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ICE for Hedge Funds

Where pricing, liquidity and intelligence converge.

From data to decision. From signal to settlement. Where it matters most.

The need for efficient price discovery, increased data transparency, and modern trading technology continues to grow. ICE is built to help meet those needs. We leverage collective experience across markets, clearing, data, and technology*, delivering end-to-end solutions designed for global markets across multiple asset classes to assist activities from research through to signal generation, back-testing, risk management, execution and settlement.

Subject to our affiliates' various regulatory obligations.

Where market innovation happens

Stay ahead of market structure - without the infrastructure cost.

ICE is actively shaping the next generation of market structure with innovative sophisticated technology solutions - enabling forward-thinking firms to benefit from efficient trading solutions, lower counterparty and settlement risk, and greater readiness as the regulatory environment develops.

Explore ICE Clear Credit

ICE Delivers:


  • Unlock opportunity and efficiency with ICE Aurora, ICE’s AI platform
    Bringing AI into what we do comes naturally, given that technology and innovation have been foundational to ICE since our inception; focused on enabling automation through tools that drive efficiency, and enhanced analytical insights, all guided by rigorous governance standards and a commitment to the responsible use of AI.
  • Pioneered the digitization of exchanges
    Continue to play a central role in price discovery, capital raising, indexing, clearing, and more.
  • CDS clearing leadership
    With capital-efficient margin methodology.
  • U.S. Treasury cash clearing at ICE Clear Credit
    SEC approved and operationally live alternative venue under the SEC's clearing mandate; UST repo clearing phase planned for future implementation pre-SEC repo compliance date.

Price with confidence

Pricing depth where it matters most.

Investment decisions depend on the quality and depth of the data beneath it. ICE's powerful combination of proprietary content, broad asset-class coverage, and clean, consistent historical time series can provide the depth and breadth to support quantitative models. Combined with comprehensive real-time and intraday pricing, it delivers powerful inputs to help support alpha-generation strategies, live trading, and risk management.

Explore Reference Data

ICE Delivers:

  • Decades of clean, comprehensive pricing history
    Across fixed income, equities, derivatives (rates, credit & CDS, equity, FX, commodities & energy), listed futures & options, FX, commodities and crypto - from vanilla to exotics.
  • Streaming and intraday datasets
    Including proprietary fixed income Continuous Evaluated Pricing™ (CEP™) and derivatives market data including curves and volatility surfaces.
  • Live market data and risk analytics
    On cash and derivatives cross-asset portfolios.
  • Corporate action adjusted pricing
    For equities.
  • 6,050+ fixed-income indices (incl. ICE BofA families)
    Tracking ~$125T of debt across 51 currencies.
  • Linked to reference data covering
    35M+ instruments, fundamentals, sectors, sanctions and corporate actions for contextual analysis - all in one place, no assembly required.

The data standard that risk, compliance & alpha demand

Your data is only as strong as the foundation behind it.

As hedge funds apply growing scrutiny over model inputs and data lineage, ICE helps reduce the cost and complexity of sourcing, validating and reconciling data quality across multiple providers.

Explore Mortgage Data & Analytics

ICE Delivers:

  • Institutional grade data quality and integrity
    Delivered through rigorous processes to help ensure transparency, audit trails, lineage and governance.
  • Proprietary content sets
    Pricing, including fixed income evaluated pricing, derivatives valuations, and analytics - across multiple asset classes.
  • Global reference data and corporate actions
    Supporting confidence across models, risk oversight and regulatory reporting.
  • Specialized mortgage insights (Mortgage Data & Analytics)
    And ICE MBS Mortality Indicator (IMMI) designed to help enhance short-term mortgage prepayment forecasting and trading strategy development, drawing on high-integrity, granular anonymized data from ICE's mortgage origination and servicing platforms.

Signals, sentiment & market intelligence

Trade narratives, not just pricing.

A strong data foundation is essential, but in the search for alpha, funds are increasingly looking for alternative insights beyond traditional security and market data. ICE Signals & Sentiment convert complex and unstructured data from sources not typically captured by market analysis into structured, actionable insights - helping to reduce the cost and complexity of building an alternative data capability.

Explore ICE Consolidated Feed

ICE Delivers:

  • Reddit Signals & Sentiment
    Streaming and historical data mapped to securities and ICE entity data, delivered on the ICE Consolidated Feed - quant-ready, normalized, back-testable up to 5 years.
  • Polymarket signals
    Event probability data from a leading prediction market platform, normalized for institutional consumption via ICE delivery.
  • Reddit and Polymarket signals
    Delivered alongside ICE's proprietary pricing, fundamentals, reference, and corporate actions data.

Built for the speed of modern markets

Latency is a position.

Across modern trading strategies, the quality and speed of access to markets and data is a critical source of competitive advantage. ICE's connectivity and content delivery infrastructure is designed to minimize the gap from signal generation to execution, with low-latency routes, resilient delivery, and flexible programmatic access - so your focus stays on strategy, research, and execution.

Explore APIs and delivery options

ICE Delivers:


  • ICE Global Network (IGN)
    Ultra-low-latency routes US–EU; colocation and hosting; time synchronization; raw tick history - all from a leading network provider.
  • Diverse access protocols including APIs, ICE Consolidated Feed, Snowflake, and file-based delivery
    Flexible and programmatic access across multiple protocols.
  • Solutions for compatibility with Large Language Models (LLM)
    Built for modern quant workflows, reducing terminal dependency.
  • Cloud delivery and colocation options
    To help meet the performance demands of mission-critical operations.
  • On-demand Portfolio Risk Analytics
    Via API.

