which companies generate capital, create jobs and fund innovation.
  • Comprehensive data services that support informed decision-making by traders, risk managers, brokers, regulators and shareholders.
  • Technology that connects companies around the world to global markets.

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A STORY OF GROWTH AND INNOVATION

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2015

ICE licenses swap future methodology from Eris.

NYSE invests in bitcoin wallet Coinbase.

ICE acquires Interactive Data Corp., a leading provider of data, valuation and connectivity services

ICE adds Trayport to provide new services to OTC markets

2014

ICE acquires Singapore Mercantile Exchange, expanding network of futures exchanges to Asia.

ICE adds leading risk management service SuperDerivatives.

ICE acquires majority stake in Holland Clearing House, now ICE Clear Netherlands.

2013

ICE acquires majority stake in APX Endex and launches ICE Endex, the leading continental European energy exchange.

IntercontinentalExchange acquires NYSE Euronext to create the premier financial markets operator; adds interest rates to asset class portfolio.

2010

ICE acquires Climate Exchange, becomes global leader in carbon markets.

2009

ICE launches two CDS clearing houses, quickly becoming the global leader in CDS clearing.

2008

ICE launches ICE Clear Europe, UK's first new clearing house in a century; acquires Creditex and YellowJacket.

NYSE Euronext acquires the American Stock Exchange (Amex).

2007

ICE acquires New York Board of Trade and Winnipeg Commodity Exchange

NYSE Group merges with Euronext, creating NYSE Euronext, the first trans-Atlantic stock exchange group.

2006

NYSE and Archipelago merge, creating NYSE Arca and forming the publicly owned, for-profit NYSE Group.

2005

ICE completes its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

2002

ICE introduces the industry's first cleared OTC energy contracts.

LIFFE is acquired by Euronext.

2001

ICE expands into energy futures by acquiring the International Petroleum Exchange.

2000

Intercontinental Exchange is formed to develop a transparent marketplace for OTC energy markets.

Euronext is formed from the merger of the Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Portugal stock exchanges to support growth of the European Union financial markets.

1812

New York brokers establish the New York Stock & Exchange Board (NYS&EB;), renting rooms at 40 Wall Street.

1792

Twenty-four brokers sign the Buttonwood Agreement outside of 68 Wall Street in New York to begin trading securities.


Our Business

Markets

Our regulated, liquid and transparent markets span 9 asset classes and comprise 11 exchanges around the globe

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Clearing & Risk Management

Supporting financial integrity and developing a safer risk landscape across worldwide markets are our top priorities.

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Listings

The New York Stock Exchange is one of the world’s leading equities markets and, combined with the NYSE Group family of exchanges, trades more U.S. equity volume than any other exchange group.

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Technology

A collaborative ecosystem of tools that supports seamless, straight-through processing from price discovery and trade to clearing and settlement.

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Data

We’ve built a comprehensive set of data solutions that serve quote distributors, traders, risk managers and brokers by providing actionable information in easy-to-use formats.

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Customer Service

Our business is built around the recognition that the needs of our customers should come first.

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