In April, ICE Data Services, the rapidly growing data services arm of Intercontinental Exchange, announced the launch of a new reference data solution for clients that use ICE’s futures exchanges.
The new service aggregates reference data for futures and options traded on five futures exchanges operated by ICE: ICE Futures US, ICE Futures Europe, ICE Futures Canada, ICE Singapore and ICE Endex. The service includes all of the reference data now available through the exchanges, but normalizes that information into one feed and makes it available through APEX, the platform that ICE Data Services uses for pricing, analytics and reference data.
ICE Data Services said its reference data now covers more than 10 million financial instruments across all major asset classes, including equities and fixed income as well as futures and options. The announcement is the latest example of the market operator's effort to integrate the data and technology services offered by its various subsidiaries, including NYSE and SuperDerivatives, as well as recent acquisitions such as Interactive Data. ICE has now organized these services into four groups: pricing and analytics, exchange data, desktop and trading tools, and connectivity and data feed services.
