Advocacy

Regulatory engagement

ICE leverages its expertise to contribute to policy and regulatory discussions:

Exchanges and clearing - ICE operates regulated marketplaces for the listing, trading and clearing of a broad array of derivatives contracts and financial instruments, such as commodities, interest rates, foreign exchange and equities as well as corporate and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. Our regulated global futures, options and swaps markets and derivatives clearing houses promote price transparency and offer participants the opportunity to hedge and trade a variety of commodities and financial derivatives in regulated markets. ICE operates multiple trading venues, including regulated exchanges and clearing houses, which are strategically positioned in major market centers around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Fixed income and data services - ICE provides market infrastructure, data services, and technology solutions to a broad range of customers including financial institutions, corporations and government entities. Among the offerings are fixed income pricing and reference data and analytics designed to support financial institutions’ and investment funds’ pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. ICE produces daily evaluations for approximately 3 million fixed income securities spanning approximately 150 countries and 80 currencies.
Mortgage technology - ICE provides software, data and electronic data processing to financial institutions and other stakeholders throughout the U.S. residential mortgage industry. In addition, ICE provides loan origination and servicing technology to mortgage lenders and servicers and processes consumer financial information on behalf of our customers. As a result, ICE is subject to a variety of U.S. state and federal regulations governing the protection of consumer financial information, including federal consumer financial laws and is designated as an operator of "critical infrastructure" by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Treasury.

Our input is frequently delivered through publicly filed comment letters with key regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Financial Conduct Authority among others. We are periodically invited to testify before Congressional committees and to serve on advisory panels convened by regulatory authorities, offering perspectives and expertise from market participants and operators.

Corporate political donations

Our policies prohibit the use of corporate funds to make contributions to any candidates, political committees or other entities organized primarily for political activities under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code or under 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code, or to any political party that would use the money to support any candidates. Our policies also prohibit direct independent expenditures as defined by the Federal Election Commission.

Board oversight

Our Board of Directors has oversight of the Company’s policies related to political and campaign contributions and other political expenditures with explicit authority in the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee charter.

Employee political action committee

ICE has a bipartisan Political Action Committee, or PAC, in the U.S., which is supported entirely by voluntary employee and director contributions. A statement of organization for ICE PAC was filed with the Federal Election Commission in January 2008 and all expenditures of the PAC are publicly available at www.FEC.gov.

Direct lobbying

We employ in-house and contract lobbyists that engage at the federal and state level on rulemakings and legislation that impact our customers and the businesses we operate. These engagements are typically in relation to technical matters and in recent years include topics related to housing policy, trading and clearing of digital assets and policies that impact public companies. Lobby activities and expenditures are reported on the relevant federal and state websites, in compliance with disclosure requirements.

Trade associations

We actively collaborate with and maintain memberships in key industry organizations to broaden our understanding of diverse customer and stakeholder perspectives. This includes the following organizations, which we pay annual fees of $10,000 or more to, none of which exceed $200,000:

Annual membership fees of $100,000-$200,000

City UK
Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE)
Financial Information Services Division (FISD), a division of SIIA (Software and Information Industry)
Futures Industry Association (FIA)
Index Industry Association (IIA)
World Federation of Exchanges (WFE)

Annual membership fees of $50,000-$99,999

Commodity Markets Council (CMC)
Global Association of Central Counterparties (CCP Global)
International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)

Annual membership fees of $10,000-$49,999

Bond Dealers of America (BDA)
Commodity Markets Council - Europe (CMC)
Cotton Council International (CCI)
European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH)
International Emissions Trade Association (IETA)
London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)
National Technology Security Coalition (NTSC)
Structured Finance Association (SFA)

* Per the ICE-PAC Operating & Political Contribution Guidelines, the above list includes all U.S. trade organizations to which we paid membership dues, special assessments or other payments in excess of $50,000, and to the extent available, the portion of such payments in excess of $50,000 reported by the Company as being used by the association for political purposes.

** Updated January 2026

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