UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
     
Form 10-Q
 
  
(Mark One) 
þQuarterly Report Pursuant to SectionQUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 orOR 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act ofOF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019
Or
¨Transition Report Pursuant to SectionTRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 orOR 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 For the transition period from                 to
Commission File Number 001-36198
     
INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Delaware46-2286804
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(IRS Employer
Identification Number)
5660 New Northside Drive,
Atlanta, Georgia
30328
(Zip Code)
(Address of principal executive offices) 
(770) 857-4700
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code 
     
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of Each ClassTrading Symbol(s)Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per shareICENew York Stock Exchange
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes þ No¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).  YesþNo¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer þ
Accelerated filer ¨
Non-accelerated filer ¨
Smaller reporting company   ¨
Emerging growth company ¨
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.¨   
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes ¨Noþ
As of October 26, 2018,April 29, 2019, the number of shares of the registrant’s Common Stock outstanding was 569,583,956563,865,016 shares.
     


 
 
INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE, INC.
Form 10-Q
Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
 
   
   
PART I.Financial Statements 
Item 1. 
 Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and December 31, 20172018
 Consolidated Statements of Income for the nine and three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018 and 2017
 Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the nine and three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018 and 2017
 Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Redeemable Non-Controlling Interest for the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018 and for the year ended December 31, 2017
 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018 and 2017
 
Item 2.
Item 3.
Item 4.
   
PART II.Other Information 
Item 1.
Item 1A.
Item 2.
Item 3.
Item 4.
Item 5.
Item 6.


PART I. Financial Statements
Item 1.    Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In millions, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
As of As ofAs of As of
September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018
Assets:      
Current assets:      
Cash and cash equivalents$515
 $535
$653
 $724
Short-term restricted cash and cash equivalents817
 769
868
 818
Customer accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $7 and $6 at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively1,020
 903
Customer accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $7 at March 31, 2019 and December 31, 20181,181
 953
Margin deposits, guaranty funds and delivery contracts receivable58,764
 51,222
64,564
 63,955
Prepaid expenses and other current assets179
 133
219
 242
Total current assets61,295
 53,562
67,485
 66,692
Property and equipment, net1,206
 1,246
1,538
 1,241
Other non-current assets:      
Goodwill12,934
 12,216
13,098
 13,085
Other intangible assets, net10,445
 10,269
10,406
 10,462
Long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents330
 264
370
 330
Other non-current assets1,032
 707
960
 981
Total other non-current assets24,741
 23,456
24,834
 24,858
Total assets$87,242
 $78,264
$93,857
 $92,791
      
Liabilities and Equity:      
Current liabilities:      
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities$486
 $462
$509
 $521
Section 31 fees payable21
 128
70
 105
Accrued salaries and benefits217
 227
125
 280
Deferred revenue249
 125
479
 135
Short-term debt1,198
 1,833
1,005
 951
Margin deposits, guaranty funds and delivery contracts payable58,764
 51,222
64,564
 63,955
Other current liabilities130
 178
283
 161
Total current liabilities61,065
 54,175
67,035
 66,108
Non-current liabilities:      
Non-current deferred tax liability, net2,275
 2,298
2,308
 2,337
Long-term debt6,488
 4,267
6,492
 6,490
Accrued employee benefits235
 243
203
 204
Operating lease liability-non-current306
 
Other non-current liabilities325
 296
312
 350
Total non-current liabilities9,323
 7,104
9,621
 9,381
Total liabilities70,388
 61,279
76,656
 75,489
Commitments and contingencies

 



 

Redeemable non-controlling interest in consolidated subsidiaries71
 71
Equity:      
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. stockholders’ equity:      
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value; 100 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017
 
Common stock, $0.01 par value; 1,500 shares authorized; 603 and 600 shares issued at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively, and 571 and 583 shares outstanding at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively6
 6
Treasury stock, at cost; 32 and 17 shares at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively(2,213) (1,076)
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value; 100 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding at March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018
 

Common stock, $0.01 par value; 1,500 shares authorized; 606 and 604 shares issued at March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively, and 565 and 569 shares outstanding at March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively6
 6
Treasury stock, at cost; 41 and 35 shares at March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively(2,851) (2,354)
Additional paid-in capital11,495
 11,392
11,597
 11,547
Retained earnings7,818
 6,858
8,644
 8,317
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(274) (223)(290) (315)
Total Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. stockholders’ equity16,832
 16,957
17,106
 17,201
Non-controlling interest in consolidated subsidiaries22
 28
24
 30
Total equity16,854
 16,985
17,130
 17,231
Total liabilities and equity$87,242
 $78,264
$93,857
 $92,791

See accompanying notes.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Income
(In millions, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
 Three Months Ended September 30, Three Months Ended March 31,
2018 2017 2018 2017 2019 2018
Revenues:           
Transaction and clearing, net$2,522
 $2,373
 $760
 $758
 $862
 $898
Data services1,576
 1,559
 530
 518
 546
 520
Listings332
 322
 112
 105
 111
 109
Other revenues169
 148
 61
 54
 64
 53
Total revenues4,599
 4,402
 1,463
 1,435
 1,583
 1,580
Transaction-based expenses:           
Section 31 fees272
 275
 61
 92
 69
 121
Cash liquidity payments, routing and clearing656
 635
 202
 197
 244
 234
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses3,671
 3,492
 1,200
 1,146
 1,270
 1,225
Operating expenses:           
Compensation and benefits732
 717
 251
 234
 248
 240
Professional services91
 94
 32
 30
 33
 30
Acquisition-related transaction and integration costs33
 27
 6
 4
 
 12
Technology and communication320
 294
 107
 99
 107
 105
Rent and occupancy50
 52
 17
 17
 17
 17
Selling, general and administrative109
 117
 37
 38
 42
 33
Depreciation and amortization429
 404
 148
 128
 158
 138
Total operating expenses1,764
 1,705
 598
 550
 605
 575
Operating income1,907
 1,787
 602
 596
 665
 650
Other income (expense):           
Interest income 9
 4
Interest expense(173) (137) (66) (47) (71) (52)
Other income, net48
 205
 18
 14
 23
 15
Other income (expense), net(125) 68
 (48) (33) (39) (33)
Income before income tax expense1,782
 1,855
 554
 563
 626
 617
Income tax expense381
 540
 89
 186
 134
 143
Net income$1,401
 $1,315
 $465
 $377
 $492
 $474
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest(24) (22) (7) (6) (8) (10)
Net income attributable to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.$1,377
 $1,293
 $458
 $371
 $484
 $464
Earnings per share attributable to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. common stockholders:           
Basic$2.39
 $2.19
 $0.80
 $0.63
 $0.85
 $0.80
Diluted$2.37
 $2.17
 $0.79
 $0.63
 $0.85
 $0.79
Weighted average common shares outstanding:        ��  
Basic577
 591
 572
 588
 568
 582
Diluted581
 595
 576
 592
 570
 586
Dividend per share$0.72
 $0.60
 $0.24
 $0.20

See accompanying notes.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
 Three Months Ended September 30, Three Months Ended March 31,
2018 2017 2018 2017 2019 2018
Net income$1,401
 $1,315
 $465
 $377
 $492
 $474
Other comprehensive income (loss):           
Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax benefit (expense) of $1 and ($11) for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and ($4) for the three months ended September 30, 2017(51) 130
 (9) 45
Change in fair value of available-for-sale securities
 68
 
 
Reclassification of realized gain on available-for-sale investment to other income
 (176) 
 
Other comprehensive income (loss)(51) 22
 (9) 45
Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax benefit (expense) of $0 and ($1) for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively 26
 33
Change in equity method investment (1) 
Other comprehensive income 25
 33
Comprehensive income$1,350
 $1,337
 $456
 $422
 $517
 $507
Comprehensive income attributable to non-controlling interest(24) (22) (7) (6) (8) (10)
Comprehensive income attributable to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.$1,326
 $1,315
 $449
 $416
 $509
 $497

See accompanying notes.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
and Redeemable Non-Controlling Interest
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. Stockholders’ Equity 
Non-
Controlling
Interest in
Consolidated
Subsidiaries
 
Total
Equity
 Redeemable Non-Controlling InterestIntercontinental Exchange, Inc. Stockholders’ Equity 
Non-
Controlling
Interest in
Consolidated
Subsidiaries
 
Total
Equity
 Redeemable Non-Controlling Interest
Common
 Stock
 Treasury Stock 
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
 
Retained
Earnings
 
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss
 
Common
 Stock
 Treasury Stock 
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
 
Retained
Earnings
 
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss
 
Shares Value Shares Value Shares Value Shares Value 
Balance, as of December 31, 2016596
 $6
 (1) $(40) $11,306
 $4,810
 $(344) $37
 $15,775
 $36
Balance, as of December 31, 2018604
 6
 (35) (2,354) 11,547
 8,317
 (315) 30
 17,231
 71
Other comprehensive income
 
 
 
 
 
 121
 
 121
 

 
 
 
 
 
 25
 
 25
 
Exercise of common stock options
 
 
 
 17
 
 
 
 17
 

 
 
 
 5
 
 
 
 5
 
Repurchases of common stock
 
 (15) (949) 
 
 
 
 (949) 

 
 (6) (440) 
 
 
 
 (440) 
Payments relating to treasury shares
 
 (1) (88) 
 
 
 
 (88) 

 
 
 (57) 
 
 
 
 (57) 
Stock-based compensation
 
 
 
 152
 
 
 
 152
 

 
 
 
 33
 
 
 
 33
 
Issuance under the employee stock purchase plan
 
 
 
 12
 
 
 
 12
 
Issuance of restricted stock4
 
 
 1
 (1) 
 
 
 
 
2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Acquisition of non-controlling interest
 
 
 
 (82) 
 
 (10) (92) 
Distributions of profits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (26) (26) 
Dividends paid to stockholders
 
 
 
 
 (476) 
 
 (476) 
Acquisition of redeemable non-controlling interest
 
 
 
 
 (2) 
 
 (2) (37)
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest
 
 
 
 
 (28) 
 27
 (1) 1
Net income
 
 
 
 
 2,554
 
 
 2,554
 
Balance, as of December 31, 2017600
 6
 (17) (1,076) 11,392
 6,858
 (223) 28
 16,985
 
Other comprehensive loss
 
 
 
 
 
 (51) 
 (51) 
Exercise of common stock options
 
 
 
 19
 
 
 
 19
 
Repurchases of common stock
 
 (14) (1,059) 
 
 
 
 (1,059) 
Payments relating to treasury shares
 
 (1) (78) 
 
 
 
 (78) 
Stock-based compensation
 
 
 
 107
 
 
 
 107
 
Issuance of restricted stock3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Acquisition of non-controlling interest
 
 
 
 (23) 
 
 (2) (25) 
Distributions of profits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (28) (28) 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 (14) (14) 
Dividends paid to stockholders
 
 
 
 
 (417) 
 
 (417) 

 
 
 
 
 (157) 
 
 (157) 
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest
 
 
 
 
 (24) 
 24
 
 

 
 
 
 
 (8) 
 8
 
 
Net income
 
 
 
 
 1,401
 
 
 1,401
 

 
 
 
 
 492
 
 
 492
 
Balance, as of September 30, 2018603
 $6
 (32) $(2,213) $11,495
 $7,818
 $(274) $22
 $16,854
 $
Balance, as of March 31, 2019606
 $6
 (41) $(2,851) $11,597
 $8,644
 $(290) $24
 $17,130
 $71
 As of As of
 September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017
Accumulated other comprehensive loss was as follows:   
Foreign currency translation adjustments$(187) $(136)
Comprehensive income from equity method investment2
 2
Employee benefit plans adjustments(89) (89)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss$(274) $(223)
 Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. Stockholders’ Equity 
Non-
Controlling
Interest in
Consolidated
Subsidiaries
 
Total
Equity
 Redeemable Non-Controlling Interest
 
Common
 Stock
 Treasury Stock 
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
 
Retained
Earnings
 
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss
 
 Shares Value Shares Value 
Balance, as of December 31, 2017600
 6
 (17) (1,076) 11,392
 6,858
 (223) 28
 16,985
 
Other comprehensive income
 
 
 
 
 
 33
 
 33
 
Exercise of common stock options
 
 
 
 4
 
 
 
 4
 
Repurchases of common stock
 
 (4) (300) 
 
 
 
 (300) 
Payments relating to treasury shares
 
 (1) (72) 
 
 
 
 (72) 
Stock-based compensation
 
 
 
 32
 
 
 
 32
 
Issuance of restricted stock3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Distributions of profits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (10) (10) 
Dividends paid to stockholders
 
 
 
 
 (140) 
 
 (140) 
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest
 
 
 
 
 (10) 
 10
 
 
Net income
 
 
 
 
 474
 
 
 474
 
Balance, as of March 31, 2018603
 $6
 (22) $(1,448) $11,428
 $7,182
 $(190) $28
 $17,006
 $

See accompanying notes.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
Three Months Ended 
 March 31,
2018 20172019 2018
Operating activities:      
Net income$1,401
 $1,315
$492
 $474
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:      
Depreciation and amortization429
 404
158
 138
Stock-based compensation93
 102
29
 29
Deferred taxes(2) 58
(28) (6)
Cetip realized investment gain, net
 (114)
Other(11) (13)(21) 1
Changes in assets and liabilities:      
Customer accounts receivable(119) (153)(227) (259)
Other current and non-current assets(24) (29)15
 (32)
Section 31 fees payable(117) (99)(35) (8)
Deferred revenue124
 129
347
 343
Other current and non-current liabilities(39) (190)(76) (107)
Total adjustments334
 95
162
 99
Net cash provided by operating activities1,735
 1,410
654
 573
      
Investing activities:      
Capital expenditures(49) (136)(26) (14)
Capitalized software development costs(112) (104)(39) (37)
Proceeds from sale of Cetip, net
 438
Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash received for divestiture(1,151) 9
Cash paid for acquisitions(19) (400)
Return of capital from equity method investment44
 
Purchases of investments(305) 

 (304)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities(1,617) 207
Net cash used in investing activities(40) (755)
      
Financing activities:      
Proceeds from debt facilities2,213
 985
Repayments of debt facilities(600) (850)
Repayments of commercial paper, net(35) (445)
Proceeds from commercial paper, net of repayments54
 789
Repurchases of common stock(1,059) (709)(440) (300)
Dividends to stockholders(417) (358)(157) (140)
Payments relating to treasury shares received for restricted stock tax payments and stock option exercises(78) (85)(57) (72)
Acquisition of non-controlling interest and redeemable non-controlling interest(35) (55)
Other(8) (17)4
 (7)
Net cash used in financing activities(19) (1,534)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities(596) 270
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents(5) 9
1
 2
Net increase in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents94
 92
19
 90
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period1,568
 1,350
1,872
 1,568
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents, end of period$1,662
 $1,442
$1,891
 $1,658
      
Supplemental cash flow disclosure:      
Cash paid for income taxes$424
 $511
$78
 $144
Cash paid for interest$136
 $99
$79
 $27

See accompanying notes.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Unaudited)

1.Description of Business
Nature of Business and Organization
We are a leading global operator of regulated exchanges, clearing houses and listings venues, and a provider of data services for commodity, financial, fixed income and equity markets. We operate regulated marketplaces for listing, trading and clearing a broad array of derivatives contracts and securities contracts across all major asset classes, including energy and agricultural commodities, metals, interest rates, equities, equity derivatives, exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, credit derivatives, bonds and currencies. We also offer end-to-endcomprehensive data services and solutions to support the trading, investment, risk management, mortgage service and connectivity needs of customers around the world and across all major asset classes.
Our exchanges include derivative exchanges in the United States, or U.S., United Kingdom, or U.K., European Union, or EU, Canada and Singapore, and cash equities, equity options and bond exchangestrading venues in the U.S. We also operate over-the-counter, or OTC, markets for physical energy, fixed income and credit default swaps, or CDS, trade execution. To serve global derivatives markets, we operate central counterparty clearing houses, or CCPs, in the U.S., U.K., EU, Canada and Singapore (Note 10)11). We offer a range of data services for global financial and commodity markets, including pricing and reference data, exchange data, analytics, feeds, index services, desktops and connectivity solutions. Through our markets, clearing houses, listings and data services, we provide end-to-endcomprehensive solutions for our customers through liquid markets, benchmark products, access to capital markets and related services to support their ability to manage risk and raise capital. Our business is currently conducted as two reportable business segments, our Trading and Clearing segment and our Data and Listings segment, and the majority of our identifiable assets are located in the U.S., and U.K. and Canada (Note 13)14).

