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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.
ICE reports the following first look at August 2024 month-end mortgage performance statistics:
The national delinquency rate fell 3 basis points to 3.34% in August, down 0.9% for the month but up 5.1% from last year. Serious delinquencies rose 14K (+3.3%) to a six-month high, but remain historically low. Foreclosure starts fell by 9% from the month prior and remain 32% below 2019 levels. The share of mortgages in foreclosure hit the second-lowest level on record outside of the COVID-19 moratorium.
Prepayment activity rose to 0.62% – a level not seen in two years – on easing rates, rising by 4.7% from July and 18.0% from last year. The top 5 states by non-current percentage are Mississippi (7.93%), Louisiana (7.87%), Alabama (5.61%), Indiana (5.30%), and West Virginia (5.14%).
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) announced that ICE Clear Credit processed a record of more than $1.1 trillion USD equivalent notional amount of credit default swap (CDS) instruments on September 20, marking the highest amount cleared in a single day by any CDS clearinghouse. This included a record $900 billion from client-related CDS transactions.
ICE Clear Credit, founded in 2009, has become the leading global clearing house for credit derivatives, offering clearing for over 650 Single Name and Index CDS instruments. It has cleared more than $350 trillion in two-sided notional amount, with current open interest exceeding $1.8 trillion. The company recently announced plans to launch a clearing service for U.S. Treasury securities and repurchasing agreements, which will operate as a separate entity from the CDS clearing service.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has announced enhancements to its Credit Bureau Management solution, further automating the credit dispute process for servicers. The improved system, integrated with the MSP® loan servicing system, now allows for automatic submission of completed dispute forms to third-party credit bureau reporting agencies, eliminating manual re-entry of data.
These enhancements aim to help servicers meet their 30-day reporting obligations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act more efficiently. The solution compiles borrower information, pre-fills dispute forms, and manages the investigation process, potentially reducing errors and saving critical time for servicers.
Tim Bowler, President of ICE Mortgage Technology, emphasized the importance of these improvements in providing value to servicers and supporting fair and accurate credit histories for individuals.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) has launched a new suite of climate risk municipal indices that track the performance of securities based on exposure to acute climate risks. The indices use the ICE Climate Risk Score, which provides a comprehensive measure of estimated property risk from physical climate hazards.
The new index family includes five indices focusing on high and low physical climate risk, as well as specific risks like wildfires, floods, and hurricanes. These indices aim to help investors capture exposure to climate-related trends in the municipal bond market.
ICE research indicates that physical climate risk is not yet being priced into municipal bonds, potentially obscuring true risk. These new indices are designed to provide investors with a consistent measure of the climate-yield relationship and a benchmark for managing portfolio risk.
Salt Financial has signed a memorandum of understanding with Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) to collaborate on strategic index development. The partnership aims to satisfy the growing demand for risk-controlled investment products for insurance companies, fund sponsors, and investment banks through bespoke systematic indices.
The collaboration will leverage Salt's patent-pending truVol® Risk Control Engine (RCE) and ICE's diverse range of cross-asset index solutions. ICE currently has approximately $2 trillion in assets under management benchmarked to its indices. The partnership seeks to combine Salt Financial's expertise in volatility management with ICE's robust index capabilities and the NYSE brand to explore new and enhanced index solutions.
This collaboration could potentially provide investors with a broader range of choices, incorporating the latest advancements in index design and truVol's cutting-edge volatility control mechanism powered by historical intraday data.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) and IPC Systems have launched ICE Voice, a cloud-based audio solution integrated with ICE Chat. This new platform offers seamless communication for traders and global market participants, combining voice connectivity with ICE Chat's extensive network of over 120,000 users. Key features include:
- Full audio recording with configurable retention
- Anywhere, anytime playback of archived calls
- Integrated chat and voice logs for compliance programs
- AI-powered Smart Text Recognition
- Message Blaster for multi-contact messaging
- Voice Blasts for simultaneous group communication
ICE Voice aims to enhance trading experiences by providing a single, integrated platform for chat and voice, tailored to the workflows of financial professionals.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) announced that PNC has expanded its use of ICE's data and analytics solutions as part of their renewal of the MSP® loan servicing system. ICE's proprietary mortgage data sets and advanced analytic models help companies adapt to changing market conditions and evaluate and mitigate portfolio risk. The expansion includes ICE's Automated Valuation Models (AVMs), AFT Prepayment and Credit Model, and McDash® loan-level performance database.
These solutions aim to reduce regulatory compliance risk, decrease costs and turn times, and identify growth opportunities. Tim Bowler, President of ICE Mortgage Technology, emphasized that ICE's goal is to make the path to homeownership or refinancing faster, simpler, and more transparent.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) announced that its €uro Short Term Rate (€STR) futures reached over 500,000 contracts in open interest on September 11, 2024. This milestone highlights ICE's growing presence in euro-related interest rate risk management, complementing its 16.2 million lots of open interest in Euribor futures and options.
ICE's overall interest rate complex has seen significant growth, with open interest up 14% year-over-year to over 25 million contracts. Average daily volume (ADV) across the interest rate portfolio increased by 55% year-over-year as of August 2024, including substantial gains in Euribor, SONIA, and Gilts ADV.
The exchange offers margin offsets up to 90% between €STR and Euribor, providing efficient risk management tools for customers. ICE's multi-currency interest rate derivatives offering includes benchmarks for various markets, with SONIA futures hitting a record 2.4 million contracts in open interest on September 11, 2024.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) announced record liquidity across its global natural gas futures markets. Key highlights include:
- Global natural gas futures reached record open interest (OI) of 22.4 million contracts, up 15% year-over-year (y/y).
- U.S. Financial Gas futures and options hit record OI of 11.7 million contracts, up 13% y/y.
- TTF futures reached record OI of 2.1 million, up 53% y/y, with liquidity now extending to 2033.
- Henry Hub markets saw OI up 26% y/y.
- TTF options OI at 2.2 million contracts, up 86% y/y.
ICE's global energy markets OI is up 23% y/y at 59.2 million contracts, reflecting the increasing interconnectedness of global natural gas markets.
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has made a final announcement regarding the cessation of U.S. dollar LIBOR®. The FCA confirmed it will not compel ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) to continue publishing the 1-, 3- and 6-Month 'synthetic' U.S. dollar LIBOR settings after September 30, 2024. This marks the end of all LIBOR settings, with no new publications after this date.
The FCA emphasizes that 'synthetic' LIBOR settings are not representative of the underlying market or economic reality they were intended to measure. Use of these settings by U.K. supervised entities is prohibited under the U.K. Benchmarks Regulation, with some exceptions for legacy contracts. Users are advised to seek legal and regulatory advice to prepare for the impact of this cessation on their financial contracts and arrangements.