ICE Reports May Daily Futures Volume; $915 Billion in CDS Cleared by Buyside, $41 Trillion in Total CDS Cleared to Date

ATLANTA, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global markets and clearing houses, today reported futures volume for May 2013. ICE's average daily volume (ADV) for futures and options was 3,317,512 contracts, a decrease of 5% from the prior May. Total volume in May 2013 was 73 million contracts.

May 2013 Review

• ICE stockholders approved the agreement to acquire NYSE Euronext on June 3, with approximately 99.7% of the shares present at the special meeting voted for the approval of the combination, representing 85.1% of ICE's outstanding common shares.  
• Following successful testing with clearing members, NYSE Liffe and ICE Clear Europe announced plans for ICE Clear Europe to begin clearing the London-based derivatives market of NYSE Liffe on Monday, July 1, 2013, subject to regulatory approvals.
• ICE held its 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 17. All 11 director nominees received a majority of votes cast and all of the ICE proposals were approved. 
• ICE Clear Europe was named 2013 Clearing House of the Year by Energy Risk magazine. 
• A daily volume record was established in coal options.  
• Monthly volume records were established in heating oil and RBOB gasoline futures. 
• Open interest records were established in cocoa futures, gasoil options, Brent Crude futures, WTI options and several coal contracts.

• Through May 31, ICE's CDS clearing houses have cleared $41 trillion in gross notional value on a cumulative basis across 1.3 million trades with open interest of $1.5 trillion. ICE Clear Credit has cleared $24 trillion in CDS resulting in open interest of $823 billion. ICE Clear Europe has cleared €13 trillion ($17 trillion) in CDS resulting in €525 billion ($685 billion) of open interest. Buy-side clearing of CDS totaled $363 billion in May and $915 billion 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 May 2013  
  • ICE Futures Europe & U.S: 22 
  • ICE Futures Canada: 22

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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