2.     Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared by us in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or U.S. GAAP, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, regarding interim financial reporting. Accordingly, the unaudited consolidated financial statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2017.2018. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments that are, in our opinion, necessary for a fair presentation of results for the interim periods presented. We believe that these adjustments are of a normal recurring nature.
Preparing financial statements requires us to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts that are reported in theour consolidated financial statements and accompanying disclosures. Actual results may be differentamounts could differ from thesethose estimates. The results of operations for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period or the full fiscal year.
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financialThese statements include ourthe accounts and those of our wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions between us and our wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries have been eliminated in the consolidation. For those consolidated subsidiaries in which our ownership is less than 100% and for which we have control over the assets and liabilities and the management of the entity, the outside stockholders’ interests are shown as non-controlling interests.
Reclassifications





Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period’s financial statement presentation. See "Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements" below for a discussion of our adoption of new accounting standards.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
On January 1, 2018, we adopted Accounting Standards Codification, or ASC, Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, and ASC 340-40, Other Assets and Deferred Costs - Contracts with Customers, collectively referred to as ASC 606. ASC 606 provides guidance outlining a single comprehensive model for entities to use in accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers. ASC 606 superseded most revenue recognition guidance and requires us to recognize revenue when we transfer promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. ASC 606 requires enhanced disclosures, including (i) revenue recognition policies used to identify performance obligations to customers and (ii) the use of significant judgments in measurement and recognition. We adopted ASC 606 retrospectively and restated each prior period presented to reflect our adoption thereof. The impacts of our

adoption of ASC 606 on our results for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively, were disclosed in our 2017 Form 10-K.
The adoption of ASC 606 accelerated the timing of recognition of a portion of original listing fees related to our New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE, businesses. In addition, and to a lesser extent, the adoption decelerated the timing of recognition of a portion of clearing fee revenues. Revenue recognition related to all other trading, clearing and data businesses remains unchanged.
Our adoption of ASC 606 had the following impact on our reported results for the prior periods presented, driven primarily by the accelerated recognition of listings fee revenue in our NYSE businesses (in millions, except earnings per share):
 As Reported New Revenue Standard Adjustment As Adjusted
Nine months ended September 30, 2017     
Total revenues$4,395
 $7
 $4,402
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses3,485
 7
 3,492
Income tax expense537
 3
 540
Net income attributable to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.1,289
 4
 1,293
Basic earnings per share$2.18
 $0.01
 $2.19
Diluted earnings per share$2.17
 $
 $2.17
 As Reported New Revenue Standard Adjustment As Adjusted
Three months ended September 30, 2017     
Total revenues$1,432
 $3
 $1,435
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses1,143
 3
 1,146
Income tax expense185
 1
 186
Net income attributable to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.369
 2
 371
Basic earnings per share$0.63
 $
 $0.63
Diluted earnings per share$0.62
 $0.01
 $0.63
 As Reported New Revenue Standard Adjustment As Adjusted
As of December 31, 2017     
Deferred revenue, current$121
 $4
 $125
Deferred revenue, non-current143
 (52) 91
Net deferred tax liabilities2,280
 15
 2,295
Retained earnings6,825
 33
 6,858
Additional disclosures related to our adoption of ASC 606 are provided in Note 4.
Standard/DescriptionEffective Date and Adoption ConsiderationsEffect on Financial Statements
ASU No. 2016-02, Leases. Entities are required to recognize both assets and liabilities arising from finance and operating leases, along with additional qualitative and quantitative disclosures.
We adopted ASU No. 2016-02 on January 1, 2019.Further disclosures and details on our adoption of ASU 2016-02 are discussed below.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, has issued Accounting Standards Update, or ASU, No. 2017-07, Compensation-Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost, or ASU 2017-07. The amendments in ASU 2017-07 require that an employer disaggregate the service cost component from the other components of net benefit cost. The amendments also provide explicit guidance on how to present the service cost component in the same line item as other related compensation costs, and the other components of net benefit cost in the income statement outside of operating income. The guidance only allows the service cost component of net benefit cost to be eligible for capitalization. We adopted ASU 2017-07 on January 1, 2018 and applied it retrospectively to each prior period presented. We have a pension plan, a U.S. nonqualified supplemental executive retirement plan, and post-retirement defined benefit plans that are all impacted by the guidance. Each of the foregoing plans are frozen and do not have a service cost component, which means the expense or benefit recognized under each plan represents other components of net benefit cost as defined in the guidance. The combined net periodic (expense) benefit of these plans was ($6 million) and $6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and ($2 million) and $2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and was previously reported as an adjustment to compensation and benefits expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of income. Following our adoption of ASU 2017-07, these amounts were reclassified to be

included in other income, net, in the accompanying consolidated statements of income, and these adjustments had no impact on net income. 
The FASB has issued ASU No. 2016-01, Financial Instruments - Overall (Subtopic 825-10): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, or ASU 2016-01. ASU 2016-01 provides updated guidance for the recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of certain financial assets and liabilities, including the requirement that equity investments (except (i) those accounted for under the equity method of accounting or (ii) those that result in consolidation of the investee) are to be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income. We adopted ASU 2016-01 on January 1, 2018. Our equity investments, including our investments in Euroclear plc, or Euroclear (Note 3), and Coinbase Global, Inc., or Coinbase, among others, are now subject to valuation under ASU 2016-01. These investments do not currently have readily determinable fair market values as they are not publicly-listed companies. ASU 2016-01 permits a policy election to only adjust the fair value of such investments if and when there is an observable price change in an orderly transaction of a similar or identical investment occurring after adoption, with any change in fair value recognized in net income. We have made this policy election for all of our equity investments without readily determinable fair values, and our adoption of ASU 2016-01 did not result in any fair value adjustments as of September 30, 2018.
In December 2017, the SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, or SAB 118, which provided guidance for companies that have not completed their accounting for the income tax effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, or TCJA, in the period of enactment, allowing for a measurement period of up to one year after the enactment date to finalize the recording of the related tax impacts. We are applying the guidance in SAB 118 when accounting for the enactment-date effects of the TCJA. As of September 30, 2018, our estimates recorded as of December 31, 2017 for the tax effects of the TCJA, are not final. Our estimates recorded as of December 31, 2017 and as of September 30, 2018 may be affected due to changes in interpretations of the legislation, changes in accounting standards or related interpretations in response to the TCJA. We have also made reasonable estimates of the TCJA’s impact on state income tax. Our estimates are based on the best available information as of September 30, 2018 and our interpretation of the TCJA and related state tax implications as currently enacted. Our estimates do not include any potential federal or state administrative and/or legislative adjustments to certain provisions of the TCJA and related state provisions. We will continue to analyze the TCJA in order to finalize related federal and state impacts within the measurement period.
In January 2018, the FASB staff issued Question & Answer Topic 740, No. 5, Accounting for Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income, stating that a company may either elect to treat taxes due on future inclusions of its non-U.S. income in its U.S. taxable income under the newly enacted Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income provisions as a current period expense when incurred, or factor them into the company’s measurement of its deferred taxes. As of September 30, 2018, we have completed our analysis of the two different accounting policies and have made an election to recognize such taxes as a current period expense when incurred. 
In the fourth quarter of 2017, we adopted ASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows: Restricted Cash, or ASU 2016-18, which requires us to show the changes in the total of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents in the statement of cash flows. As a result, we no longer present transfers between cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents in the statement of cash flows. We have reclassified changes in restricted cash from cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities, to the total change in beginning and end-of-period balances. Our statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 reflect this change.
Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
The FASB has issued
Standard/DescriptionEffective Date and Adoption ConsiderationsEffect on Financial Statements
ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments - Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. Applies to all financial instruments carried at amortized cost including held-to-maturity debt securities and trade receivables. Requires financial assets carried at amortized cost to be presented at the net amount expected to be collected and requires entities to record credit losses through an allowance for credit losses on available-for-sale debt securities.
Effective at the beginning of our first quarter of fiscal year 2020, with early adoption permitted. We do not expect to early adopt.We are currently evaluating this guidance to determine the potential impact on our consolidated financial statements.
Adoption of ASU No. 2016-02, "Leases"
On January 1, 2019, we adopted ASU 2016-02, Leases, or ASU 2016-02.ASU 2016-02 This standard requires an entity to recognizerecognition of both assets and liabilities arising from finance and operating leases, along with additional qualitative and quantitative disclosures. ItASU 2016-02 requires a lesseelessees to recognize a liability in its balance sheet to make lease payments (the lease liability) and a right-of-use, or ROU, asset representing itsa right to use the underlying asset forover the lease term. In transition, lesseesterm, and lessors are required to recognize and measure leases at the beginning of the earliest period presented using a modified retrospective approach. ASU 2016-02 is required to be adopted at the beginning of our first quarter of fiscal year 2019, with early adoption permitted. We do not expect to adopt ASU 2016-02 early and we expect to record a material right-of-use asset and offsettingcorresponding lease liability on our adoption date of January 1, 2019,the balance sheet. Our operating leases primarily relatedrelate to our leased office space and data center facilities. facilities, and we do not have any leases classified as finance leases.
We expect that we will elect the alternative transition approach allowed underadopted ASU 2016-02 under which we will record a cumulative effect adjustment to retained earnings on January 1, 2019,using the modified retrospective transition method and willdid not restate prior periods. We expect to implement new accounting policies as well as to elect certainUsing the modified retrospective approach, we applied the provisions of ASU 2016-02 beginning in the period of adoption, and elected the package of practical expedients available to us under ASU 2016-02, including those relatedus. There was no impact to capitalization thresholds, leases with termsthe opening balance of less than 12-monthsretained earnings as a result of a cumulative-effect adjustment on the adoption date. We elected the practical expedient to not reassess lease classifications, but alternatively to carry forward our historical classifications. In addition, we elected the practical expedient of not separating lease and non-lease components as our application of discount rates. Welease arrangements are continuing to evaluate this guidance to determine the actual impactnot highly dependent on our consolidated financial statements.other underlying assets. Our implementation of the amended lease guidance is subject to the same internal controls over financial reporting that we apply to our consolidated financial statements.

The FASB has issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments - Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, or ASU 2016-13. ASU 2016-13 applies to all financial instruments carried at amortized cost including held-to-maturity debt securities as well as trade receivables. ASU 2016-13 requires financial assets carried at amortized cost to be presented at the net amount expected to be collected and available-for-sale debt securities to record credit losses through an allowance for credit losses. ASU 2016-13 is required to be adopted at the beginning of our first quarter of fiscal year 2020, with early adoption permitted. We do not expect to adopt ASU 2016-13 early and we are currently evaluating this guidance to determine the potential impact on our consolidated financial statements.
The FASB has issued ASU No. 2018-02, Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulative Other Comprehensive Income, or ASU 2018-02. ASU 2018-02 gives entities the option to reclassify certain tax effects related to items in accumulated other comprehensive income, or OCI, that have been stranded in OCI as a result of the enactment of the TCJA to retained earnings. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 with early adoption permitted. As of September 30, 2018 we have not adopted ASU 2018-02 early and we currently expect our adoption of ASU 2018-02 to result in a balance sheet reclassification from OCI to retained earnings of approximately $26 million. We are continuing to evaluate this guidance to determine the final impact on our consolidated financial statements.

