ICE Reports Record Futures Volume in 2013; December ADV up 16%

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IntercontinentalExchange Group (NYSE:ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today reported increases in daily futures volume for December 2013, the fourth quarter of 2013 and the full year of 2013. ICE's December 2013 and fourth quarter of 2013 average daily volume (ADV) increased 16% and 6% compared to December 2012 and the fourth quarter of 2012, respectively. Total contract volume in 2013 reached a record 852 million contracts, up 1% from 2012.

Financial Update

• For the fourth quarter of 2013, ICE will report one consolidated segment. Euronext will be reported as a separate segment beginning in 1Q14.
• ICE expects it will classify certain of NYXT's business lines to discontinued operations in the company's financial statements beginning in 1Q14.
• Beginning with the January volumes release, ICE volumes will include the legacy NYSE Euronext businesses and will be distributed on the third business day of the month.
• ICE will report fourth quarter and full year 2013 results on February 11.

ICE Futures Contracts & Markets ADV
Product Line (Futures & Options)	ADV Dec 2013	ADV Dec 2012	ADV % Change	ADV Full Year 2013	ADV Full Year 2012	ADV % Change
ICE Brent	502,972	458,839	10%	669,812	620,373	8%
ICE Gasoil	158,126	166,763	-5%	256,427	254,691	1%
ICE Other Oil (1)	218,047	174,037	25%	255,001	204,965	24%
ICE OIL	879,145	799,639	10%	1,181,240	1,080,029	9%
ICE Natural Gas (2)	1,380,942	1,030,241	34%	1,194,199	1,448,878	-18%
ICE Power (3)	512,846	496,306	3%	548,976	379,002	45%
ICE Emissions & Other (4)	37,009	49,127	-25%	41,140	41,876	-2%
TOTAL ENERGY	2,809,942	2,375,313	18%	2,965,555	2,949,786	1%
ICE Sugar	95,982	86,715	11%	138,477	128,238	8%
ICE Other Ags (5)	97,280	88,702	10%	124,534	119,355	4%
TOTAL AGRICULTURAL	193,262	175,417	10%	263,011	247,593	6%
ICE Equity Index (6)	126,371	136,616	-7%	117,260	133,564	-12%
ICE FX (7)	29,110	33,146	-12%	36,013	29,443	22%
TOTAL FINANCIALS	155,481	169,762	-8%	153,273	163,007	-6%
TOTAL FUTURES & OPTIONS	3,158,685	2,720,492	16%	3,381,839	3,360,386	1%
Note: Figures may not foot due to rounding.
(1) “ICE Other Oil” includes Global Oil Products, WTI, Heating Oil, RBOB Gasoline and Middle East Sour Crude. Excludes Daily Brent Bullet contracts.
(2) “ICE Natural Gas” includes North American, UK and European Natural Gas.
(3) “ICE Power” includes North American, UK and European Power.
(4) “ICE Emissions & Other” includes all emissions contracts, Freight, Coal and Iron Ore and Uranium.
(5) “ICE Other Ags” includes Cocoa, Coffee “C”, Cotton No. 2, Orange Juice, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Barley and Canola.
(6) “ICE Equity Index” includes the Russell 2000(®), Russell 1000(®), and the credit index futures contracts.
(7) “ICE FX” includes futures and options for the U.S. Dollar Index and foreign exchange.

ICE Futures Monthly and YTD Volume
Futures & Options Products	Dec-13	Dec-12	Percent Change	Full Year 2013	Full Year 2012	Percent Change
Energy	59,008,772	47,506,257	24%	747,319,866	743,345,947	1%
Agricultural	4,021,833	3,487,287	15%	66,233,149	62,353,085	6%
Financials	3,265,110	3,395,244	-4%	38,624,788	41,077,838	-6%
TOTAL CONTRACTS	66,295,715	54,388,788	22%	852,177,803	846,776,870	1%

ICE Futures Fourth Quarter 2013 ADV and Volume
Futures & Options Products	4Q13 ADV	4Q12 ADV	Percent Change	4Q13 Volume	4Q12 Volume	Percent Change
Energy	2,940,832	2,774,918	6%	188,213,227	177,594,762	6%
Agricultural	223,257	203,933	9%	14,227,330	13,012,880	9%
Financials	134,398	142,155	-5%	8,601,466	9,097,919	-5%
TOTAL CONTRACTS	3,298,487	3,121,006	6%	211,042,023	199,705,561	6%

Rolling Three-Month Average Rate per Contract (RPC)
Futures & Options Products	Three Months Ending December 2013	Three Months Ending November 2013	Three Months Ending October 2013
Energy	$0.96	$1.01	$1.02
Agricultural	$2.52	$2.54	$2.53
Financials	$0.97	$0.99	$0.98

ICE Futures & Options Open Interest
	December 31, 2013	December 31, 2012
Energy*	88,424,946	70,108,837
Agricultural	2,607,902	2,502,583
Financials	412,943	463,058
*Energy OI excluding power contracts at the end of December 2013 and December 2012 were 34.0 million and 36.1 million, respectively.

Credit Derivatives Transaction and Clearing

• Fourth quarter revenues from ICE’s credit default swap (CDS) trade execution, processing and clearing business totaled $33 million, compared to $36 million in the prior fourth quarter, and included $19 million in CDS clearing revenues.
• For 2013, total CDS revenues were $145 million compared to $144 million in 2012.
• Through December 31, ICE has cleared $47 trillion in gross notional value on a cumulative basis across 1.6 million trades with open interest of $1.5 trillion. Buy-side clearing of CDS totaled $3.9 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

December and Year End 2013 Review

• ICE announced achievements for the year across markets, products and clearing services including NYSE’s leadership in global listings for total IPOs, technology IPOs and total capital raised.
• NYSE Group equities market share was approximately 30% in 2013, representing 47% of all volume that traded on registered exchanges, and the options market share was approximately 27%.
• ICE Brent futures, options and related derivatives instruments were successfully transitioned to a new, month-ahead expiry calendar to better align with the underlying North Sea physical oil market.
• ICE announced plans to centralize its global interest rate offering in London with the intended move of Liffe US interest rate contracts to trade on ICE Futures Europe, to clear at ICE Clear Europe and be reported to ICE Trade Vault Europe.
• Monthly total volume and ADV records were established in Canola futures and Newcastle Coal options. A daily volume record was set in Dutch TTF Natural Gas futures.
• Open interest records were established in Emissions EUA futures, Low Sulphur Gasoil futures, Sugar No. 16 futures, South China Coal and CSX Coal futures and Richard Bay and Newcastle Coal options.
• Trading days in December 2013
  • ICE Futures Europe & U.S: 21
  • 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

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