Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. reports developments across financial market technology, exchange operations, clearing, data services and U.S. mortgage technology. The company operates futures, equity and options exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, clearing houses, energy and environmental markets, fixed income data and execution capabilities, and ICE Mortgage Technology workflows for housing finance.
Recurring news covers quarterly operating results, trading volume and open interest statistics, dividends and share repurchases, mortgage performance and home-price reports, index and market-data products, and data collaborations such as sustainable bond classification. Company updates also reflect how ICE packages market data, analytics and workflow tools for capital markets, fixed income, housing finance and exchange-listed markets.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) launched Residential Whole Loan Evaluations, extending its evaluated pricing service to individual residential loans that are not securitized. The service covers qualified mortgages, non-qualified mortgages and specialty collateral.
Pricing combines client-provided loan data with ICE mortgage data and analytics, under evaluator oversight. Inputs include projected prepayments, defaults and delinquencies, home prices and origination data. Evaluations can be calculated daily or monthly and delivered through secure files via the ICE Data API.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) expanded its Wells Fargo (WFC) agreement; Wells Fargo will move its full home loan servicing portfolio onto MSP. The renewed agreement extends a relationship spanning more than 35 years. MSP is ICE’s mortgage loan servicing system, covering loans from onboarding through payoff or default resolution. Wells Fargo also uses ICE Business Intelligence for default servicing workflows and has begun electronically registering its mortgage loans on the MERS eRegistry for loan tracking and transfers.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) launched JKM LNG options, LNG freight futures and U.K. base electricity options for its energy markets.
The LNG freight futures cover the Spark30S Atlantic Sabine Pass to Gate route and the Spark25S Pacific NWS to Tianjin route. ICE also moved Japanese power futures, PJM basis power futures and U.K. NBP natural gas options to ICE Risk Model 2, a portfolio-based method for calculating trading margin.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) released its August 2026 mortgage snapshot, with the national delinquency rate at 3.53%.
The rate rose 14 basis points from July, largely reflecting calendar effects, and stood 10 basis points above a year earlier but 35 basis points below August 2019. Loans 30 and 60 days past due rose during the month but numbered 21,000 fewer than a year ago. Serious delinquencies increased by 11,000 to 574,000, ending five months of declines; the 1.04% rate was near the 2017–2019 August average of 1.03%.
Foreclosure starts fell 6% from July but rose 29% from a year ago. Pre-sale inventory stood at 0.54%, with 298,000 properties, up 2,000 on the month and 89,000 annually. Foreclosure sales fell 2% monthly and ran at 57% of their August 2019 pace. Monthly prepayment fell to 0.64%, a 17-month low, as mortgage rates trended higher.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) launched a new Private Credit Reference Data service for private credit instruments, extending its recently introduced ICE IDs identifiers.
The service uses ICE’s reference data infrastructure to extract and deliver structured private credit data, supporting security identification, research, trading, risk management, and post-trade workflows. ICE IDs are assigned at origination and persist across the asset lifecycle. ICE Private Credit Reference Data and ICE IDs sit within ICE Private Credit Intelligence, an initiative by ICE and Apollo. Apollo, as anchor originator, has contributed deal-level data on over 5,000 deals and ICE IDs, covering more than $1.3 trillion in notional data.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) released its September 2026 ICE Mortgage Monitor report highlighting record-high U.S. property insurance costs and slowing growth in premiums.
Property insurance now averages $209 per month for single-family mortgage holders, accounting for 9.6% of the typical mortgage payment and nearly 80% more than at the start of 2020. Annual insurance costs rose 8.7%, down from 11.4% at the start of 2026 and a 15.1% peak in late 2024, with Q2 premiums up just 1.8% quarter over quarter, the smallest gain since ICE began tracking. Coverage limits increased 5.5% and drove roughly two-thirds of the annual cost rise, while cost per $1,000 of coverage rose 3%. Homeowners who switched private carriers cut premiums by a record 6.6%, versus a 10.4% increase for non‑switchers, saving about $440 per year with 1.4% lower deductibles and 7.3% higher coverage limits.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) reported record open interest in its interest rate futures markets, driven by Euribor and €STR contracts, as of September 2, 2026.
Total interest rate futures open interest reached 14.5 million contracts, up 25% year-over-year. ICE Euribor futures hit a record 5.8 million contracts (+16% y/y), while €STR futures reached a record 3.3 million contracts (+109% y/y). SONIA futures and options open interest rose 68% y/y and Gilts futures and options increased 4% y/y.
Across ICE’s broader financial derivatives complex, open interest rose 36% y/y, and its financial futures achieved record open interest of 16.9 million contracts, up 21% y/y.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) reported August 2026 trading volume and related revenue statistics, highlighting broad year-over-year growth in activity and open interest across asset classes.
Total average daily volume (ADV) rose 14% y/y, while total open interest (OI) increased 19% y/y. Energy ADV grew 13% y/y and OI 6% y/y, with Oil ADV up 12% y/y, Brent ADV up 21% y/y, Gasoil ADV up 20% y/y, and Natural Gas ADV up 17% y/y, including TTF gas ADV up 29% y/y and Asia gas OI up 29% y/y and record OI of 275k lots on August 13.
Total Agriculture & Metals posted record ADV, up 92% y/y, with record Sugar ADV up 203% y/y and record sugar OI of 2.5M lots on August 31. Financials ADV increased 7% y/y and OI 38% y/y, including record futures OI of 16.8M lots, with Interest Rates OI up 43% y/y and NYSE Equity Options ADV up 36% y/y.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), through the New York Stock Exchange, and Korea Exchange have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on expanding access to global capital markets.
The collaboration focuses on settlement cycle modernization, extended trading hours, ETFs, and market data and index products. The exchanges may form a NYSE-KRX Joint Collaboration Council to support implementation of the memorandum’s goals. Both parties describe the agreement as a shared commitment to deepen cooperation between U.S. and Korean capital markets and to support their development and competitiveness.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) announced the opening of the NYSE Texas headquarters in Dallas, located on the historic Old Parkland campus. The new site offers a dedicated venue and event space for NYSE Texas-listed companies in one of the country's fastest-growing business regions.
To commemorate the opening, Governor Greg Abbott, state legislators, and members of the NYSE Texas listed community will ring the NYSE Texas Closing Bell, broadcast live from Dallas. NYSE Texas, launched in March 2025 as the first securities exchange incorporated in Texas, has grown to more than 120 issuers with a combined market capitalization above $2 trillion, while Texas hosts over $4.8 trillion in total NYSE-listed market value.