3.Acquisitions and Investments
Acquisitions
On January 2, 2018, we acquired BondPoint from Virtu Financial, Inc. for $400 million in cash. BondPoint is a provider of electronic fixed income trading solutions for the buy-side and sell-side, offering access to centralized liquidity and automated trade execution services through its alternative trading system, or ATS, and provides trading services to more than 500 financial services firms. BondPoint is primarily included in our Trading and Clearing segment. The BondPoint purchase price was allocated to the preliminary net tangible and identifiable intangible assets and liabilities based on their estimated fair values as of January 2, 2018. The identifiable intangible assets acquired were $130 million and included (i) customer relationships of $123 million, which have been assigned a useful life of 15 years, and (ii) developed technology of $7 million, which has been assigned a life of three years. The excess of the purchase price over the preliminary net tangible and identifiable intangible assets was $267 million and was recorded as goodwill.
On July 18, 2018, we acquired CHX Holdings, Inc., the parent company of the Chicago Stock Exchange, or CHX, a full-service stock exchange, including trading, data and corporate listings services. CHX operates as a registered national securities exchange, and is primarily included in our Trading and Clearing segment.
On July 23, 2018, we acquired TMC Bonds, LLC, or TMC Bonds, for $701 million in cash. The cash consideration is gross of $14 million cash held by TMC Bonds on the date of acquisition. TMC Bonds is an electronic fixed income marketplace, supporting anonymous trading across multiple protocols in various asset classes, including municipals, corporates, treasuries, agencies and certificates of deposit. TMC Bonds is primarily included in our Trading and Clearing segment. The purchase price of TMC Bonds was allocated to the preliminary net tangible and identifiable intangible assets and liabilities based on their estimated fair values as of July 23, 2018. The identifiable intangible assets acquired were $261 million and primarily included (i) customer relationships of $253 million, which have been assigned a useful life of 15 years, and (ii) developed technology of $7 million, which has been assigned a useful life of three years. The excess of the purchase price over the preliminary net tangible and identifiable intangible assets was $423 million and was recorded as goodwill.
On July 20, 2018, we exercised our option to purchase all of the remaining equity interests of MERSCORP Holdings, Inc., owner of Mortgage Electronic Registrations Systems, Inc., or collectively, MERS, as a result of satisfying our deliverables under the software development agreement to rebuild the MERS® System to benefit the U.S. residential mortgage finance market. As of September 30, 2018, we owned a majority stake in MERS, which we treated as an equity investment since we did not have the ability to control the operations of MERS. On October 3, 2018, we completed the purchase of all remaining interests and accordingly, own 100% of MERS. On that date, we gained control of MERS and began to include MERS's results as part of our consolidated operations. In connection with the purchase and upon consolidation, we expect to record a $110 million gain on our initial investment value, which would be included in other non-operating income on October 3, 2018. MERS is included in our Trading and Clearing segment.
Investment in Euroclear
During the year ended December 31, 2017, we purchased a 4.7% stake in Euroclear valued at €276 million ($327 million). Upon purchasing this stake, we agreed to participate on the Euroclear Board of Directors. During the same period, we negotiated an additional purchase which closed on February 21, 2018 following regulatory approval. This provided us with an additional 5.1% stake in Euroclear for a purchase price of €246 million in cash ($304 million). As of September 30, 2018, we owned a 9.8% stake in

Euroclear for a total investment of $631 million. Euroclear is a provider of post-trade services, including settlement, central securities depositories and related services for cross-border transactions across asset classes.
We classify our investment in Euroclear as an equity investment included in other non-current assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. As discussed in Note 2, we adopted ASU 2016-01 on January 1, 2018. Under ASU 2016-01, for equity investments without a readily determinable fair value, we may elect to measure them at cost, less any impairment, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions in similar or identical investments. We have elected to use this approach to estimate the value of the Euroclear investment. During the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, there were no downward or upward adjustments made to the carrying amount of our investment in Euroclear.
Purchase of Non-Controlling Interest
For consolidated subsidiaries in which our ownership is less than 100% and for which we have control over the assets, liabilities and management of the entity, the outside stockholders’ interests are shown as non-controlling interest in our consolidated financial statements. As of December 31, 2017, non-controlling interest consisted of the operating results of our CDS clearing subsidiaries in which non-ICE limited partners held a 29.9% ownership interest. During September 2018, we purchased 3.2% of the ownership interest from a non-ICE limited partner and the remaining non-ICE limited partners hold a 26.7% ownership interest as of September 30, 2018.

4.Revenue Recognition
We adopted ASC 606 on January 1, 2018 on a full retrospective basis and have restated the prior reporting periods presented as if ASC 606 had always been applied (Note 2). Our adoption of ASC 606 did not have a material impact on the measurement or recognition of revenue in any prior or current reporting periods. Our adoption of ASC 606 was subject to the same internal controls over financial reporting that we apply to our consolidated financial statements.
At lease inception, we review the service arrangement and components of a contract to identify if a lease or embedded lease arrangement exists. An indicator of a contract containing a lease is when we have the right to control and use an identified asset over a period of time in exchange for consideration. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at the commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term, using our estimated incremental borrowing rate. We made the policy election to not record leases with a term of 12 months or less on the balance sheet, and to recognize lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term for those leases, the impact of which is nominal. We have also made policy elections related to capitalization thresholds and discount rates. We have elected to use a portfolio approach in consideration of our incremental borrowing rate to our population of lease agreements. Our incremental borrowing rate was determined based on our recent debt issuances that we believe are reflective of current borrowing rates. Certain lease agreements include options to extend, renew or terminate the lease agreement. As of March 31, 2019, the weighted-average remaining lease term was 7.2 years and the weighted average discount rate was 3.6%. Our lease agreements do not contain any residual value guarantees.

Upon adoption of ASU 2016-02, we recorded $357 million in operating lease liabilities, of which $52 million is included in other current liabilities and $305 million is included in operating lease liability-non-current within our accompanying consolidated balance sheet. We also recorded $308 million in operating lease ROU assets that are included as a component of property and equipment, net, in our balance sheet and are recorded in an amount equal to our lease liability, adjusted for any remaining unamortized lease incentives such as our deferred rent balances. As part of our adoption, we eliminated $49 million in deferred rent liabilities, of which $2 million had previously been included in other current liabilities and $47 million had been included in other non-current liabilities on our balance sheet. On the date of adoption, deferred rent liabilities were reclassified and presented as a reduction to the ROU asset, included in property and equipment, net on our consolidated balance sheet. Our adoption did not have an impact on our consolidated income statement.
We recognize rent expense monthly on a straight-line basis for each respective operating leases, as a reduction to both the ROU asset and the lease liability. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, we recognized $10 million of rent expense for office space as rent and occupancy expense and $5 million of rent expense for data center facilities as technology and communication expense within our consolidated income statement. We do not have any significant variable lease costs related to building and maintenance costs, real estate taxes, or other charges.
Details of our lease asset and liability balances are as follows (in millions):
  As of March 31, 2019
 
As of January 1, 2019

Right-of-use lease assets $308 $308
     
Operating lease liability-current 53
 52
Operating lease liability-non-current 306
 305
Total operating lease liability $359 $357

As of March 31, 2019, we estimate that our operating lease liabilities will be recognized in the following years (in millions):
Remainder of 2019$49
202063
202161
202259
202343
Thereafter134
Lease liability amounts repayable409
Interest costs50
Total operating lease liability$359

Supplemental cash flow information and non-cash activity related to our operating leases are as follows:
 Three Months Ended 
 March 31, 2019
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities$15
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease obligations

$372

3.Investments
Our equity investments, including our investments in Euroclear plc, or Euroclear, and Coinbase Global, Inc., among others, are subject to valuation under ASU 2016-01, Financial Instruments- Overall (Subtopic 825-10): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities. See Note 13 for a discussion of our determination of fair value of our financial instruments.
In addition, we own a 40% interest in the Options Clearing Corporation, or OCC, through a direct investment by NYSE that we treat as an equity method investment. OCC serves as a clearing house for securities options, security futures, commodity futures and options on futures traded on various independent exchanges. OCC clears securities options traded on NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex Options, along with other non-affiliated exchanges, and is regulated by the SEC as a registered clearing

agency and by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, as a derivatives clearing organization. Under equity method accounting, each reporting period we adjust the carrying value of our OCC investment on our balance sheet by recognizing our pro-rata 40% share of the earnings or losses of OCC, with a corresponding adjustment in our statement of income to other income, after eliminating any intra-entity income or expenses. In addition, if and when OCC issues cash dividends to us, we deduct the amount of these dividends from the carrying amount of our investment.
OCC adopted a new capital plan during the first quarter of 2015, which raised $150 million in equity capital from OCC's shareholders, including $60 million contributed by us. Pursuant to the terms of the capital plan, in exchange for the contributions of equity capital from its shareholders, OCC was required, subject to determination by its board of directors and compliance with legal requirements, to pay an annual dividend to its shareholders on a pro rata basis. The dividend was intended to be equal to the amount (i) of after-tax income of OCC, in excess of the amount required to maintain its target capital requirement and satisfy other capital requirements, and (ii) remaining after refunds to its clearing members equal to 50% of distributable earnings before tax. Related to that capital plan, from 2015-2017 we received a total of $31 million in dividends from OCC.
Subsequent to our $60 million investment, aggrieved parties petitioned the SEC to review its approval, by delegated authority, of the capital plan. As a result of such petition, the SEC's approval of the capital plan was automatically stayed and OCC halted further implementation of the capital plan pending further SEC action. In September 2015, the SEC lifted the stay. During the fourth quarter of 2015, the OCC capital plan was implemented.
In February 2016, after the SEC approved the rule change establishing the OCC capital plan, certain industry participants appealed that approval in the U.S. Court of Appeals. In August 2017, the Court of Appeals remanded the case to the SEC and on February 13, 2019, the SEC disapproved the OCC capital plan established in 2015. The OCC returned $44 million of our original $60 million contribution during the three months ended March 31, 2019 as a result of the disapproval. The remaining $16 million will be returned at a future date, when returning the funds will allow the OCC to maintain target capital requirements. 
Following the SEC disapproval, the OCC also announced they will not be providing a refund to clearing members or declaring a dividend to shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2018, which resulted in higher reported OCC 2018 net income than we had estimated. Therefore, during the three months ended March 31, 2019, we adjusted equity earnings in OCC by recording an additional $19 million earnings in other income to reflect our share of OCC's 2018 net income. In addition, during the three months ended March 31, 2019, we recognized $8 million of equity earnings as our share of OCC's estimated 2019 profits, which is also included in other income.

4.Revenue Recognition
Substantially all of our revenues are considered to be revenues from contracts with customers. The related accounts receivable balances are recorded in our balance sheets as customer accounts receivable. We do not have obligations for warranties, returns or refunds to customers, other than the rebates discussed below, which are settled each period and therefore do not result in variable consideration. We do not have significant revenue recognized from performance obligations that were satisfied in prior periods, and we do not have any transaction price allocated to unsatisfied performance obligations other than in our deferred revenue. Deferred revenue represents our contract liabilities related to our annual, original and other listings revenues as well as certain data services, clearing services and other revenues. Deferred revenue is the only significant contract asset or liability impacted by our adoption of ASC 606. See Note 6 for our discussion of deferred revenue balances, activity, and expected timing of recognition. As permitted by ASC 606,U.S. GAAP, we have elected not to provide disclosures about transaction price allocated to unsatisfied performance obligations if contract durations are less than one year, or if we are not required to estimate the transaction price. For all of our contracts with customers, except for listings and certain data and clearing services, our performance obligations are short-term in nature and there is no significant variable consideration. See the bullets below for further descriptions of our revenue contracts. In addition, we have elected the practical expedient of excluding sales taxes from transaction prices. We have assessed the costs incurred to obtain or fulfill a contract with a customer and determined them to be immaterial.
Certain judgments and estimates were used in the identification and timing of satisfaction of performance obligations and the related allocation of transaction price. We believe that these represent a faithful depiction of the transfer of services to our customers.
Our primary revenue contract classifications are described below. Although we discuss additional revenue details in our “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” theThese categories below best represent those that depictwith similar economic characteristics of the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of our revenues and cash flows.

Transaction and clearing, net- Transaction and clearing revenues represent fees charged for the performance obligations of derivatives trading and clearing, and from our cash trading, equity options, mortgage services and fixed income exchanges. The derivatives trading and clearing fees contain two performance obligations: (1) trade execution/clearing novation and (2) risk management of open interest. WeWhile we allocate the transaction price between these two performance obligations; however, both of theseobligations, since they generally occurare satisfied almost simultaneously andthere is no significant deferral results. The impact

of our adoption of ASC 606 on our performance obligations in our clearing business was minimal.revenue. Cash trading, equity options, mortgage services and fixed income fees contain one performance obligation related to trade execution which occurs instantaneously.instantaneously and the revenue is recorded at the point in time of the trade execution. Our transaction and clearing revenues are reported net of rebates, except for the NYSE transaction-based expenses. Rebates were $215 million and $220 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Transaction and clearing fees can be variable based on trade volume discounts used in the determination of rebates;rebates, however virtually all volume discounts are calculated and recorded on a monthly basis. Transaction and clearing fees, as well as any volume discounts rebated to our customers, are calculated and billed monthly in accordance with our published fee schedules. We make liquidity payments to certain customers in our NYSE businesses and recognize those payments as a cost of revenue. In addition, we pay NYSE regulatory

oversight fees to the SEC and collect equal amounts from our customers. These are also considered a cost of revenue, and both of these NYSE-related fees are included in transaction-based expenses. Transaction and clearing revenues and the related transaction-based expenses are all recognized in our Trading and Clearing segment.

Data services- Data service revenues represent the following:

Pricing and analytics services consist of an extensive set of independent continuous and end-of-day evaluated pricing services focused primarily on fixed income and international equityprovide global securities valuation services,evaluations, reference data, index servicesmarket indices, risk analytics, derivatives pricing and multi-asset classother information designed to meet our customers' portfolio andmanagement, trading, risk management, analytics.reporting and regulatory compliance needs.
Exchange data and feeds services provide real-time, historical and derived pricing data, order book and transaction information related to our trading venues as well as data from a broad array of third-party trading venues and news feeds.
Desktops and connectivity services provide the connection to our exchanges, clearing houses and data centers and comprise hosting, colocation, infrastructure, technology-based information platforms, workstations feeds and connectivity solutions through the ICE Global Network.
Exchange data services represent subscription fees for the provision of our market data that is created from activity in our Trading and Clearing segment.

The nature and timing of each contract type for the data services above are similar in nature. Data services revenues are primarily subscription-based, billed monthly, quarterly or annually in advance and recognized ratably over time as our performance obligations of data delivery are met consistently throughout the period. BecauseConsidering these contracts primarily consist of single performance obligations with fixed prices, there is no variable consideration and no need to allocate the transaction price. In certain of our data contracts, where third parties are involved, we arrange for the third party to transfer the services to our customers. Incustomers; in these arrangements we are acting as an agent and revenue is recorded net. All data services fees are recognizedincluded in our Data and Listings segment.

Listings - Listings revenues include original and annual listinglistings fees, and other corporate action fees. Under ASC 606, eachEach distinct listing fee is allocated to multiple performance obligations including original and incremental listing and investor relations services, as well as a customer’s material right to renew the option to list on our exchanges. In performing this allocation, the standalone selling price of the listing services is based on the original and annual listing fees and the standalone selling price of the investor relations services is based on its market value. All listings fees are billed upfront and the identified performance obligations are satisfied over time. Upon our adoption of the ASC 606 framework, the amount of revenueRevenue related to the investor relations performance obligation is recognized ratably over a two-year period, with the remaining revenue recognized ratably over time as customers continue to list on our exchanges, which is generally estimated to be over a period of up to nine years for NYSE and up to five years for NYSE Arca and NYSE American. Listings fees related to other corporate actions are considered contract modifications of our listing contracts and are recognized ratably over time as customers continue to list on our exchanges, which is generally estimated to be a period of six years for NYSE and three years for NYSE Arca and NYSE American. All listings fees are recognized in our Data and Listings segment.

Other revenuesOther revenues primarily include interest income on certain clearing margin deposits, regulatory penalties and fines, fees for use of our facilities, regulatory fees charged to member organizations of our U.S. securities exchanges, designated market maker service fees, exchange membership fees and agricultural grading and certification fees. Generally, fees for other revenues contain one performance obligation. Because these contracts primarily consist of single performance obligations with fixed prices, there is no variable consideration and no need to allocate the transaction price. Services for other revenues are primarily satisfied at a point in time. Therefore, there is no need to allocate the fee and no deferral results as we have no further obligation to the customer at that time. Other revenues are recognized in our Trading and Clearing segment.

