ICE Reports 5% Increase in November Daily Futures Volume

ATLANTA, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IntercontinentalExchange Group (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today reported increased futures volume for November 2013. ICE's average daily volume (ADV) for futures and options was 3.37 million contracts, up 5% from the prior November. Year to date through November, ADV for oil and agriculture were up 9% and 6%, respectively, versus the prior year and total ADV was in line with the prior year at 3.40 million contracts.

Financial Update

• ICE will pay a cash dividend of $0.65 per share on December 31, 2013 to shareholders of record on December 16, 2013, with an ex-dividend date of December 12, 2013.
• ICE currently expects it will classify certain of NYXT's business lines to discontinued operations in the company's financial statements beginning in the first quarter of 2014.
• ICE will report fourth quarter 2013 earnings on February 11, 2014.

Credit Derivatives Transaction and Clearing

• Through November 29, ICE has cleared $47 trillion in gross notional value on a cumulative basis across 1.5 million trades with open interest of $1.5 trillion. Buy-side clearing totaled $3.6 trillion at ICE Clear Credit since the December 2009 launch. 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

November 2013 Review

• On November 13, ICE completed its acquisition of NYSE Euronext.
• ICE announced that it has agreed to acquire the Singapore Mercantile Exchange, broadening its exchange and clearing footprint to Asia markets and customers.
• ICE launched 63 new energy contracts in global crude old, gasoline, middle distillate, fuel oil, power, biodiesel, naphtha, natural gas liquid and environmental futures and options. 
• Total monthly and average daily volume records were established in RBOB Gasoline and Heating Oil futures.
• Open interest records were established in Emissions EUA futures, South China Coal and CSX Coal futures and Richard Bay, Rotterdam and Newcastle Coal options and WTI options.

Trading days in November 2013

• ICE Futures Europe & U.S: 20
• ICE Futures Canada: 20

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

About IntercontinentalExchange Group, Inc.

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) is the leading network of regulated exchanges and clearing houses for financial and commodity markets. ICE delivers transparent, reliable and accessible data, technology and risk management services to markets around the world through its portfolio of exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, ICE Futures, Liffe and Euronext.

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Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 - Statements in this press release regarding ICE's business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see ICE's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors in ICE's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, as filed with the SEC on February 6, 2013.

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