ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) provides transparent, fair and sustainable access to the benchmarks for all users. IBA licenses the use or redistribution of the benchmarks on a commercial and reasonable basis, to help set standards of fairness and transparency in benchmark distribution and licensing.

IBA benchmark data is available on a real-time, intraday or delayed basis through redistribution partners. For LIBOR and ICE Swap Rate, intraday data is available 4 hours after original publication time and delayed data is available 24 hours after original publication time. For LBMA Gold Price and LBMA Silver Price, intraday data is available 4 hours after original publication time and delayed data is available at midnight London time. Historical LIBOR data is also available on a 7-day delayed basis.

Clients wishing to use or redistribute IBA’s benchmarks require a license. Further information on the types of licenses available can be found below.

Licensing

Any entity or person that wishes to use IBA’s benchmark or other information and data needs to enter into an appropriate licence agreement with IBA. IBA currently makes available the following types of licence agreements for its benchmarks and other information and data:

Please see our Master Licence Agreement and our Fee Schedule below or contact IBA at [email protected] for further details.

Where an entity or person wishes to use IBA’s benchmark or other information and data in a manner not contemplated by one of our existing licenses, it should contact IBA at [email protected] to discuss entering into an appropriate licence arrangement.

IBA Master License Agreement

(Do not sign this version, please contact [email protected] for a version to execute)

Data Vendors and Redistributors

Details of authorized data vendors and redistributors for IBA’s benchmark and other data can be obtained from [email protected].

Additional Access Options for LIBOR

All of IBA's benchmarks can be accessed from redistributors and data vendors. In addition all IBA benchmarks are available via IBA’s MFT service.

MFT Service

MFT Connectivity Rules

Technical Documentation

Sample LIBOR file - “synthetic” rates USD
Sample LIBOR file - “synthetic” rates GBP

Sample Files - ICE Swap Rate

Sample ICE Swap Rate file - GBP SONIA RATES 1100
Sample ICE Swap Rate file - EUR RATES 1100
Sample ICE Swap Rate file - EUR RATES 1200
Sample ICE Swap Rate file - USD SOFR Rates 1100

Sample Files - LBMA Gold and LBMA Silver Price

Visit the LBMA Gold and Silver Price page for sample files

Note: Clients may find it easier to view the contents of the FIXML file using Microsoft Excel to tabulate the data into headed columns. To do this, save the file to your computer, then drag and drop the file onto an open Microsoft Excel window and select 'As an XML table' when presented with the 'Open XML' dialogue box (you may need to click 'OK' again if asked whether to create a schema based on the XML source data).

Note: Clients may find it easier to view the contents of the FIXML file using Microsoft Excel to tabulate the data into headed columns. To do this, save the file to your computer, then drag and drop the file onto an open Microsoft Excel window and select 'As an XML table' when presented with the 'Open XML' dialogue box (you may need to click 'OK' again if asked whether to create a schema based on the XML source data).

ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) is authorised and regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to carry out the Regulated Activity of “administering a benchmark”.

IBA has a majority independent board, comprised of both independent non-executive and executive directors.

IBA also maintains oversight committees for its benchmarks, which include representation from the market, industry bodies, benchmark contributors and infrastructure providers. See our individual benchmark pages for further details on our oversight committees.

IBA is a private company limited by shares, registered in England with company number 08457573. IBA’s registered office is at 2nd Floor, Sancroft, Rose Street, Paternoster Sq., London, EC4M 7DQ, UK.

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