Intercontinental Exchange
ICE's SuperDerivatives Buy Welcomed, Though Integration Details Still Unclear
Less than a calendar quarter after selling one data technology business──NYSE Technologies' Wombat platform──to SR Labs (IMD, June 18, 2014), Intercontinental Exchange acquired another in the form of derivatives pricing and risk management vendor…
ICE Plans Majority Stake in Dutch Clearer
The IntercontinentalExchange Group (ICE) has announced that it will acquire a majority stake in the Holland Clearing House (HCH), adding to its recent shopping cart of company buys.
Buy Them! Buy Them All!
ICE's acquisitive mood and T2S lead this week's coverage.
Opening Cross: Teenage Takeover!
I can still recall my first days at then-Risk Waters Group in 2000 as a greenhorn researcher working on Risk magazine and FX Week, trying to quickly learn new industries and lingo, while at the same time trying to hide my inexperience. One of my earliest…
ICE Bolsters Clearing with SuperDerivatives Buy
Intercontinental Exchange says it will buy the derivatives pricing and risk management software provider for $350 million.
ICE to Buy SuperDerivatives for $350 Million
Intercontinental Exchange has announced plans to acquire derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives for $350 million in cash to "accelerate the expansion of ICE's comprehensive multi-asset class clearing strategy."
ICE Purchases Automated Trading Patents
The IntercontinentalExchange Group (ICE) has announced the acquisition of several patents related to electronic trading strategies, in an implicit bid to protect clients from predatory patent buyers.
Update: Q2 Exchange Data Revenues Rise, Despite Mixed Overall Financials
Major exchanges worldwide posted significant increases in market data sales in their latest round of their financial results, though they also recorded a mixed bag of total revenues as a consequence of low volumes and low interest rates.
ICE Begins ISDA Benchmark Calculation
ICE Benchmark Administration, the benchmark rate administration subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange, began its role as administrator of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's ISDAFIX swaps rate benchmark on August 1, as agreed earlier…
ICE Taps Morningstar for NYSE Web Data
IntercontinentalExchange is rolling out financial data and web components from Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar to make market data available online via the New York Stock Exchange's redesigned website.
Quincy Adds ICE Futures, eSpeed Treasuries to QED Microwave Data
Low-latency market data provider Quincy Data has added equity and energy futures data from the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and US Treasury bond data from Nasdaq’s eSpeed electronic bond trading platform to its Quincy Extreme Data microwave service, to…
SR Labs Buys Wombat Platform from NYSE Tech
New York-based low-latency feed handler and market data platform vendor SR Labs has acquired the Wombat Financial Software platform and associated technologies for an undisclosed sum from NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of the New York…
NovaSparks Adds FPGA Handlers for ICE, Eurex Feeds
French FPGA feed handler and data appliance provider NovaSparks has rounded out its futures data offering with the addition of feed handlers for IntercontinentalExchange's iMpact feed and Eurex's Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI) feed.
ICE Confirms Euronext IPO Details
The IntercontinentalExchange Group (ICE) has released plans for the intial public offering (IPO) of Euronext, the European exchange arm of NYSE Euronext, which the Atlanta-headquartered venue operator acquired in November 2013
NYSE Chief Steps Down
Duncan Niederauer, CEO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has accelerated his plans to retire from the bourse, following its integration with the IntercontinentalExchange Group (ICE).
Hanweck Associates Adds European, Asian Markets to Analytics Feed, Historical Database
Options analytics provider Hanweck Associates is expanding the global coverage of its VoleraFeed real-time datafeed of implied volatilities and Greek values for options on equities, indexes and futures, as well as its hosted tick database of historical…
Under Attack: Is Real-Time Data Safe from Hackers?
With recent data breaches such as US retailer Target falling victim to point-of-sale customer data theft and AOL email passwords being compromised grabbing the headlines, it's easy to understand why consumers are paranoid about data privacy. With the…
ISDA Taps ICE Benchmark Admin to Run ISDAFIX Benchmark
Derivatives industry body the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has appointed ICE Benchmark Administration, the IntercontinentalExchange-owned independent benchmark operator that already acts as the new administrator for the LIBOR benchmark…
ICE Splits NYSE Liffe, Euronext Feeds
NYSE Euronext has introduced a new commercial model for real-time data from its Liffe derivatives market that will see London-listed derivatives unbundled from continental European derivatives, as a result of ongoing plans to spin off Euronext's European…
Kilburn's Corner: Abandonment Issues
This week, Inside Market Data's editor, Max Bowie, is taking a well-deserved vacation, and, quite frankly, it's left me with abandonment issues. While he's been gone, I have been responsible for all editorial decisions, fielded all the calls and decided…
ICE Starts Clearing for Markit iTraxx Financials Index
The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Group has announced it has begun clearing for Markit iTraxx Senior Financials Credit Default Swap (CDS) index instruments.
NYSE Liffe Taps SuperDerivatives Volatility Data for Settlement Pricing
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software provider SuperDerivatives has begun providing IntercontinentalExchange's London-based NYSE Liffe derivatives market with volatility data to enhance daily settlement price calculations for flexible…
Exchange Data Revenues Run Gambit of Gains and Losses
Major exchanges reported a mixed bag of fourth-quarter financial results, with some reporting spectacular gains as a result of acquisitions and new initiatives, and others reporting lower revenues from data sales as a result of fewer subscriber numbers.
Euronext to Launch Fund Service in France
Euronext, a subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange Group (ICE), will soon admit active open-ended funds such as exchange-traded funds and mutual funds to trade on its regulated market in Paris after France authorized their trading on regulated markets or…