The following table depicts the disaggregation of our revenue according to business line and segment (in millions). Segment totals here are consistent with the segment totals in Note 13:14:


Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Total ConsolidatedTrading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Total Consolidated
Nine months ended September 30, 2018     
Three months ended March 31, 2019     
Transaction and clearing, net$2,522
 $
 $2,522
$862
 $
 $862
Data services
 1,576
 1,576

 546
 546
Listings
 332
 332

 111
 111
Other revenues169
 
 169
64
 
 64
Total revenues2,691
 1,908
 4,599
926
 657
 1,583
Transaction-based expenses928
 
 928
313
 
 313
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$1,763
 $1,908
 $3,671
$613
 $657
 $1,270
          
Timing of Revenue Recognition          
Services transferred at a point in time$1,507
 $
 $1,507
$528
 $
 $528
Services transferred over time256
 1,908
 2,164
85
 657
 742
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$1,763
 $1,908
 $3,671
$613
 $657
 $1,270

 Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Total Consolidated
Nine months ended September 30, 2017     
  Transaction and clearing, net$2,373
 $
 $2,373
  Data services
 1,559
 1,559
  Listings
 322
 322
  Other revenues148
 
 148
Total revenues2,521
 1,881
 4,402
Transaction-based expenses910
 
 910
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$1,611
 $1,881
 $3,492
      
Timing of Revenue Recognition     
Services transferred at a point in time$1,373
 $
 $1,373
Services transferred over time238
 1,881
 2,119
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$1,611
 $1,881
 $3,492

 Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Total Consolidated
Three months ended September 30, 2018     
  Transaction and clearing, net$760
 $
 $760
  Data services
 530
 530
  Listings
 112
 112
  Other revenues61
 
 61
Total revenues821
 642
 1,463
Transaction-based expenses263
 
 263
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$558
 $642
 $1,200
      
Timing of Revenue Recognition     
Services transferred at a point in time$477
 $
 $477
Services transferred over time81
 642
 723
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$558
 $642
 $1,200

Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Total ConsolidatedTrading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Total Consolidated
Three months ended September 30, 2017     
Three months ended March 31, 2018     
Transaction and clearing, net$758
 $
 $758
$898
 $
 $898
Data services
 518
 518

 520
 520
Listings
 105
 105

 109
 109
Other revenues54
 
 54
53
 
 53
Total revenues812
 623
 1,435
951
 629
 1,580
Transaction-based expenses289
 
 289
355
 
 355
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$523
 $623
 $1,146
$596
 $629
 $1,225
          
Timing of Revenue Recognition          
Services transferred at a point in time$445
 $
 $445
$509
 $
 $509
Services transferred over time78
 623
 701
87
 629
 716
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$523
 $623
 $1,146
$596
 $629
 $1,225

The Trading and Clearing segment revenues above include $184$60 million and $172 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $56 million and $56$63 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively, for services transferred over time related to risk management of open interest performance obligations. A majority of these performance obligations are performed over a short period of time of one month or less.

5.Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

The following is a summary of the activity in the goodwill balance for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 (in millions):
Goodwill balance at December 31, 2017$12,216
Acquisitions721
Foreign currency translation(20)
Other activity, net17
Goodwill balance at September 30, 2018$12,934
Goodwill balance at December 31, 2018$13,085
Foreign currency translation11
Other activity, net2
Goodwill balance at March 31, 2019$13,098

The following is a summary of the activity in the other intangible assets balance for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 (in millions):
Other intangible assets balance at December 31, 2017$10,269
Other intangible assets balance at December 31, 2018$10,462
Acquisitions435
9
Foreign currency translation(25)12
Amortization of other intangible assets(215)(77)
Other activity, net(19)
Other intangible assets balance at September 30, 2018$10,445
Other intangible assets balance at March 31, 2019$10,406

We completed our acquisitions of BondPoint, CHX Holdings, Inc. and TMC Bonds during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 (Note 3). The foreignForeign currency translation adjustments in the tables above result from a portion of our goodwill and other intangible assets being held at our U.K., EU and Canadian subsidiaries, whose functional currencies are not the U.S. dollar. We did not recognize any impairment losses on goodwill or other intangible assets during the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018. The changeschange in other activity, net, in the tablesgoodwill table above primarily relaterelates to adjustments to the fair value of the net tangible assets and intangible assets relating to the acquisitions,acquisition of CHX Holdings, Inc., or CHX, with a corresponding adjustment to goodwill. Amortization of other intangible assets in the table above includes an impairment charge of $4 million recorded during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 on the remaining value of exchange registration intangible assets in connection with the July 2018 closure of ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada (Note 10). We did not recognize any other impairment losses on goodwill or other intangible assets during the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017.

6.Deferred Revenue

Our contract liabilities, or deferred revenue, represent consideration received that is yet to be recognized as revenue. Total deferred revenue was $339$565 million as of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, including $249$479 million in current deferred revenue and $90$86 million in non-current deferred revenue. The changes in our deferred revenue during the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 are as

follows (in millions), adjusted to reflect the adoption of ASC 606 as discussed in Note 2::
Annual Listings Revenues Original Listings Revenues Other Listings Revenues Data Services and Other Revenues TotalAnnual Listings Revenues Original Listings Revenues Other Listings Revenues Data Services and Other Revenues Total
Deferred revenue balance at December 31, 2017$
 $25
 $98
 $93
 $216
Deferred revenue balance at December 31, 2018$
 $25
 $100
 $92
 $217
Additions383
 17
 36
 291
 727
382
 3
 20
 139
 544
Amortization(288) (17) (27) (272) (604)(96) (6) (9) (85) (196)
Deferred revenue balance at September 30, 2018$95
 $25
 $107
 $112
 $339
Deferred revenue balance at March 31, 2019$286
 $22
 $111
 $146
 $565

The changes in our deferred revenue during the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2018 are as follows (in millions), adjusted to reflect the adoption of ASC 606 as discussed in Note 2::
 Annual Listings Revenues Original Listings Revenues Other Listings Revenues Data Services and Other Revenues Total
Deferred revenue balance at December 31, 2016$
 $23
 $83
 $92
 $198
Additions367
 17
 49
 307
 740
Amortization(276) (15) (31) (286) (608)
Divestitures
 
 
 (10) (10)
Deferred revenue balance at September 30, 2017$91
 $25
 $101
 $103
 $320
 Annual Listings Revenues Original Listings Revenues Other Listings Revenues Data Services and Other Revenues Total
Deferred revenue balance at December 31, 2017$
 $25
 $98
 $93
 $216
Additions380
 7
 15
 147
 549
Amortization(95) (6) (8) (96) (205)
Deferred revenue balance at March 31, 2018$285
 $26
 $105
 $144
 $560

Adjustments for divestituresIncluded in the table above resulted from our June 2017 divestiture of NYSE Governance Services and ouramortization recognized during the three months ended March 2017 divestiture of Interactive Data Managed Solutions, or IDMS, as well as our classification of Trayport31, 2019 is $45 million related to the deferred revenue balance as held for sale during the nine months ended September 30, 2017.of January 1, 2019. Included in the amortization recognized for the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2018 is $98$49 million related to the deferred revenue balance as of January 1, 2018. Included inAs of March 31, 2019, the amortization recognized for the nine months ended September 30, 2017, is $87 million related to theremaining deferred revenue balance as of January 1, 2017. As of September 30, 2018, we estimate that our deferredfor original listings revenue, other listings revenue and data services and other revenues will be recognized over the period of time we satisfy our performance obligations as described in the following years (in millions):
Note 4.  
 Annual Listings Revenues Original Listings Revenues Other Listings Revenues Data Services and Other Revenues Total
Remainder of 2018$95
 $8
 $8
 $68
 $179
2019
 15
 34
 39
 88
2020
 2
 27
 3
 32
2021
 
 19
 2
 21
2022
 
 13
 
 13
Thereafter
 
 6
 
 6
Total$95
 $25
 $107
 $112
 $339

7.Debt

Our total debt, including short-term and long-term debt, consisted of the following as of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and December 31, 20172018 (in millions):

As of 
September 30, 2018
 As of 
December 31, 2017
As of 
March 31, 2019
 As of 
December 31, 2018
Debt:      
Short-term debt:      
Commercial Paper$1,198
 $1,233
$1,005
 $951
2018 Senior Notes (2.50% senior unsecured notes due October 15, 2018)
 600
Total short-term debt1,198
 1,833
1,005
 951
Long-term debt:      
2020 Senior Notes (2.75% senior unsecured notes due December 1, 2020)1,245
 1,244
1,247
 1,246
2022 Senior Notes (2.35% senior unsecured notes due September 15, 2022)496
 495
496
 496
2023 Senior Notes (3.45% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2023)397
 
397
 397
2023 Senior Notes (4.00% senior unsecured notes due October 15, 2023)793
 791
793
 793
2025 Senior Notes (3.75% senior unsecured notes due December 1, 2025)1,243
 1,242
1,243
 1,243
2027 Senior Notes (3.10% senior unsecured notes due September 15, 2027)495
 495
496
 496
2028 Senior Notes (3.75% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2028)591
 
592
 591
2048 Senior Notes (4.25% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2048)1,228
 
1,228
 1,228
Total long-term debt6,488
 4,267
6,492
 6,490
Total debt$7,686
 $6,100
$7,497
 $7,441
Amended Credit Facility
We have a $3.4 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility, or the Credit Facility, pursuant towith a credit agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as primary administrative agent, issuing lender and swing-line lender, Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent, backup administrative agent and swing-line lender, and the lenders party thereto. On August 9, 2018, we agreed with the lenders to extend the final maturity date of the Credit Facility from August 18, 2022 to August 9, 2023 and make certain other changes, herein referred to as the Amended Credit Facility. We incurred debt issuance costs of $2 million relating to the Amended Credit Facility and these costs are included in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as other non-current assets and will be amortized over the life of the Amended Credit Facility.
2023. The Amended Credit Facility includes an option for us to propose an increase in the aggregate amount available for borrowing by up to $975 million, subject to the consent of the lenders funding the increase and certain other conditions. No amounts were outstanding under the Amended Credit Facility as of September 30, 2018. March 31, 2019.
As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, of the $3.4 billion that is currently available for borrowing under the Amended Credit Facility, $1.2$1.0 billion is required to back-stop the amount outstanding under our Commercial Paper Program and $105 million is required to support certain broker-dealer subsidiary commitments.
The amount required to back-stop the amounts outstanding under the Commercial Paper Program will fluctuate as we increase or decrease our commercial paper borrowings. The remaining $2.1$2.3 billion available under the Amended Credit Facility as of September 30, 2018 is available for us to use for working capital and general corporate purposes including, but not limited to, acting as a back-stop to future increases in the amounts outstanding under the Commercial Paper Program.
Commercial Paper Program
We have entered into a U.S. dollar commercial paper program, or the Commercial Paper Program. Our Commercial Paper ProgramIt is currently backed by the borrowing capacity available under the Amended Credit Facility, equal to the amount of the commercial paper that is issued and outstanding at any given point in time.as described above. The effective interest rate of commercial paper issuances does not materially differ from short-term interest rates (such as USD LIBOR). The fluctuation of these rates which fluctuate due to market conditions and as a result may impact our interest expense. During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, we repaid ahad net amountissuances of $35$54 millionunder the Commercial Paper Program, the proceeds of outstanding Commercial Paper.which were used for general corporate purposes.
Commercial paper notes of $1.2$1.0 billion with original maturities ranging from one to 8188 days were outstanding as of September 30, 2018 under our Commercial Paper Program. As of September 30, 2018, the weighted average interest rate on the $1.2 billion outstandingMarch 31, 2019 under our Commercial Paper Program, was 2.15%with a weighted average interest rate of 2.54% per annum withand a weighted average maturity of 2322 days.
Senior Notes
On August 13, 2018, we issued $2.25 billion in new aggregate senior notes. The senior notes comprise $400 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.45% senior notes due in 2023, or the 2023 Senior Notes, $600 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.75% senior notes due in 2028, or the 2028 Senior Notes, and $1.25 billion in aggregate principal amount of 4.25% senior notes due in 2048, or the 2048 Senior Notes, and together with the 2023 Senior Notes and the 2028 Senior Notes, the Newly-Issued Senior Notes. We

used the net proceeds from the offering of the Newly-Issued Senior Notes for general corporate purposes, including to fund the redemption of the $600 million aggregate principal amount of 2.50% Senior Notes due October 2018 and to refinance all of our issuances under our Commercial Paper Program that resulted from acquisitions and investments in the last nine months.
We incurred debt issuance costs of $21 million relating to the issuance of the Newly-Issued Senior Notes and they are presented in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as a deduction from the carrying amount of the related debt liability and will be amortized over their respective lives. The Newly-Issued Senior Notes contain affirmative and negative covenants, including, but not limited to, certain redemption rights, limitations on liens and indebtedness and limitations on certain mergers, sales, dispositions and lease-back transactions.

8.EquityShare-Based Compensation
We currently sponsor employee and director stock option, and restricted stock and employee stock purchase plans. Stock options and restricted stock are granted at the discretion of the Compensation Committee of theour Board of Directors. All stock options and restricted stock awards are granted at an exercise price equal to theDirectors based on estimated fair value of the common stock on the date of grant. The grant date fair value is based on the closing stock price on the date of grant. The fair value of the stock options and restricted stock on the date of grant is recognized as expense over the vesting period, net of forfeitures. The non-cash compensation expenses recognized in our consolidated statements of income for stock options, and restricted stock and under our employee stock purchase plan were $93 million and $102$29 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $32 million and $34 million forboth the three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and 2017, respectively.2018.
Stock Option Plans
The following is a summary of stock option activity for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018:March 31, 2019:

 Number of Options Weighted Average
Exercise Price per
Option
Outstanding at December 31, 20174,013,388
 $41.13
Granted534,576
 67.23
Exercised(604,345) 31.58
Forfeited(18,340) 55.07
Outstanding at September 30, 20183,925,279
 46.09
 
Number of Options
(in thousands)
 Weighted Average
Exercise Price per
Option
Outstanding at December 31, 20183,610
 $46.44
Granted493
 76.16
Exercised(172) 29.07
Outstanding at March 31, 20193,931
 50.93
 
Details of stock options outstanding as of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 are as follows:
Number of Options Weighted Average
Exercise Price
 Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(Years)
 Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(In millions)
Number of Options
(in thousands)
 Weighted Average
Exercise Price
 Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(Years)
 Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(In millions)
Vested or expected to vest3,925,279
 $46.09
 6.4 $113
3,931
 $50.93
 6.6 $99
Exercisable2,842,961
 $40.14
 5.6 $99
2,848
 $43.98
 5.7 $92

The total intrinsic value of stock options exercised was $25$8 million and $15 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $6 million and $8$9 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, there were $10$7 million in total unrecognized compensation costs related to stock options. These costs are expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.82.1 years as the stock options vest.
We use the Black-Scholes option pricing model for purposes of valuingto value our stock option awards. During the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, we used the weighted-average assumptions in the table below to compute the value of all options for shares of common stock granted to employees:

Nine Months Ended September 30,Three Months Ended March 31,
Assumptions:2018 20172019 2018
Risk-free interest rate2.67% 1.84%2.49% 2.66%
Expected life in years6.0
 5.0
5.9
 6.0
Expected volatility20% 21%20% 20%
Expected dividend yield1.43% 1.40%1.44% 1.43%
Estimated weighted-average fair value of options granted per share$14.08
 $10.50
$15.45
 $13.98
The risk-free interest rate is based on the zero-coupon U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the timedate of grant. The expected life computation is derived from historical exercise patterns and anticipated future exercise patterns. Expected volatilities arevolatility is based on historical volatility data of our stock.
Restricted Stock Plans
Our restricted shares have vesting conditions based on company performance linked to both short-term and long-term stockholder return as well as retention objectives. The grant date fair value of our restricted stock awards is based on the closing stock price on the date of grant.
In February 2018,2019, we reserved a maximum of 1,303,1511.1 million restricted shares for potential issuance as performance-based restricted shares to certain of our employees. The number of shares that will ultimately be granted under this award will be based on our actual financial performance as compared to financial performance targets set by our Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors for the year ending December 31, 2018,2019, as well as our 20182019 total stockholder return, or TSR, as compared to that of the S&P 500 Index. The maximum compensation expense to be recognized under these performance-based restricted shares is $84$82 million if the maximum financial performance target is met and all 1,303,1511.1 million shares vest. The compensation expense to be recognized under these performance-based restricted shares will be $42$41 million if the target financial performance is met, which would result in 651,5760.6 million shares vesting. We recognize expense on an accelerated basis over the three-year vesting period based on our quarterly assessment of the probable 20182019 actual financial performance as compared to the 20182019 financial performance targets. As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, we determined that it is probable that the financial performance level will be at target for 2018.2019. Based on this assessment, we recorded non-cash compensation expense of $18 million and $7$3 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 related to these shares and the remaining $24$38 million in non-cash compensation expense will be recorded on an accelerated basis over the remaining vesting period, including $5$19 million of which will be recorded over the remainder of 2018.2019.

