Intercontinental Exchange Inc Stock Price, News & Analysis

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.

Forge Global Holdings (NYSE: FRGE) reported its Q1 2025 financial results, achieving its highest revenue quarter as a public company. Total revenues less transaction-based expenses reached $25.1 million, a 37% increase quarter-over-quarter. Trading volume surged to $692.4 million, up 132% from the previous quarter. However, the company reported an operating loss of $16.5 million and a net loss of $16.2 million. Key business developments include a non-binding LOI to acquire Accuidity Capital Management, partnerships with ICE to distribute Forge Price™, and collaboration with Yahoo Finance to launch the industry's first private market hub. The company's cash position stood at $93.1 million as of March 31, 2025. Forge recently completed a 15-for-1 reverse stock split on April 14, 2025.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has announced the launch of Price Improvement Volume Clearing (PIVC), a patent-pending enhancement to its ICE Bonds' Risk Matching Auction (RMA) protocol for corporate bond trading. The RMA protocol, which conducts multiple dealer-to-dealer sweep auctions weekly, has gained significant traction with over 66 registered firms and 700+ users actively participating.

PIVC introduces a follow-on auction session that enables dealers to increase trading volume in previously traded bonds and improve pricing for untraded bonds from the initial RMA session. The platform reported record Q1 2025 performance, with corporate bond trading volume reaching $62 billion (up 27% YoY) and municipal bond volume hitting $48 billion (up 26% YoY).