Access liquidity where it actually trades

From insight to execution - on the venues that set the price.

ICE's market ecosystem allows hedge funds to find market opportunities, express macro views at scale and manage risk with direct access to some of the world's most important venues - enabling them to transact with confidence and become significantly more capital- and operationally efficient.

ICE Delivers:


  • Exchange markets
    Markets spanning energy, rates, equities, equity derivatives, commodities, carbon and fixed income.
  • Energy, environmental, and agricultural commodities
    Including softs - as key macro indicators: fuel and food markets are integral to assessing inflationary pressures, supply chain risk and global macro trends.
  • Record open interest across Brent and TTF
    And deep participation across Euribor/rates. Benchmarks used by the market.
  • ICE Bonds and ICE TMC
    All-to-all Alternative Trading System (ATS) with click-to-trade, RFQ (request for quote), auctions, sweep/Risk Matching Auction (RMA); odd lot to block; deep and broad liquidity pools across a range of cash and derivative markets.

Explore our Content Catalog to discover ICE's broad universe of financial data and analytics

It is a centralized, searchable application that showcases ICE's extensive universe of financial data and analytics, making it easier for you to discover and understand the content you need.

Related insights

Data & Technology

Reddit signals and sentiment analysis: precious metals decline

ICE sentiment data captures positive and negative sentiment within user-generated content on Reddit pertaining to investable securities.

Data & Technology

Reddit signals and sentiment analysis: cryptocurrencies fall

ICE sentiment data captures positive and negative sentiment within user-generated content on Reddit pertaining to investable securities.

Data & Technology

Inflation protection through U.S. Treasury securities: the case for short-term TIPS

For investors seeking to preserve purchasing power, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) may be a valuable tool.

Where differentiated data meets market-defining innovation

ICE brings together the data, infrastructure, and technology that power global markets into a connected experience built for the most demanding institutions in the world.

From data to decision. From signal to settlement. Where it matters most.

Important Disclosures

Trading and execution services are offered through ICE Bonds Securities Corporation or ICE Bonds, member FINRA, MSRB and SIPC. The information found herein, has been prepared solely for informational purposes and should not be considered investment advice, is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product(s), is intended for institutional customers only and is not intended for retail customer use. ICE Bonds offers extended hours trading on ICE BondPoint. Before engaging in extended hours trading, you should consider the points contained in ICE Bonds’ Extended Hours Trading Risk Disclosure, which can be found here.

Fixed income evaluations, continuous evaluated pricing, end-of-day evaluations, evaluated curves, model-based curves, market sentiment scores, Size-Adjusted Pricing, and Fair Value Information Services related to securities are provided in the US through ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC and internationally through ICE Data Services entities in Europe and Asia Pacific. ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC is a registered investment adviser with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information about ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC is available on the SEC's website at adviserinfo.sec.gov. A copy of ICE Data Pricing & Reference Data, LLC ’s Form ADV is available here or upon request.

Signals and Sentiment Limitations

In addition to the website terms of use, Signals and Sentiment Data is provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis, with all faults and at the user's own risk. Derived from third-party and user-generated sources, it may be affected by factors including participant biases, operational errors, system failures, price volatility, and potential market abuse or manipulation. Signals and Sentiment Data represents point-in-time outputs only. Certain historical data may be subject to periodic updates or revisions, including as a result of recalibration of models, enhancements of methodologies, or expended instrument coverage. Such updates may result in differences from previously provided data. Except as set forth in its agreements with third party providers, ICE Group does not undertake to update or revise Signals and Sentiment data to reflect subsequently available information. ICE Group does not control, endorse, or independently verify Signals and Sentiment Data. Signals and Sentiment Data does not constitute investment advice, trading recommendations, or a guarantee of future performance, and may not be used in connection with political advertising or electioneering. Signals and Sentiment Data reflects participant sentiment and trading activity only and does not constitute evidence, validation, or endorsement of any allegation, assertion, or political outcome by ICE Group. Users are solely responsible for understanding the limitations of the Signals and Sentiment Data, determining its utility, and for any decisions made in reliance thereon.

Polymarket Limitations

“Polymarket Data” means any data, indicators, or signals derived from the Polymarket prediction market platform, including data reflecting participant expectations, sentiment, or behavioral signals with respect to events and markets offered on that platform, as made available by ICE Group. Polymarket Data, as a component of Signals and Sentiment Data, is subject to all of the foregoing limitations and may be additionally affected by factors specific to prediction market platforms, including trading protocols, volume and frequency, and event definitions. In addition, ICE Group exercises no control over the underlying activities or markets on Polymarket's platform and is not acting on behalf of Polymarket or any operator thereof. Polymarket Data does not predict actual events or outcomes. Nothing in the provision of Polymarket Data constitutes an invitation, inducement, advertisement, or solicitation to engage in investment activity, betting, gambling, or participation in any prediction market service, and it is not possible to trade on, or link through to, the Polymarket platform via ICE Group's services. Polymarket products may not be available in all jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany, where regulatory warnings or restrictions have been issued, and users are solely responsible for ensuring that their access to and use of Polymarket Data complies with all applicable local laws and regulations. Users are solely responsible for understanding the limitations of the data, determining its utility, and for any decisions made in reliance thereon.