The following is a summary of the non-vested restricted share activity for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018:March 31, 2019:  
Number of
Restricted
Stock Shares
 Weighted Average
Grant-Date Fair
Value per Share
Number of
Restricted
Stock Shares
(in thousands)
 Weighted Average
Grant-Date Fair
Value per Share
Non-vested at December 31, 20175,748,408 $52.78
Non-vested at December 31, 20184,470 $60.56
Granted1,873,785 67.70
1,569 76.19
Vested(2,751,637) 49.95
(1,991) 57.14
Forfeited(379,218) 57.97
(73) 64.06
Non-vested at September 30, 20184,491,338 60.30
Non-vested at March 31, 20193,975 68.38
Restricted stockThe shares granted in the table above include both0.9 million time-based and performance-based grants.the remainder are performance-based. Performance-based restricted shares have been presented to reflect the actual shares to be issued based on the achievement of past performance targets.targets, also considering the impact of any market conditions. Non-vested performance-based restricted shares granted are presented in the table above at the target number of restricted shares that would vest if the performance targets are met. As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, there were $148$188 million in total unrecognized compensation costs related to time-based and performance-based restricted stock. These costs are expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.41.8 years as the restricted stock vests. These unrecognized compensation costs assume that a target performance level will be met on the performance-based restricted shares granted in February 2018.2019. During the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, the total fair value of restricted stock vested under all restricted stock plans was $201$149 million and $199$182 million, respectively.
Employee Stock PurchaseBakkt Incentive Units
We own a majority of Bakkt Holdings, LLC, or Bakkt, and consolidate its operations. In February 2019, our Board approved the adoption of the Bakkt Equity Incentive Plan
In May 2018, our stockholders approved our Employee Stock Purchase Plan, or ESPP, under which we have reserved to issue various Bakkt equity unit awards. Under this plan, on February 28, 2019, Bakkt issued 86 million, 4 million and may sell up1 million of its preferred, common and phantom incentive units, respectively, to 25,000,000 sharescertain employees and a member of our common stock to employees.its Board. The ESPP grants participating employeesissued units are unvested at the right to acquire our stock in increments of 1% of eligible pay, with a maximum contribution of 25% of eligible pay,issuance date, are subject to applicable annual Internal Revenue Service,the vesting terms in the award agreements and upon vesting are converted into Bakkt equity or IRS, limitations. Undercash. With the assistance of third-party valuation experts and based on our ESPP, participating employees are limited to $25,000assumptions as of common stock annually, and a maximumthe issuance date, we estimate that approximately $41 million of 1,250 shares of common stock each offering period. Therecompensation expense will be two offering periods each year, which will run from January 1st (or the first trading day thereafter) through June 30th (or the last trading day prior to such date) and from July 1st (or the first trading day thereafter) through December 31st (or the last trading day prior to such date). The first offeringrecognized over an eight-year period began on July 2, 2018 and will run through December 31, 2018. The purchase price per share of common stock will be 85% of the lesser of the fairassociated with these awards.

market value of the stock on the first or the last trading day of each offering period, and the price on the first day of the current trading period was $73.73 per share. We recorded compensation expenses of $2 million during the three months ended September 30, 2018 related to the 15% discount that is given to our participating employees.
9.Equity
Stock Repurchase Program
In September 2017, our Board of Directors approved an aggregate of $1.2 billion for future repurchases of our common stock with no fixed expiration date that became effective on January 1, 2018. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we repurchased 14,394,028 shares of our outstanding common stock at a cost of $1.1 billion, excluding shares withheld upon vesting of equity awards. The shares repurchased are held in treasury stock and were completed on the open market and under our Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The timing and extent of future repurchases, if any, will depend upon many conditions. Our management periodically reviews whether to be active in repurchasing our stock. In making a determination regarding any stock repurchases, we consider multiple factors. The factors may include: overall stock market conditions, our common stock price movements, the remaining amount authorized for repurchases by our Board of Directors, the potential impact of a stock repurchase program on our corporate debt ratings, our expected free cash flow and working capital needs, our current and future planned strategic growth initiatives, and other potential uses of our cash and capital resources.
As of September 30, 2018, up to $141 million remains from the board authorization for repurchases of our common stock. In September 2018, our Board of Directors approved an aggregate of $2.0 billion for future repurchases of our common stock with no fixed expiration date that becomesbecame effective January 1, 2019. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we repurchased 4.6 million shares of our outstanding common stock at a cost of $340 million under our Rule 10b5-1 trading plan and 1.3 million shares at a cost of $100 million on the open market. As of March 31, 2019, up to $1.6 billion remains from the board authorization for repurchases of our common stock. We expect funding for any stockto fund repurchases to come from our operating cash flow or borrowings under our debt facilities or our Commercial Paper Program. Repurchases may be made from time to time on the open market, through established trading plans, in privately-negotiated transactions or otherwise, in accordance with all applicable securities laws, rules and regulations. We have entered into a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, as authorized by our Board, of Directors, to govern some or all of the repurchases of our shares of common stock. We may discontinue the stock repurchases at any time and may amend or terminate the Rule 10b5-1 trading plan at any time. The approval of our Board of Directors for the share repurchases does not obligate us to acquire any particular amount of our common stock. In addition, our Board of Directors may increase or decrease the amount available for repurchases from time to time.
Dividends
During the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, we declared and 2017, we paid cash dividends per share of $0.72$0.275 and $0.60,$0.24, respectively, for an aggregate payout of $417$157 million and $358$140 million, respectively. The declaration of dividends is subject to the discretion of our Board, of Directors, and may be affected by various factors, including our future earnings, financial condition, capital requirements, levels of indebtedness, credit ratings and other considerations which our Board of Directors deem relevant. Our Board of Directors has adopted a quarterly dividend declaration policy providing that the declaration of any dividends will be determined quarterly by the Board of Directors or theits Audit Committee, of the Board of Directors taking into account such factors as our evolving business model, prevailing business conditions and our financial results and capital requirements, without a predetermined annual net income payout ratio.

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
The following tables present changes in the accumulated balances for each component of other comprehensive income (loss):
  Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) by Component
         
 
Balance, as of December 31, 2018 $(227) $2
 $(90) $(315)
Other comprehensive income (loss) 26
 (1) 
 25
Income tax benefit (expense) 
 
 
 
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss) 26

(1)


25
Balance, as of March 31, 2019 $(201)
$1

$(90)
$(290)
  Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) by Component
         
 
Balance, as of December 31, 2017 $(136) $2
 $(89) $(223)
Other comprehensive income 34
 
 
 34
Income tax benefit (expense) (1) 
 
 (1)
Net current period other comprehensive income 33
 
 
 33
Balance, as of March 31, 2018 $(103) $2
 $(89) $(190)

9.Income Taxes
10.Income Taxes
Our effective tax rate was 21% and 29% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and 16% and 33%23% for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. The effective tax ratesrate for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018 areMarch 31, 2019 was lower than the effective tax ratesrate for the comparable periodsperiod in 20172018 primarily due to the enactmentreduced U.S. federal and state income taxes on our non-U.S. income under certain international tax provisions enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or TCJA, on December 22, 2017, which reduced the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, effective January 1, 2018. In addition, for the three months ended September 30, 2018, the effective tax rate was further reduced due toand deferred tax benefits associated with therelated to state apportionment changes. The reduced U.S. tax rate reduction resulting from changes in estimates, along with additional tax benefits associated with our sale of Trayport in 2017.
We recorded our income tax provision based on the TCJA as enacted as of September 30, 2018. We have also made reasonable estimates of the TCJA’s impact onfederal and state income tax. Our estimatestaxes are based on the best available information asa result of September 30, 2018clarifications provided by subsequent federal and our interpretation of the TCJA and related state tax implications, as currently enacted. Our estimates do not include any potential federallegislative or state administrative and/or legislative adjustmentsguidance to certainthose international provisions of the TCJA and related state provisions.
SAB 118 provides guidance
11.Clearing Operations
We operate six clearing houses, each of which acts as a central counterparty that becomes the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer for companies that have not completed their accountingits clearing members. Through this central counterparty function, the clearing houses provide financial security for income tax effectseach transaction for the duration of the TCJA in the period of enactment, allowing for a measurement period of up to one year after the enactment date to finalize the recording of the related tax impacts. As of September 30, 2018, we have not completed our accounting for the tax effects of the enactment of the TCJA. We will continue to analyze the TCJA in order to finalize its enactment-date effects within the measurement period.position by limiting counterparty credit risk.
As of September 30, 2018, we have adopted an accounting policy regarding the treatment of taxes due on future inclusion of non-U.S. income in U.S. taxable income under the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income provisions as a current period expense when incurred. Therefore, no deferred tax related to these provisions has been recorded as of September 30, 2018.


10.Clearing Organizations
We operate regulated CCPs for the settlement and clearance of derivative contracts. TheOur clearing houses include ICE Clear Europe, ICE Clear Credit, ICE Clear U.S., ICE Clear Netherlands, ICE Clear Singaporeare responsible for providing clearing services to each of our futures exchanges, and ICE NGX (referredin some cases outside of our execution venues, and are as follows, referred to herein collectively as the “ICE"the ICE Clearing Houses”).Houses":
We previously operated ICE Clear Canada, which performed the clearing and settlement for all futures and options contracts traded through ICE Futures Canada. On July 30, 2018, we transitioned the trading and clearing
        ICE Portion of Guaranty Fund Contribution
        (in millions)
Clearing House Products Cleared Exchange where Executed Location As of
March 31, 2019
 As of
December 31, 2018
ICE Clear Europe Energy, agricultural, interest rates and equity index futures and options contracts and OTC European CDS instruments ICE Futures Europe, ICE Futures U.S., ICE Endex and third-party venues U.K. $233 $206
ICE Clear US Agricultural, metals, FX and equity index futures and options contracts ICE Futures U.S. U.S. 68
 61
ICE Clear Credit North American, European, Asian-Pacific and Emerging Market CDS instruments Creditex and third-party venues U.S. 50
 50
ICE Clear Netherlands Derivatives on equities and equity indices traded on regulated markets ICE Endex The Netherlands 2
 2
ICE Clear Singapore Energy, metals and financial futures products ICE Futures Singapore Singapore 1
 1
ICE NGX Physical North American natural gas, electricity and oil futures ICE NGX Canada N/A
 N/A
Total       $354 $320

As of our canola contracts from ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada to ICE Futures U.S. and ICE Clear U.S., respectively. Following the transition, ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada ceased operations.
ICE Clear Europe performs the clearing and settlement for all futures and options contracts traded through ICE Futures Europe and ICE Endex, for energy futures and options contracts trading through ICE Futures U.S., and for CDS contracts submitted for clearing in Europe.
ICE Clear Credit performs the clearing and settlement for CDS contracts submitted for clearing in North America.
ICE Clear U.S. performs the clearing and settlement of agricultural, metals, currencies and financial futures and options contracts traded through ICE Futures U.S.
ICE Clear Netherlands has received regulatory approval to offer clearing of Dutch equity options traded through ICE Endex.
ICE Clear Singapore performs the clearing and settlement for all futures and options contracts traded through ICE Futures Singapore.
March 31, 2019, ICE NGX performs clearingmaintains a guaranty fund utilizing a $100 million letter of credit and settlement for physical North American natural gas, electricity and oil markets.a default insurance policy discussed below.
Original & Variation Margin
Each of the ICE Clearing Houses requiresgenerally require all clearing members or participants to maintaindeposit collateral in cash on deposit or pledge certain assets, which may include government obligations, non-government obligations, letters of credit or gold to guaranty performance of the clearing members’ or participants’ open positions. Such amounts in totalpledged assets. The collateral deposits are known as “original margin.” TheIn addition, the ICE Clearing Houses may make intraday original margin calls in circumstances where market conditions require additional protection. The daily profits and losses fromto and tofrom the ICE Clearing Houses due to the marking-to-market of open contracts areis known as “variation margin.” With the exception of ICE NGX’s physical natural gas and physical power products discussed separately below, the ICE Clearing Houses mark all outstanding contracts to market, and therefore pay and collect variation margin, at least once dailydaily.
The amounts that the clearing members and participants are required to maintain are determined by proprietary risk models established by each ICE Clearing House and reviewed by the relevant regulators, independent model validators, risk committees and the boards of directors of the respective ICE Clearing House. The amounts required may fluctuate over time. Each of the ICE Clearing Houses is a separate legal entity and is not subject to the liabilities of the others, or the obligations of the members of the other ICE Clearing Houses.
Should a particular clearing member or participant fail to deposit its original margin or fail to make a variation margin payment, when and as required, the relevant ICE Clearing House may liquidate or hedge its open positions and use their original margin and guaranty fund deposits to pay any amount owed. In the event that the defaulting clearing member's deposits are not sufficient to pay the amount owed in full, the ICE Clearing Houses will first use their respective contributions to the guaranty fund, often referred to as Skin In The Game, or SITG, to pay any remaining amount owed. In the event that the SITG is not sufficient, the ICE Clearing Houses may utilize the respective guaranty fund deposits, or collect additional funds from their respective non-defaulting clearing members on a pro-rata basis, to pay any remaining amount owed.
As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the ICE Clearing Houses have received or have been pledged $125.9 billion and $121.4 billion, respectively, in cash and non-cash collateral in original margin and guaranty fund deposits to cover price movements of underlying contracts for both periods.
Guaranty Funds & ICE Contribution
As described above, mechanisms have been created, called guaranty funds, to provide partial protection in the event of a clearing member default. With the exception of ICE NGX, each of the ICE Clearing Houses require that each clearing member make deposits into a guaranty fund.
In addition, we have contributed our own capital which could be used if a defaulting clearing member’s original margin and guaranty fund deposits are insufficient. Such amounts are recorded as long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents in our balance sheets and included in the table above.
In January 2019, we increased our contribution to ICE Clear Europe’s guaranty fund by $27 million and in some cases, multiple times throughoutMarch 2019, we increased our ICE Clear US guaranty fund contribution by $7 million.

