Intercontinental Exchange Reports August 2026 Statistics

ATLANTA & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), one of the world’s leading providers of financial market technology and data powering global capital markets, today reported August 2026 trading volume and related revenue statistics, which can be viewed on the company’s investor relations website at https://ir.theice.com/ir-resources/supplemental-information in the Monthly Statistics Tracking spreadsheet.

August highlights include:

• Total average daily volume (ADV) up 14% y/y; open interest (OI) up 19% y/y
• Total Energy ADV up 13% y/y; OI up 6% y/y
  • Total Oil ADV up 12% y/y
    • Brent ADV up 21% y/y
    • Gasoil ADV up 20% y/y
    • Other Crude & Refined products ADV up 5% y/y
  • Total Natural Gas ADV up 17% y/y; OI up 9% y/y
    • North American Gas ADV up 13% y/y; OI up 8% y/y
    • TTF gas ADV up 29% y/y; OI up 17% y/y
    • Asia gas ADV up 20% y/y; OI up 29% y/y, including record OI of 275k lots on August 13
• Record total Agriculture & Metals ADV up 92% y/y; OI up 52% y/y
  • Record Sugar ADV up 203% y/y; OI up 51% y/y, including record OI of 2.5M lots on August 31
  • Cocoa ADV up 85% y/y; OI up 77% y/y
  • Cotton ADV up 63% y/y; OI up 76% y/y
  • Coffee OI up 5% y/y
• Total Financials ADV up 7% y/y; OI up 38% y/y, including record futures OI of 16.8M lots on August 31
  • Total Interest Rates ADV up 8% y/y; OI up 43% y/y, including record futures OI of 14.4M lots on August 31
    • Euribor ADV up 3% y/y; OI up 27% y/y, including record futures OI of 5.7M on August 31
    • SONIA ADV up 5% y/y; OI up 68% y/y
    • Gilts ADV up 8% y/y; OI up 4% y/y
  • Total Equity Indices ADV up 7%
    • MSCI ADV up 22% y/y
• NYSE Equity Options ADV up 36% y/y

About Intercontinental Exchange

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds, and operates digital networks that connect people to opportunity. We provide financial technology and data services across major asset classes helping our customers access mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and efficiency. ICE’s futures, equity, and options exchanges -- including the New York Stock Exchange -- and clearing houses help people invest, raise capital and manage risk. We offer some of the world’s largest markets to trade and clear energy and environmental products. Our fixed income, data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms that help our customers streamline processes and capitalize on opportunities. At ICE Mortgage Technology, we are transforming U.S. housing finance, from initial consumer engagement through loan production, closing, registration and the long-term servicing relationship. Together, ICE transforms, streamlines, and automates industries to connect our customers to opportunity.

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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, 2025, as filed with the SEC on February 5, 2026.

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