ICE Reports Increase in August Daily Futures Volume

ATLANTA, Sept. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global markets and clearing houses, today reported futures volume for August 2013. ICE's average daily volume (ADV) for futures and options was 2,971,139 contracts, an increase of 2% from the prior August. Total volume in August 2013 was 65 million contracts.

August2013 Review

• ICE announced that it expects to launch ICE Swap Trade, ICE's swap execution facility, in the third quarter with support from leading credit market participants.
• ICE and Cetip announced that the ICE Link post-trade solution was extended to the Brazilian bond market on Cetip's trading platform.
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the rule change for ICE's acquisition of NYSE Euronext.
• Open interest records were established in ICE WTI, emissions and South China Coal futures, as well as Rotterdam Coal options and a total monthly volume record was set in Rotterdam Coal options. New daily volume and open interest records were established in the California carbon market. 

• Through August 30, ICE's CDS clearing houses have cleared $44 trillion in gross notional value on a cumulative basis across 1.4 million trades with open interest of $1.4 trillion. ICE Clear Credit has cleared $26 trillion in CDS resulting in open interest of $803 billion. ICE Clear Europe has cleared €13 trillion ($17 trillion) in CDS resulting in €484 billion ($641 billion) of open interest. Buy-side clearing of CDS totaled $2.1 trillion since the launch of client clearing at ICE Clear Credit in December of 2009. ICE lists approximately 400 CDS instruments for clearing. A complete summary of CDS clearing can be found at: https://www.theice.com/clear_credit.jhtml
• Trading days in August 2013
  • ICE Futures Europe & U.S: 22
  • ICE Futures Canada: 21

Note: As of October 15, 2012, ICE transitioned all of the open interest in OTC cleared energy swaps contracts to futures contracts. All futures volumes in the tables above have been adjusted to treat, on a pro forma basis, the OTC cleared energy swaps contracts as futures contracts for all periods prior to October 2012.

RPC is calculated by dividing transaction revenues by contract volume, and may vary based on pricing, customer and product mix.

Historical futures volume, rate per contract and open interest data can be found at: http://ir.theice.com/supplemental.cfm

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