Cash and Cash Equivalent Deposits
We have recorded cash and cash equivalent margin deposits and amounts due in our balance sheets as current assets with corresponding current liabilities to the day.clearing members. As of March 31, 2019, our cash and cash equivalent margin deposits are as follows (in millions):
 
ICE Clear Europe (1)
 ICE Clear
Credit
 ICE Clear US ICE NGX Other ICE Clearing Houses Total
Original margin$27,787
 $21,487
 $7,400
 $
 $4
 $56,678
Unsettled variation margin, net
 
 
 290
 
 290
Guaranty fund4,123
 2,335
 458
 
 6
 6,922
Delivery contracts receivable/payable, net
 
 
 674
 
 674
Total$31,910
 $23,822
 $7,858
 $964
 $10
 $64,564
As of December 31, 2018, our cash and cash equivalent deposits, are as follows (in millions):
 
ICE Clear Europe (2)
 ICE Clear
Credit
 ICE Clear US ICE NGX Other ICE Clearing Houses Total
Original margin$27,597
 $22,770
 $6,260
 $
 $3
 $56,630
Unsettled variation margin, net
 
 
 417
 
 417
Guaranty fund3,267
 2,456
 460
 
 5
 6,188
Delivery contracts receivable/payable, net
 
 
 720
 
 720
Total$30,864
 $25,226
 $6,720
 $1,137
 $8
 $63,955
(1) $27.5 billion and $4.4 billion is related to futures/options and CDS, respectively.
(2) $25.8 billion and $5.1 billion is related to futures/options and CDS, respectively.

Our cash and cash equivalent margin and guaranty fund deposits are maintained in accounts with national banks and reputable financial institutions or secured through direct investments, primarily in U.S. Treasury securities with original maturities of less than three months, or reverse repurchase agreements with primarily overnight maturities. Details of our cash and cash equivalent deposits are as follows (in millions):
Clearing House Investment Type  As of
March 31, 2019
  As of
December 31, 2018
ICE Clear Europe 
National Bank Account (1)
  $3,639
  $8,647
ICE Clear Europe Reverse repo  24,515
  18,097
ICE Clear Europe 
Sovereign Debt

  3,737
  4,035
ICE Clear Europe Demand deposits  19
  85
ICE Clear Credit 
National Bank Account (2)
  18,735
  19,484
ICE Clear Credit Reverse repo  2,189
  1,935
ICE Clear Credit Demand deposits  2,898
  3,807
ICE Clear US Reverse repo  5,269
  4,380
ICE Clear US 
U.S. Treasuries

  2,589
  2,340
Other ICE Clearing Houses Demand deposits  10
  8
ICE NGX Unsettled Variation Margin and Delivery Contracts Receivable/Payable  964
  1,137
Total    $64,564
  $63,955
(1) As of March 31, 2019, ICE Clear Europe held €2.7 billion ($3.0 billion based on the euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate of 1.1224 as of March 31, 2019) at De Nederlandsche Bank, or DNB, and £500 million ($652 million based on the pound sterling/U.S. dollar exchange rate of 1.3046 as of March 31, 2019) at the Bank of England, or BOE. As of December 31, 2018, ICE Clear Europe held €7.0 billion ($8.0 billion based on the euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate of 1.1466 as of December 31, 2018) at DNB and £500 million ($638 million based on the pound sterling/U.S. dollar exchange rate of 1.2756 as of December 31, 2018) at the BOE.

(2) ICE Clear Credit is a systemically important financial market utility, or SIFMU, as designated by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and holds its U.S. dollar cash margin in cash accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Other Deposits
In addition to the cash deposits above, the ICE Clearing Houses have also received other assets from clearing members, which include government obligations, and may include other non-cash collateral such as letters of credit or gold to mitigate credit risk. For certain deposits, we may impose discount or “haircut” rates to ensure adequate collateral if market values fluctuate. The value-related risks and rewards of these assets remain with the clearing members. Any gain or loss accrues to the clearing member. The ICE NGX’s physical natural gasClearing Houses do not rehypothecate or re-pledge these assets. These pledged assets are not reflected in our balance sheets, and power products,are as follows:
 As of March 31, 2019
 
ICE Clear 
Europe
 ICE Clear
Credit
 ICE Clear US ICE NGX  Total
Original margin:          
Government securities at face value$31,479
 $14,231
 $11,561
 $
  $57,271
Letters of credit
 
 
 2,486
  2,486
ICE NGX cash deposits
 
 
 482
  482
Total$31,479
 $14,231
 $11,561
 $2,968
  $60,239
Guaranty fund:          
Government securities at face value$557
 $279
 $275
 $
  $1,111
 As of December 31, 2018
 
ICE Clear 
Europe
 ICE Clear
Credit
 ICE Clear US ICE NGX  Total
Original margin:          
Government securities at face value$29,887
 $12,990
 $10,208
 $
  $53,085
Letters of credit
 
 
 2,556
  2,556
ICE NGX cash deposits
 
 
 605
  605
Total$29,887
 $12,990
 $10,208
 $3,161
  $56,246
Guaranty fund:          
Government securities at face value$654
 $256
 $264
 $
  $1,174
ICE NGX
ICE NGX is the central counterparty to participants on opposite sides of its physically-settled contracts, and the balance related to delivered but unpaid contracts is recorded as a delivery contract net receivable, with an offsetting delivery contract net payable in our balance sheets. Unsettled variation margin equal to the fair value of open contracts is recorded as of each balance sheet date. ICE NGX marks all outstanding contracts to market daily, but only collects variation margin when a clearing member's or participant’s open position falls outside a specified percentage of its pledged collateral. Marking-to-market allows the ICE Clearing Houses to identify any clearing members or participants that may be unable to satisfy the financial obligations resulting from changes in the prices of their open contracts before those financial obligations become exceptionally large and jeopardize the ability of the ICE Clearing Houses to ensure financial performance of clearing members’ or participants’ open positions.
With the exception of ICE NGX eachrequires participants to maintain cash or letters of the ICE Clearing Houses requires that each clearing member make deposits into a fund knowncredit to serve as a “guaranty fund,” which is maintained by the relevant ICE Clearing House. These amounts serve to secure the obligations of a clearing member to the ICE Clearing House to which it has made the guaranty fund deposit and may be used to cover losses sustained by the respective ICE Clearing Housecollateral in the event of a default of a clearing member. Because it is not our policy to guaranty credit facilities of our clearing houses which maintain contingent liquidity facilities secured by high quality liquid assets, we eliminated a $100 million guaranty that we had previously provideddefault. ICE NGX maintains the following accounts with a third-party Canadian chartered bank which are available in February 2018. the event of physical settlement shortfalls, subject to certain conditions:
Account Type 
As of March 31, 2019
(In C$ millions)
 
As of March 31, 2019
(In $USD millions)
Daylight liquidity facility C$300 $225
Overdraft facility 20
 15
Total C$320 $240
As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, ICE NGX maintains a guaranty fund utilizing a $100 million letter of credit that has been entered into with a major Canadian chartered bank and backed by a default insurance policy underwritten by Export Development Corporation, or EDC, a Canadian government agency. In the event of a participant default, where a participant’s collateral becomes depleted, the remaining shortfall would be covered by a draw down on the letter of credit following which ICE NGX would pay the first $15 million in losses per its deductible and recover additional losses under the insurance policy of up to $100 million.
We have contributed cash of $150 million, $50 million and $50 million to the guaranty funds of
Clearing House Exposure
Each ICE Clear Europe, ICE Clear Credit and ICE Clear U.S., respectively, as of September 30, 2018, and such amounts are atClearing House bears financial counterparty credit risk and could be used inprovides a central counterparty guarantee, or performance guarantee, to its clearing members or participants. To reduce their exposure, the event of a clearing member default where the amount of the defaulting clearing member’s original margin and guaranty fund deposits are insufficient. We have also contributed $3 million in cash in total to the guaranty funds of ICE Clear Netherlands and ICE Clear Singapore. The $253 million combined contributions to the guaranty funds as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 are included in long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
In addition, beginning in March 2018, certain of our exchanges are now required to make similar contributions to those made by the clearing houses to be utilized pro rata along with the clearing contributions in the event of the default of any clearing member. The contribution is calculated per exchange based on average guaranty fund contributions, subject to a minimum contribution of $10 million for each exchange. As of September 30, 2018, ICE Futures Europe, ICE Futures U.S. and our ICE

Endex exchanges have contributed a combined $67 million in cash to the guaranty funds of ICE Clear Europe and ICE Clear U.S. These contributions are also included in long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.
The ICE Clearing Houses seek to reduce their exposure throughhave a risk management program that includeswith both initial and ongoing financial standards for clearing member and participant admission and continued membership standards. Excluding the effects of original and variation margin and collateral requirements, and mandatory deposits to the guaranty fund. The amounts that the clearing members and participants are required to maintain in the original margin, guaranty fund and collateral accounts are determined by standardized parameters established by the risk management department of the respective ICE Clearing House and reviewed by the risk committees and the boards of directors of each ofrequirements, the ICE Clearing Houses and may fluctuate over time. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the ICE Clearing Houses have received or have been pledged $107.9Houses’ maximum estimated exposure for this guarantee is $104.6 billion and $92.6 billion, respectively, in cash and non-cash collateral in original margin and guaranty fund deposits to cover price movements of underlying contracts for both periods. With the exception of ICE NGX, the ICE Clearing Houses also have the ability to collect additional funds from their clearing members to cover a defaulting member’s remaining obligations up to the limits established under the respective rules of each ICE Clearing House.
Should a particular clearing member or participant fail to deposit its original margin, provide its collateral, or fail to make a variation margin payment, when and as required, the relevant ICE Clearing House may liquidate or hedge the clearing member’s or participant’s open positions and use their original margin and guaranty fund deposits to make up any amount owed. In the event that those deposits are not sufficient to pay the amount owed in full, the ICE Clearing Houses may utilize the respective guaranty fund deposits of their respective clearing members on a pro-rata basis for that purpose.
ICE NGX administers the physical delivery of energy trading contracts. It has an equal and offsetting claim to and from the respective participants on opposite sides of the physically settled contract. The balance related to delivered but unpaid contracts is reflected as a delivery contract net receivable with an offsetting delivery contract net payable in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. ICE NGX also records unsettled variation margin equal to the fair value of open energy trading contracts as of March 31, 2019, which represents the balance sheet date. Fairmaximum estimated value is determined based on the difference between the trade price when the contract was entered into and the settlement price. There is no impact to the consolidated statements of income for either delivery contracts receivable/payable or unsettled variation margin, as an equivalent amount is recognized as both an asset and a liability.
As of September 30, 2018, our cash and cash equivalents margin deposits, unsettled variation margin, guaranty fund and delivery contracts receivable/payable, net, are as follows for the ICE Clearing Houses (in millions):
 
ICE Clear 
Europe
 ICE Clear
Credit
 ICE Clear U.S. ICE NGX Other ICE Clearing Houses Total
Original margin$26,452
 $19,415
 $6,020
 $
 $4
 $51,891
Unsettled variation margin, net
 
 
 250
 
 250
Guaranty fund3,424
 2,343
 454
 
 6
 6,227
Delivery contracts receivable/payable, net
 
 
 396
 
 396
Total$29,876
 $21,758
 $6,474
 $646
 $10
 $58,764
As of December 31, 2017, our cash margin deposits, unsettled variation margin, guaranty fund and delivery contracts receivable/payable, net, were as follows for the ICE Clearing Houses (in millions):
 
ICE Clear 
Europe
 ICE Clear
Credit
 ICE Clear U.S. ICE NGX Other ICE Clearing Houses Total
Original margin$19,792
 $20,703
 $3,898
 $
 $126
 $44,519
Unsettled variation margin, net
 
 
 227
 1
 228
Guaranty fund3,037
 2,607
 299
 
 23
 5,966
Delivery contracts receivable/payable, net
 
 
 509
 
 509
Total$22,829
 $23,310
 $4,197
 $736
 $150
 $51,222

We have recorded these cash and cash equivalent deposits and amounts due in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as current assets with corresponding current liabilities to the clearing members of the relevant ICE Clearing House. All cash, securities and amounts due are available only to meet the financial obligations of that clearing member to the relevant ICE Clearing House. Each of the ICE Clearing Houses are separate legal entities and are not subject to the liabilities of the other ICE Clearing Houses or the obligations of the members of the other ICE Clearing Houses. The amount of these cash deposits may

fluctuate due to the types of margin collateral choices available to clearing members and the change in the amount of deposits required. As a result, these assets and corresponding liabilities may vary significantly over time.
Of the cash held by the ICE Clearing Houses as of September 30, 2018, $34.8 billion is secureda hypothetical one-day movement in reverse repurchase agreements or direct investmentpricing of the underlying unsettled contracts. This value was determined using proprietary risk management software that simulates gains and losses based on historical market prices, volatility and other factors present at that point in government securities. We engage in tri-party reverse repurchase agreements with large, highly-rated financial institutions with primarily overnight maturities. ICE Clear Credit, as a systemically important financialtime for those particular unsettled contracts. Future actual market utility, or SIFMU, as designated by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, or FSOC, held $16.5 billion of its U.S. dollar cashprice volatility could result in the guaranty fund and in original margin in cash accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as of September 30, 2018. ICE Clear Europe maintains a euro-denominated account at the De Nederlandsche Bank, or DNB, the central bank of the Netherlands, as well as a pounds sterling-denominated account at the Bank of England, or BOE, the central bank of the U.K. These accounts provide the flexibility for ICE Clear Europe to place euro- and pounds sterling-denominated cash margin securely at national banks, in particular during periods when liquidity in the euro and pounds sterling repo markets may temporarily become contracted. As of September 30, 2018, ICE Clear Europe held €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion based on the euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate of 1.1604 as of September 30, 2018) at DNB, and £500 million ($652 million based on the pound sterling/U.S. dollar exchange rate of 1.3030 as of September 30, 2018) at the BOE. The remaining cash deposits at the ICE Clearing Houses are held in demand deposit accounts at large, highly-rated financial institutions and are directly invested primarily in U.S. Treasury securities with original maturities of lessexposure being significantly different than three months, plus certain U.S. Treasury securities that extend beyond 12 months which we consider to be Level 1 securities. The carrying value of these securities with original maturities of less than three months approximates their fair value due to the short-term nature of the instruments and repurchase agreements.
In addition to the cash deposits for original margin and the guaranty fund, the ICE Clearing Houses have also received other assets from clearing members, which include government obligations, and may include other non-cash collateral such as certain agency and corporate debt, letters of credit or gold to mitigate credit risk. These assets are not reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as the risks and rewards of these assets remain with the clearing members unless the ICE Clearing Houses have sold or re-pledged the assets or in the event of a clearing member default, where the clearing member is no longer entitled to redeem the assets. Any income, gain or loss accrues to the clearing member. For certain non-cash deposits, the ICE Clearing Houses may impose discount or “haircut” rates to ensure adequate collateral levels to account for fluctuations in the market value of these deposits.
ICE NGX requires participants to maintain cash or letters of credit to serve as collateral in the event of a participant default. The cash is maintained in a segregated bank account that is subject to a collateral agreement between the bank and ICE NGX. Per the agreement, ICE NGX serves in the capacity of a trustee. The cash is held by ICE NGX in trust for and on behalf of the participant; however, the cash remains the property of the participant and may only be accessed by ICE NGX if there is evidence of default. The rules governing when the cash can be accessed by ICE NGX are listed in the Contracting Party Agreement, a standardized agreement signed by each participant that also allows for netting of positive and negative exposure. Since the cash is held in trust and remains the property of the participant, it is not included in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the assets pledged by the clearing members as original margin, which includes cash deposits held in trust by ICE NGX, and non-cash collateral guaranty fund deposits for each of the ICE Clearing Houses not included in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets are detailed below (in millions):
 As of September 30, 2018
 
