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News about Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) centers on its role as a Fortune 500 operator of exchanges, data platforms, and mortgage technology. The company repeatedly describes itself as designing, building, and operating digital networks that connect people to opportunity, and its announcements reflect activity across futures, equity, and options exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, as well as clearing houses and data services.
Readers following ICE news can expect updates on trading volumes, open interest, and market statistics across its derivatives and cash markets, including energy, environmental products, interest rates, equity indexes, and natural gas benchmarks. The company also issues releases on milestones in its fixed income and data services business, such as records in fixed income electronic execution and credit default swap clearing, and developments in its index and data platforms.
News flow further covers mortgage technology and housing finance analytics, where ICE Mortgage Technology publishes delinquency, foreclosure, and prepayment trends. Additional announcements highlight climate and risk data offerings, including integrations of ICE Climate data into third-party fixed income platforms, and collaborations that bring ICE’s cross-asset data and analytics into wealth management and brokerage workflows.
Corporate and regulatory disclosures appear in the form of press releases tied to SEC filings, debt offerings, governance changes, and amendments to corporate documents related to its exchange and swap execution facility subsidiaries. For investors and market professionals, the ICE news page offers a centralized view of how the company’s exchanges, data services, and mortgage technology businesses are evolving across asset classes and regions.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) reported record open interest in its SONIA futures and options market, reaching 11.4 million contracts on October 23, 2025, a 68% year-over-year increase.
SONIA options OI exceeded 8 million (+77% y/y). Open interest across ICE interest-rate futures and options rose to 34.7 million (+40% y/y), while total ICE futures and options OI hit a record 109.5 million (+16% y/y) as of October 23, 2025. Average daily volume is up 21% year-to-date, with SONIA ADV +27% and Euribor ADV +14%.
ICE Mortgage Technology (NYSE: ICE) released its September 2025 First Look showing overall mortgage performance remains historically strong but with shifts among government-backed loans.
Key figures as of Sept. 30, 2025: total U.S. delinquency rate 3.42% (down 6 bps YoY, down 58 bps vs Sept 2019), monthly prepayment (SMM) 0.74% (+15% YoY), Q3 foreclosure starts 103,000 (+23% YoY, -18% vs Q3 2019) and Q3 foreclosure sales 21,000 (~half of 2019 levels). FHA loans drove most of the rise in foreclosure activity, accounting for 38% of active foreclosures and the bulk of the annual increase in starts.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) announced record open interest across its global futures and options markets, reaching 107.6 million contracts on October 20, 2025, a 16% year-over-year increase. Key records on that date include total futures OI 57.5M (+17% y/y), commodities futures OI 43.2M (+14% y/y), energy futures OI 41.1M (+14% y/y), oil futures OI 11.2M (+24% y/y), Brent futures OI 3.1M (+27% y/y), and ICE TTF futures OI 2.7M (+30% y/y).
The company highlighted deep liquidity in benchmarks and growing customer trust across energy and commodity markets.
AGNC Investment Corp (Nasdaq: AGNC) announced on October 15, 2025 the launch of three fixed‑income indices developed with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) that track current coupon Agency mortgage‑backed securities (MBS). The indices are: AGNC ICE UMBS 30‑Year Current Coupon Index (AGNCU30C), AGNC ICE UMBS 15‑Year Current Coupon Index (AGNCU15C), and AGNC ICE GNMA 30‑Year Current Coupon Index (AGNCG30C).
Each index covers the most liquid segments of Agency MBS: 15‑ and 30‑year UMBS guaranteed by Fannie Mae and/or Freddie Mac, and 30‑year GNMA guaranteed by Ginnie Mae. AGNC said the indices aim to provide market insights and performance data for actively traded Agency MBS. More information is available at www.agnc.com/indices.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) announced on October 9, 2025 that Loomis Sayles selected ICE Climate data and analytics to inform climate risk integration across its global fixed income and equity-related portfolios. The agreement covers ICE Climate’s multi-asset suite, including location-specific, asset-level metrics for physical risks (flood, wildfire, hurricane, extreme heat/cold), transition risks, Scope 1–3 emissions, sustainable bond data, and nature-related risk via a joint solution with NatureAlpha.
The tools will be used across municipal bonds, global corporates, securitized and sovereign debt to supplement Loomis Sayles’ fundamental analysis and support fiduciary-driven investment decisions.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) announced a strategic investment in Polymarket on October 7, 2025. ICE will invest up to $2 billion in Polymarket at an implied pre-investment valuation of about $8 billion. As part of the agreement, ICE will become a global distributor of Polymarket’s event-driven sentiment data to institutional investors and will partner with Polymarket on future tokenization initiatives. The investment will be paid in cash and is not expected to have a material impact on ICE’s 2025 financial results or capital return plans. ICE will discuss the investment on its Q3 earnings call on October 30, 2025.
ICE Mortgage Technology (NYSE: ICE) released its October 2025 Mortgage Monitor reporting that homebuying affordability is at a 2.5-year high after mortgage rates eased. The PR states 30-year rates averaged 6.26% in mid-September, lowering the monthly principal & interest payment on an average-priced home to $2,148, or 30% of median U.S. household income. The report notes annual home price growth +1.2% in September, listings running 17–19% below 2017–2019 norms, and 80% of markets seeing price increases in September. ICE also reports stronger borrower profiles: purchase lock credit scores above 736 and purchase DTI at 38.5%.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) reported September 2025 monthly and Q3 trading statistics showing broad gains in open interest and average daily volume across futures, energy, rates, and equities. Key September metrics: Total open interest +15% y/y with record futures of 56.9M lots on Sept 25; Energy OI +8% y/y (record futures 41.0M); Interest Rates OI +42% y/y (record futures 12.2M on Sept 12). NYSE cash equities ADV rose 49% y/y. Monthly and Q3 spreadsheets are available on ICE investor relations.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) announced the transition of ICE AMERIBOR® to ICE Data Indices, LLC following its acquisition of American Financial Exchange (AFX). AMERIBOR serves as a credit-sensitive benchmark tracking borrowing costs for small, medium, and regional U.S. banks.
The benchmark, utilized by over 1,000 American banks and financial institutions, calculates volume-weighted interest rates of overnight unsecured loans. ICE Data Indices will now oversee AMERIBOR's governance, production, and publication, complementing ICE's existing services through its mortgage technology network. The company's indices currently underpin over $2 trillion in assets under management across active and passive funds.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) has achieved multiple record-breaking milestones in its futures markets. The company reported total futures open interest of 56.8 million on September 25, 2025, alongside record commodity futures OI of 43 million and energy futures OI of 41 million.
Notable achievements include oil futures markets reaching 11 million OI (up 20% y/y), ICE Brent futures hitting 3 million OI (up 30% y/y), and natural gas futures reaching 24.9 million OI (up 13% y/y). The company's European natural gas franchise, particularly TTF, achieved record OI of 2.6 million contracts, marking a 23% y/y increase.
ICE's energy futures and options complex has shown strong performance with average daily volume up 16% year-to-date.