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Intercontinental Exchange has partnered with index firm S&P Global Platts to develop a new version of its market data platform ICE Connect specifically for the global oil markets. President of ICE Data Services Lynn Martin said: "As adoption of our ICE Connect platform continues to grow, we're pleased to offer our customers powerful new tools in the global oil markets, including Platts' leading analytics, through an efficient delivery mechanism". [Extracted from the article]

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and Cboe Global Markets experienced a bumper trading month in January, bringing a period of declining volumes to an end at the major European and American exchanges. According to data released by ICE on February 6, its European market ICE Futures Europe saw trading volume in January rise 31% on January 2019 to 119.4 million lots. According to data released on February 5 by Cboe Global Markets, January 2020 derivatives trading volume on the Chicago-based equity futures and options exchange increased 24% on January last year, to 198 million contracts. [Extracted from the article]

Trading revenue at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) increased in 2019, despite fourth quarter trading earnings being down compared with the same period in 2018. The 2019 net revenue growth comes despite ICE's trading volume declining in 2019. [Extracted from the article]

Intercontinental Exchange (Ice) has announced that vice chairman Charles Vice is to retire. Vice spent 20 years at the Atlanta-based exchange, assisting with the development of the firm from a start-up to a major global exchange. In 2017 he was appointed vice chairman of the company with responsibility for the firm's global technology, information service and operations. [Extracted from the article]

Intercontinental Exchange has announced plans to launch a new data service that will enable investors to assess the environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in corporations. The offering will allow ICE data services customers to receive primary ESG data points, such as greenhouse gas emissions, board diversity and around 500 other ESG related metrics. [Extracted from the article]

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has partnered with fintech startup risQ to provide climate risk analytics to the municipal bond market. The aim of the analytics platform is to enable all purchasers and issuers of municipal bonds to produce quantitative measures of the key climate risks associated with the investment. Even Kodra, said: "We have been targeting a scientifically rigorous climate risk analytics platform to enable informed decisions from the day we founded the company". [Extracted from the article]

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has completed its first bitcoin options trade, making it the first US regulated exchange to complete a trade of this type. The Atlanta-based exchange announced on December 13 that the first block trade of Bakkt bitcoin (USD) monthly options was completed on ICE Futures US. [Extracted from the article]

Data released by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) reveals a widespread decrease in trading volumes across asset classes. Futures contracts on the market fell by 24% whilst options, which are a fraction of the size of futures, decreased by 10%. The decline in trading on oil options follows an announcement in November that ICE was launching the first futures contracts based on Abu Dhabi National Oil. [Extracted from the article]