ICE Clear 
Europe
 ICE Clear
Credit
 ICE Clear U.S. ICE NGX Other ICE Clearing Houses Total
Original margin:           
Government securities at face value$23,797
 $12,415
 $9,997
 $
 $
 $46,209
Letters of credit
 
 
 1,637
 
 1,637
ICE NGX cash deposits
 
 
 299
 
 299
Total$23,797
 $12,415
 $9,997
 $1,936
 $
 $48,145
Guaranty fund:           
Government securities at face value$605
 $175
 $259
 $
 $
 $1,039

 As of December 31, 2017
 
ICE Clear 
Europe
 ICE Clear
Credit
 ICE Clear U.S. ICE NGX Other ICE Clearing Houses Total
Original margin:           
Government securities at face value$23,496
 $5,699
 $9,581
 $
 $18
 $38,794
Letters of credit
 
 
 1,663
 
 1,663
ICE NGX cash deposits
 
 
 233
 
 233
Total$23,496
 $5,699
 $9,581
 $1,896
 $18
 $40,690
Guaranty fund:           
Government securities at face value$323
 $176
 $169
 $
 $2
 $670
this amount.

11.12. Legal Proceedings
We are subject to legal proceedings, claims and investigations that arise in the ordinary course of our business. These include the matters described in Part I, Item 3 “Legal Proceedings” and Note 1415 to the consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8 of our 20172018 Form 10-K. We establish accruals for those matters in circumstances when a loss contingency is considered probable and the related amount is reasonably estimable. Any such accruals may be adjusted as circumstances change. Assessments of losses are inherently subjective and involve unpredictable factors. We do not believe that the resolution of these legal matters, including the matters described below, will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, or liquidity. It is possible, however, that future results of operations for any particular quarterly or annual period could be materially and adversely affected by any developments relating to the legal proceedings, claims and investigations.
DuringLIBOR Litigation
On January 15, 2019 and January 31, 2019, two virtually identical purported class action complaints were filed by, respectively, Putnam Bank, a savings bank based in Putnam, Connecticut, and two municipal pension funds affiliated with the year ended December 31, 2017, we recorded an aggregateCity of $14 millionLivonia, Michigan in expense accruals relating to SEC investigationsthe Southern District against ICE and inquiries.several of its subsidiaries, including ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (“IBA”) (the “ICE Defendants”), as well as 18 multinational banks and various of their respective subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Panel Bank Defendants”). On March 6, 2018, NYSE4, 2019, a virtually identical complaint was filed on behalf of four retirement and benefit funds affiliated exchanges reached a settlement with the SECHawaii Sheet Metal Workers Union. IBA is the administrator for various regulated benchmarks, including the ICE LIBOR benchmark that is calculated daily based upon the submissions from a reference panel (which includes the Panel Bank Defendants). 
The plaintiffs seek to litigate on behalf of a purported class of all U.S.-based persons or entities who transacted with a Panel Bank Defendant by receiving a payment on an interest rate indexed to a LIBOR-benchmarked rate during the various matters under investigationperiod February 1, 2014 to the present. The plaintiffs allege that the ICE Defendants and agreedPanel Bank Defendants engaged in a conspiracy to pay a $14 million civil monetary penalty, togetherset the LIBOR benchmark at artificially low levels, with certain non-monetary relief. For further details aboutan alleged purpose and effect of depressing payments by the settlement and underlying matters that were under investigation, please referPanel Bank Defendants to Order Instituting Administrative and Cease-and-Desist Proceedings Pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act of 1933, Sections 19(h)(1) and 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Making Findings, and Imposing Remedial Sanctions and a Cease-and-Desist Order, Administrative Proceeding File No. 3-18388 (In the Matter of New York Stock Exchange LLC, NYSE American LLC, and NYSE Arca, Inc.) entered into on March 6, 2018. 
Our 2017 Form 10-K included a descriptionmembers of the purported class action lawsuit against twoclass. 
The complaints assert claims for violations of our subsidiary NYSE exchanges,the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts and for unjust enrichment under common law, and seek unspecified treble damages and other U.S. exchanges, by the City of Providence, Rhode Island and other plaintiffs. As reported in our 2017 Form 10-K, the defendant exchanges filed a petition for rehearing and/or rehearing en banc of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s, or Second Circuit, December 2017 decision vacating the dismissal of this case and on March 13, 2018, the Second Circuit denied our petition. On August 10, 2018, the defendant exchanges filed a petition in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of the Second Circuit’s December 2017 decision. On October 9, 2018, the Supreme Court denied the petition. Additionally, the parties are awaiting a decision on a motionrelief. ICE intends to dismiss filed by the defendant exchanges in the district court seeking dismissal on grounds other than those considered by the Second Circuit in its December 2017 decision.vigorously defend these matters.

12.13. Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Our financial instruments consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents,certain short-term and long-term restricted cashassets and cash equivalents, short-term investments,liabilities, customer accounts receivable, margin deposits and guaranty funds, equity investments, and short-term and long-term debt and certain other short-term assets and liabilities. debt.
The fair value of our financial instruments areis measured based on a three-level hierarchy:
Level 1 inputs — quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.
Level 2 inputs — observable inputs other than Level 1 inputs such as quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets or inputs other than quoted prices that are directly observable.
Level 3 inputs — unobservable inputs supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

We use Level 1 inputs to determine fair value. The Level 1 assets consist of U.S. Treasury and other foreign government securities, and investments in publicly-traded mutual funds held for the purpose of providing future payments of the supplemental executive retirement and the supplemental executive savings plans.
Financial assets and liabilities recorded or disclosed at fair value in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and December 31, 20172018 are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the asset or liability’s fair value measurement. Financial instruments measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 are as follows (in millions):
 As of September 30, 2018 As of December 31, 2017
 Level 1 Level 2 and 3 Total Level 1 Level 2 and 3 Total
Assets at fair value:           
U.S. Treasury and other foreign government securities$902
 $
 $902
 $734
 $
 $734
Mutual funds14
 
 14
 16
 
 16
Total assets at fair value$916
 $
 $916
 $750
 $
 $750
As of September 30, 2018, we held $902 million in U.S. Treasury and other foreign government securities which are considered cash equivalents and for which the carrying amount approximates fair value. Of these securities, $635 million were recorded as short-term restricted cash and cash equivalents and $267 million were recorded as long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2018.
MutualOur mutual funds are equity and fixed income mutual funds held for the purpose of providing future payments for the supplemental executive savings plan and the supplemental executive retirement plan and are classified as equity investments.
We did not use Level 2 or 3 inputs to determine the fair value of assets or liabilitiesinvestments and measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2018 or December 31, 2017. using Level 1 inputs with adjustments recorded in net income.
We measure certain assets, such as intangible assets, at fair value on a non-recurring basis. These assets are recognized at fair value if they are deemed to be impaired. As of September 30, 2018, except for the fair value adjustment related to our $4 million impairment of exchange registration intangible assets associated with the closure of ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada (Note 5), none of our intangible assets were required to be recorded at fair value since no other impairments were recorded. Our equity investments without a readily determinable fair value, including our investments in Euroclear and Coinbase, are onlyhold money market funds measured at fair value onusing Level 1 inputs with adjustments recorded in net income.
MERSCORP Holdings, Inc., or MERS, is part of our ICE Mortgage Services business and holds fixed income investments in order to satisfy the original terms of the governing documents of our June 2016 acquisition of a non-recurring basis when a certain trigger event occursmajority equity position in accordance with ASU 2016-01, as discussed in Notes 2 and 3. We did not have any suchMERS. These investments are measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis as of September 30, 2018. See Note 10 for the fair value considerations related to our margin deposits, guaranty funds and delivery contracts receivable.
As of September 30, 2018, (i) the fair value of our $1.23 billion 2048 Senior Notes was $1.23 billion, (ii) the fair value of our $591 million 2028 Senior Notes was $595 million, (iii) the fair value of our $495 million 2027 Senior Notes was $473 million, (iv) the fair value of our $1.24 billion 2025 Senior Notes was $1.25 billion, (v) the fair value of our $793 million October 2023 Senior Notes was $818 million, (vi) the fair value of our $397 million September 2023 Senior Notes was $399 million, (vii) the fair value of our $496 million 2022 Senior Notes was $480 million, and (viii) the fair value of our $1.25 billion 2020 Senior Notes was $1.24 billion. The fair values of these fixed rate notes were estimated using quoted market prices for these instruments. The fair value of our commercial paper approximates the carrying value since the rates of interest on this short-term debt approximate market rates as of September 30, 2018.Level 2 inputs with adjustments recorded in net income.
Excluding our equity investments without a readily determinable fair value, all other financial instruments are determined to approximate carrying value due to the short period of time to their maturities.
We did not use Level 3 inputs to determine the fair value of assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of March 31, 2019 or December 31, 2018.
We measure certain assets, such as intangible assets, at fair value on a non-recurring basis. These assets are recognized at fair value if they are deemed to be impaired. As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, none of our intangible assets were required to be recorded at fair value since no impairments were recorded.
We measure certain equity investments at fair value on a non-recurring basis using our policy election under ASU No. 2016-01, Financial Instruments-Overall (Subtopic 825-10): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we evaluated a transaction involving one of these investments and concluded that no fair value adjustment was required under this election.
See Note 11 for the fair value considerations related to our margin deposits, guaranty funds and delivery contracts receivable.
The table below displays the fair value of our debt as of March 31, 2019. The fair values of our fixed rate notes were estimated using quoted market prices for these instruments. The fair value of our commercial paper approximates par value since the interest rates on this short-term debt approximate market rates as of March 31, 2019.
 As of March 31, 2019
 Carrying Amount Fair value
Debt:
In Millions

Commercial Paper$1,005
 $1,008
2020 Senior Notes (2.75% senior unsecured notes due December 1, 2020)1,247
 1,252
2022 Senior Notes (2.35% senior unsecured notes due September 15, 2022)496
 493
2023 Senior Notes (3.45% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2023)397
 411
2023 Senior Notes (4.00% senior unsecured notes due October 15, 2023)793
 841
2025 Senior Notes (3.75% senior unsecured notes due December 1, 2025)1,243
 1,302
2027 Senior Notes (3.10% senior unsecured notes due September 15, 2027)496
 497
2028 Senior Notes (3.75% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2028)592
 624
2048 Senior Notes (4.25% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2048)1,228
 1,317
Total debt$7,497
 $7,745

13.14.Segment Reporting

We operate two business segments: our Trading and Clearing segment and our Data and Listings segment. This presentation is reflective of how our chief operating decision maker reviews and operates our business. Our Trading and Clearing segment comprises our transaction-based execution and clearing businesses. Our Data and Listings segment comprises our subscription-based data services and our securities listings businesses.businesses, which are both largely subscription-based. Our chief operating decision maker does not review total assets or statements of income below operating income by segments; therefore, such information is not presented below. Our two segments do not engage in intersegment transactions.

Certain segment expenses for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2017 have been reclassified to conform to our current periods' segment financial statement presentation. This reclassification increased the operating expenses for the Data and Listings segment by $50 million and $17 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2017, respectively, while

decreasing the operating expenses for the Trading and Clearing segment by the same amounts. Financial data for our business segments is as follows for the nine and three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018 and 2017 (in millions):
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017
 Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Consolidated Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Consolidated
Revenues:           
Energy futures and options contracts$708
 $
 $708
 $682
 $
 $682
Agricultural and metals futures and options contracts197
 
 197
 167
 
 167
Interest rates and other financial futures and options contracts262
 
 262
 254
 
 254
Cash equities and equity options1,162
 
 1,162
 1,126
 
 1,126
OTC and other transactions193
 
 193
 144
 
 144
Pricing and analytics
 779
 779
 
 722
 722
Exchange data
 433
 433
 
 416
 416
Desktops and connectivity
 364
 364
 
 421
 421
Listings
 332
 332
 
 322
 322
Other revenues169
 
 169
 148
 
 148
Revenues2,691
 1,908
 4,599
 2,521
 1,881
 4,402
Transaction-based expenses928
 
 928
 910
 
 910
Revenues, less transaction-based expenses1,763
 1,908
 3,671
 1,611
 1,881
 3,492
Operating expenses655
 1,109
 1,764
 595
 1,110
 1,705
Operating income$1,108
 $799
 $1,907
 $1,016
 $771
 $1,787


Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017Three Months Ended March 31, 2019 Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Consolidated Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment ConsolidatedTrading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Consolidated Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Consolidated
Revenues:                      
Energy futures and options contracts$223
 $
 $223
 $223
 $
 $223
$229
 $
 $229
 $235
 $
 $235
Agricultural and metals futures and options contracts58
 
 58
 49
 
 49
62
 
 62
 65
 
 65
Interest rates and other financial futures and options contracts77
 
 77
 82
 
 82
Financial futures and options contracts83
 
 83
 91
 
 91
Cash equities and equity options335
 
 335
 355
 
 355
390
 
 390
 438
 
 438
Fixed income and credit87
 
 87
 56
 
 56
OTC and other transactions67
 
 67
 49
 
 49
11
 
 11
 13
 
 13
Pricing and analytics
 263
 263
 
 242
 242

 266
 266
 
 254
 254
Exchange data
 146
 146
 
 136
 136
Exchange data and feeds
 176
 176
 
 164
 164
Desktops and connectivity
 121
 121
 
 140
 140

 104
 104
 
 102
 102
Listings
 112
 112
 
 105
 105

 111
 111
 
 109
 109
Other revenues61
 
 61
 54
 
 54
64
 
 64
 53
 
 53
Revenues821
 642
 1,463
 812
 623
 1,435
926
 657
 1,583
 951
 629
 1,580
Transaction-based expenses263
 
 263
 289
 
 289
313
 
 313
 355
 
 355
Revenues, less transaction-based expenses558
 642
 1,200
 523
 623
 1,146
613
 657
 1,270
 596
 629
 1,225
Operating expenses230
 368
 598
 198
 352
 550
228
 377
 605
 207
 368
 575
Operating income$328
 $274
 $602
 $325
 $271
 $596
$385
 $280
 $665
 $389
 $261
 $650


Revenue from one clearing member of the Trading and Clearing segment comprised $300$95 million, or 17%16% of our Trading and $89Clearing revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2019. Revenue from one clearing member of the Trading and Clearing segment comprised $104 million, or 16%18%, of our Trading and Clearing revenues for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively. Revenue from two clearing members of the Trading and Clearing segment comprised $364 million, or 23%, and $121 million, or 23%, of our Trading and Clearing revenues for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2017, respectively.March 31, 2018. Clearing members are primarily intermediaries and represent a broad range of principal trading firms. If a clearing member ceased its operations, we believe that the trading firms would continue to conduct transactions and would clear those transactions through another clearing member firm. No additional customers or clearing members accounted for more than 10% of our segment revenues or consolidated revenues for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and 2017.2018.

