Intercontinental Exchange Inc Stock Price, News & Analysis

STOXX Ltd. and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) have announced a strategic collaboration to launch a new suite of fixed income climate indices. The partnership combines STOXX's sustainability expertise with ICE's pricing, reference data, and index calculation capabilities. STOXX is already utilizing ICE's services for its eb.rexx Bond Indices, which track German government bonds and currently have $3.2 billion in ETF assets under management, including $2.91 billion in iShares ETFs. The collaboration comes amid significant growth in fixed income ETFs, which reached $2.6 trillion in global AUM by end of 2024 and are projected to hit $6 trillion by 2030. The new indices aim to meet increasing demand for sustainable investment products in the bond market.

ICE's June 2025 Mortgage Monitor reveals record-high home equity levels, with U.S. mortgage holders possessing $17.6 trillion in total equity, including $11.5 trillion in tappable equity. First-quarter second lien equity withdrawals increased 22% year-over-year to $25 billion, marking the highest Q1 volume in 17 years. HELOC rates have become more attractive, dropping below 7.5% in March, with monthly payments for a $50,000 HELOC decreasing from $412 to $311. The report highlights that 48 million mortgage holders have an average of $212K in tappable equity, with homes only 45% leveraged on average. Total equity withdrawals reached $45 billion in Q1 2025, while 25% of homeowners are considering home equity loans or HELOCs in the next year.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) has launched its first battery materials futures contracts, expanding its energy derivatives markets into critical minerals. The new offering includes four cash-settled contracts covering lithium hydroxide, lithium carbonate, cobalt, and spodumene futures, based on Fastmarkets' price assessments. This expansion comes amid record-breaking performance in ICE's energy markets, with Gasoil futures and options reaching 1.43M contracts in open interest (up 29% YoY), ICE Brent futures hitting 2.9M in open interest, and total futures/options contracts achieving a record 104.6M contracts (up 8% YoY). The move aims to provide risk management tools for customers dealing with geopolitical risks and evolving trade flows in critical minerals markets.

ICE's April 2025 First Look report reveals a slight uptick in U.S. mortgage delinquency and foreclosure metrics. The national delinquency rate increased by 1 basis point to 3.22%, up 4.1% from last year but still below pre-pandemic levels. Serious delinquencies rose 14% year-over-year, marking the sixth consecutive month of 10%+ annual increases. Foreclosure activity showed increases across starts (+13%), sales (+9%), and inventory (+4%). VA mortgage foreclosures reached their highest level since 2019, with 6,500 foreclosure sales marking a 15-month high. Prepayment activity increased to 0.71%, driven by stronger home sales and refinancing, up 19% month-over-month and 34.9% year-over-year. Louisiana and Mississippi lead with the highest non-current loan percentages at 7.60% and 7.37% respectively, while Washington state showed the lowest at 1.94%.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has announced that Lynn Martin, who serves as both NYSE President and ICE Fixed Income and Data Services Chair, will be presenting at the Piper Sandler Global Exchange and Trading Conference. The presentation is scheduled for June 5 at 10:30 a.m. ET. Interested parties can access the presentation live or watch the replay through a webcast available on ICE's investor relations website at http://ir.theice.com/.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) held its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 16, where several key corporate governance matters were addressed. All ten director nominees were successfully elected to one-year terms with majority votes. Stockholders approved an advisory resolution on executive compensation and amendments to the company's certificate of incorporation regarding voting limitations for regulatory compliance. Ernst & Young LLP was ratified as ICE's independent registered public accounting firm for 2025. Broadridge Financial Solutions served as the Inspector of Elections for vote tabulation and verification.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) announced that its Chair and CEO Jeffrey C. Sprecher will deliver a presentation at the Bernstein 41st Annual Strategic Decisions Conference on May 28 at 2:30 p.m. ET. The presentation will be accessible through a live webcast and replay on ICE's investor relations website at http://ir.theice.com/.

ICE, which operates as a leading global provider of technology and data, will make the presentation available to interested parties through their website's investor relations and media section.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) has launched EU Carbon Allowance (EUA) 2 futures on May 6, 2025, alongside its benchmark EUA futures and options. The first day of trading saw transactions totaling 5,000 EUA 2 allowances.

This new contract supports the European Union's Emissions Trading System 2 (ETS2), set to begin in 2027. ETS2 will expand carbon dioxide emissions coverage to include buildings and road transport sectors, effectively doubling the EU ETS scope to 80% of the EU economy and increasing covered entities to approximately 20,000.

ICE's environmental markets facilitate over $1 trillion worth of environmental contracts annually. Since inception, the platform has traded over 173 billion carbon allowances, 655 million renewable energy certificates, and over 6 billion tons of carbon credits.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has announced the launch of its ICE Global Climate Risk Solution, expanding its geospatial platform to assess climate-related risks for over 20,000 global corporates and sovereigns. The solution leverages data from 1.6 billion buildings worldwide and covers 3 million corporate asset locations, with plans to expand to 9 million.

The platform combines physical risk data across 8 key hazards (including wildfires, floods, and hurricanes) with emissions and climate targets data. The solution features ICE's Hazard Watch for monitoring emerging climate risks and provides scenario-aligned, forward-looking risk scores to help investors evaluate climate risks' financial implications for their portfolios.