# Intercontinental Exchange

> Intercontinental Exchange, better known as ICE, builds and operates the networks beneath modern finance: exchanges and clearing houses, the New York Stock Exchange, fixed-income pricing and connectivity, benchmark administration, and software that follows a U.S. mortgage from application to servicing. Its advantage is less a single product than a repeatable method - take a fragmented, manual market, make its data legible, move the workflow online, and charge for transactions, connectivity, data, and mission-critical software.

- **Founded:** 2000
- **Headquarters:** Atlanta and New York, United States
- **Founders:** Jeffrey C. Sprecher (Founder, Chair and CEO)
- **Team size:** 12,844 employees as of December 31, 2025; described by ICE in 2026 as nearly 14,000 employees
- **Products:** Exchanges and clearing, New York Stock Exchange, Fixed Income & Data Services, ICE Global Network, ICE Mortgage Technology
- **Notable:** Completed 20 consecutive years of record revenue in 2025., Expanded from an energy trading startup into the owner of the New York Stock Exchange and a Fortune 500 company., Reported $9.931 billion in 2025 net revenue, with $5.056 billion recurring and $4.875 billion transaction-based.

## Products & services

- **Exchanges and clearing** — Electronic futures, options and cash-equity markets plus central counterparty clearing across energy, agricultural commodities, interest rates, equities, credit and other asset classes.
- **New York Stock Exchange** — Listings, cash-equity and options markets, market data and issuer services operated through NYSE Group.
- **Fixed Income & Data Services** — Evaluated pricing, reference data, indices, analytics, execution, regulatory tools and content delivery across desktop, feeds, files, cloud and APIs.
- **ICE Global Network** — Secure connectivity and low-latency distribution linking market participants to ICE and third-party venues and data.
- **ICE Mortgage Technology** — An end-to-end U.S. housing-finance ecosystem spanning Encompass loan origination, Simplifile settlement and e-recording, MERS registration, MSP servicing, property data and analytics.
- **ICE Aurora** — A governed AI layer for analytics and workflow automation across exchange, fixed-income and mortgage products, with human oversight for material decisions.
- **ICE Private Credit Intelligence** — A permissioned data platform that assigns anonymous identifiers to private-credit deals and converts documents into standardized structured data.

## Achievements

- Completed 20 consecutive years of record revenue in 2025.
- Expanded from an energy trading startup into the owner of the New York Stock Exchange and a Fortune 500 company.
- Reported $9.931 billion in 2025 net revenue, with $5.056 billion recurring and $4.875 billion transaction-based.
- ICE indices had a record $794 billion in ETF assets under management tracking them at year-end 2025.
- Provides pricing data on about 2.8 million fixed-income securities and reference data on more than 35 million instruments across 210-plus markets.
- Built a mortgage ecosystem whose Encompass, Simplifile and MERS components touch almost every U.S. mortgage.
- Reported record first-quarter 2026 net revenue of $3.0 billion and second-quarter net revenue of $2.7 billion.
- Operates six clearing houses and multiple regulated exchanges across major global financial centers.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — ICE reported second-quarter net revenue of $2.7 billion, up 5% year over year, with growth across all three operating segments.
- **2026-06** — ICE detailed its AI-native mortgage strategy, including governed voice and chat agents, exception-based processing and human authorization for sensitive decisions.
- **2026-04** — ICE reported record first-quarter net revenue of $3.0 billion, up 20% year over year.
- **2026-03** — ICE launched Private Credit Intelligence with Apollo as anchor partner to standardize private-deal data and create a foundation for future secondary trading.
- **2026-03** — ICE announced strategic investments involving Polymarket and OKX as it expanded its relationships around digital markets.
- **2026-02** — ICE reported 2025 net revenue of $9.9 billion, its twentieth consecutive annual revenue record.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ice.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icemarkets/
- Twitter/X: https://www.x.com/ICE_Markets
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ICE_Markets
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/icemarkets/

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Last updated: 2026-08-13