14.15.Earnings Per Common Share
The following is a reconciliation of the numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted earnings per common share computations for the nine and three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018 and 2017 (in millions, except per share amounts):
Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
 Three Months Ended September 30, Three Months Ended March 31,
2018 2017 2018 2017 2019 2018
Basic:           
Net income attributable to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.$1,377
 $1,293
 $458
 $371
 $484
 $464
Weighted average common shares outstanding577
 591
 572
 588
 568
 582
Basic earnings per common share$2.39
 $2.19
 $0.80
 $0.63
 $0.85
 $0.80
Diluted:           
Weighted average common shares outstanding577
 591
 572
 588
 568
 582
Effect of dilutive securities - stock options and restricted shares4
 4
 4
 4
 2
 4
Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding581
 595
 576
 592
 570
 586
Diluted earnings per common share$2.37
 $2.17
 $0.79
 $0.63
 $0.85
 $0.79
Basic earnings per common share is calculated using the weighted average common shares outstanding during the period. Common equivalent shares from stock options and restricted stock awards, using the treasury stock method, are included in the diluted per share calculations unless the effect of their inclusion would be antidilutive. During the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, 813,000 and 2017, 450,613 and 682,019302,000 outstanding stock options, respectively, were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per common share, since the inclusionbecause to do so would have had an antidilutive effect because the outstanding stock option exercise prices were greater than the average market price of the common shares during the relevant periods.effect. Certain figures in the table above may not recalculate due to rounding.

15.16.Subsequent Events
On May 1, 2019, we announced that we have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Simplifile, LC, or Simplifile, for $335 million in cash. Simplifile operates one of the largest networks connecting the agents and jurisdictions that underpin mortgage records. Simplifile serves as an electronic liaison between lenders, settlement agents, and county recording offices, and streamlines the local recording of residential mortgage transactions. The transaction will expand the ICE Mortgage Services portfolio, which includes MERS, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2019, subject to obtaining the required regulatory approvals.
We have evaluated subsequent events and determined that no other events or transactions except the event disclosed in Note 3, met the definition of a subsequent event for purposes of recognition or disclosure in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.



ITEM 2.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
ITEM 2.    MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, unless otherwise indicated, the terms “Intercontinental Exchange,” “ICE,” “we,” “us,” “our,” “our company” and “our business” refer to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries. References to "ICE Products" mean products listed on one or more of our markets. Due to rounding, figures may not sum exactly.
Forward-Looking Statements
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including the sections entitled “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements,” “Legal Proceedings” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” contains “forward-looking statements” as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements. Any forward looking statements are based on our present beliefs and assumptions as well as the information currently available to us. Forward-looking statements may be introduced by or contain terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “targets,” “goal,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” or the antonyms of these terms or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our results, levels of activity, performance, cash flows, financial position or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements. statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance, cash flows, financial position or achievements. Accordingly, we caution you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements we may make.
Factors that may affect our performance and the accuracy of any forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those listed below:
conditions in global financial markets and domestic and international economic, political and social conditions;
the impact of the introduction of or any changes in laws, regulations, rules or government policies with respect to financial markets, increased regulatory scrutiny or enforcement actions and our ability to comply with these requirements;
volatility in commodity prices, equity prices and price volatility of financial benchmarks and instruments such as interest rates, credit spreads, equity indices and foreign exchange rates;
the business environment in which we operate and trends in our industry, including trading volumes, clearing, data services, fees, changing regulations, competition and consolidation;
our ability to minimize the risks associated with operating clearing houses in multiple jurisdictions;
our equity and options exchanges’ compliance with their respective regulatory and oversight responsibilities;
the resilience of our electronic platforms and soundness of our business continuity and disaster recovery plans;
changes in renewal rates of subscription-based data revenues;
our ability to identify and effectively pursue, implement and integrate acquisitions and strategic alliances; and to realize the synergies and benefits of such transactions within the expected time frame;
the performance and reliability of our trading and clearing technologies and those of third-party service providers;
our ability to keep pace with technological developments;
our ability to ensure that the technology we utilize is not vulnerable to cybersecurity risks or other disruptive events;
our ability to identify trends and adjust our business to benefit from such trends;
the accuracy of our cost and other financial estimates and our belief that cash flows from operations will be sufficient to service our debt and to fund our operational and capital expenditure needs;
our ability to maintain existing market participants and data customers, and to attract new ones;
our ability to offer additional products and services, leverage our risk management capabilities and enhance our technology in a timely and cost-effective fashion;
our ability to attract and retain key talent;
our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and to operate our business without violating the intellectual property rights of others;
potential adverse results of threatened or pending litigation and regulatory actions and proceedings; and
our ability to realize the expected benefits of our majority investment in Bakkt which could result in additional unanticipated costs and risks.


These risks and other factors include those set forth in Item 1(A) under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017,2018, or our 20172018 Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on February 7, 2018.
Forward-looking statements and other risks and2019. Due to the uncertain nature of these factors, that may affect our performance include, but are not limited to: conditions in global financial markets and domestic and international economic, political and social conditions; the impact of the introduction of or any changes in laws, regulations, rules or government policy with respect to financial markets, increased regulatory scrutiny or enforcement actions and our ability to comply with these requirements; volatility in commodity prices, equity prices, and price volatility of financial benchmarks and instruments such as interest rates, credit spreads, equity indices and foreign exchange rates; the business environment in which we operate and trends in our industry, including trading volumes, clearing, data services, fees, changing regulations, competition and consolidation; the success of our clearing houses and our ability to minimize the risks associated with operating clearing houses in multiple jurisdictions; the success of our equity and derivative exchanges and the exchanges’ compliance with their respective regulatory and oversight responsibilities; the resilience of our electronic platforms and soundness of our business continuity and disaster recovery plans; continued high renewal rates of subscription-based data revenues; our ability to identify and effectively pursue, implement and integrate acquisitions and strategic alliances; our ability to complete and realize the synergies and benefits of our acquisitions within the expected time frame, and to integrate acquired operations with our business; our ability to effectively maintain our growth; the performance and reliability of our other technologies and those of third party service providers, including our ability to keep pace with technological developments and ensure that the technology we utilize is not vulnerable to security risks or other disruptive events; our ability to identify trends and adjust our business to benefit from such trends; the accuracy of our cost and other financial estimates and our belief that cash flows from operations will be sufficient to service our debt and fund our operational and capital expenditure needs; our ability to maintain existing market participants and data customers, and attract new ones, and to offer additional products and services, leverage our risk management capabilities and enhance our technology in a timely and cost-effective fashion; our ability to attract and retain key talent; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and to operate our business without violating the intellectual property rights of others; and potential adverse results of threatened or pending litigation and regulatory actions and proceedings.
We caution you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements as they speak only as of the date on which such statements were made, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or to reflect the occurrence of an unanticipated event. New factors may emerge and it is not possible to predict all factors that may affect our business and prospects. Further, management cannot assess the impact of each factor on the business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.
InAny forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and we undertake no obligation to update any of these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, unless otherwise indicated, the terms “Intercontinental Exchange,” “ICE,” “we,” “us,” “our,” “our company”10-Q. New factors may emerge and “our business” referit is not possible to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries. Due to rounding, figurespredict all factors that may not sum exactly.affect our business and prospects.
Overview
We are a leading global operator of regulated exchanges, clearing houses and listings venues, and a provider of data services for commodity, financial, fixed income and equity markets. We operate regulated marketplaces for listing, trading and clearing a broad array of derivatives contracts and securities contracts across all major asset classes, including energy and agricultural commodities, metals, interest rates, equities, equity derivatives, ETFs, credit derivatives, bonds and currencies. We also offer end-to-endcomprehensive data services and solutions to support the trading, investment, risk management, mortgage service and connectivity needs of customers around the world and across all major asset classes.
Our exchanges include derivative exchanges in the U.S., U.K., EU, Canada and Singapore, and cash equities, equity options and bond exchangestrading venues in the U.S. We also operate OTC markets for physical energy, fixed income and CDS trade execution. To

serve global derivatives markets, we operate central counterparty clearing houses, or CCPs, in the U.S., U.K., EU, Canada and Singapore. We offer a range of data services, globally, for global financial and commodity markets, including pricing and reference data, exchange data, analytics, feeds, index services, desktops and connectivity solutions. Through our markets, clearing houses, listings and data services, we provide end-to-endcomprehensive solutions for our customers through liquid markets, benchmark products, access to capital markets and related services to support their ability to manage risk and raise capital. Our business is currently conducted as two reportable business segments, our Trading and Clearing segment and our Data and Listings segment, and the majority of our identifiable assets are located in the U.S., and U.K. and Canada.
Recent Developments
U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, or TCJA
On December 22, 2017, the TCJA was signed into law. The TCJA reduced the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018. Many of the tax provisions under the TCJA became effective January 1, 2018, including the new federal 21% corporate income tax rate and complex international tax provisions. Given the complexity of these international provisions and certain potential unintended consequences that are under debate at both the federal and state level, certain federal and state guidance has been issued and further guidance is anticipated, but the likelihood and timing of such guidance remains uncertain.
Acquisitions
On January 2, 2018, we acquired BondPoint from Virtu Financial, Inc. for $400 million in cash. BondPoint is a provider of electronic fixed income trading solutions for the buy-side and sell-side, offering access to centralized liquidity and automated trade execution services through its ATS, and provides trading services to more than 500 financial services firms.
On July 18, 2018, we acquired CHX Holdings, Inc., the parent company of CHX, a full-service stock exchange, including trading, data and corporate listings services. CHX operates as a registered national securities exchange.
On July 23, 2018, we acquired TMC Bonds for $701 million in cash. The cash consideration is gross of $14 million cash held by TMC Bonds on the date of acquisition. TMC Bonds is an electronic fixed income marketplace, supporting anonymous trading across multiple protocols in various asset classes, including municipals, corporates, treasuries, agencies and certificates of deposit.
On July 20, 2018, we exercised our option to purchase all of the remaining equity interests of MERS as a result of satisfying our deliverables under the software development agreement to rebuild the MERS® System to benefit the U.S. residential mortgage finance market. As of September 30, 2018, we owned a majority stake in MERS, which we treated as an equity investment since we did not have the ability to control the operations of MERS. On October 3, 2018, we completed the purchase of all remaining interests and accordingly, own 100% of MERS. On that date, we gained control of MERS and began to include MERS's results as part of our consolidated operations. In connection with the purchase and upon consolidation, we expect to record a $110 million gain on our initial investment value, which would be included in other non-operating income on October 3, 2018.
Launch of Bakkt
On August 3, 2018, we announced our plans to form a new company, Bakkt, LLC, or Bakkt, along with a group of organizations to create an integrated platform that enables consumers and institutions to transact in digital assets. The Bakkt ecosystem will include federally-regulated trading, clearing and warehousing of digital assets, which will be supported by ICE Futures U.S. and ICE Clear U.S. The first traded contract will be a Bakkt Bitcoin physically delivered daily futures contract to provide price discovery, expected to launch during the fourth quarter of 2018, subject to the review and approval of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC. The addition of the warehouse will establish new protocols for managing the specific security and settlement requirements of digital currencies. In addition, there will be a separate guaranty fund that will be funded by ICE Futures U.S. and Bakkt. It is also expected that Bakkt will offer additional solutions starting in 2019 to expand the range of uses for digital assets. 
Investment in Euroclear
During the year ended December 31, 2017, we purchased a 4.7% stake in Euroclear valued at €276 million ($327 million). Upon purchasing this stake, we agreed to participate on the Euroclear Board of Directors. During the same period, we negotiated an additional purchase which closed on February 21, 2018 following regulatory approval. This provided us with an additional 5.1% stake in Euroclear for a purchase price of €246 million in cash ($304 million). As of September 30, 2018, we owned a 9.8% stake in Euroclear for a total investment of $631 million. Euroclear is a provider of post-trade services, including settlement, central securities depositories and related services for cross-border transactions across asset classes.

Purchase of Non-Controlling Interest
For consolidated subsidiaries in which our ownership is less than 100% and for which we have control over the assets, liabilities and management of the entity, the outside stockholders’ interests are shown as non-controlling interest in our consolidated financial statements. As of December 31, 2017, non-controlling interest consisted of the operating results of our CDS clearing subsidiaries in which non-ICE limited partners held a 29.9% ownership interest. During September 2018, we purchased a 3.2% ownership interest from a non-ICE limited partner and the remaining non-ICE limited partners hold a 26.7% ownership interest as of September 30, 2018.
Regulation
Our markets are primarily subject to the jurisdiction of regulatory agencies in the U.S., U.K., EU, Canada and Singapore. Global policy makers have undertaken reviews of their existing legal framework governing financial markets in connection with regulatory reform, and have either passed new laws and regulations, or are in the process of debating and/or enacting new laws and regulations that apply to our business and to our customers’ businesses. Legislative and regulatory actions may impact the way in which we or our customers conduct business and may create uncertainty, which could affect trading volumes or demand for market data. See Part 1, Item 1 “Business - Regulation” and Part 1, Item 1(A) "Risk Factors" included in our 20172018 Form 10-K for a discussion of the primary regulations applicable to our business.business and certain risks associated with those regulations. As discussed in Part 1, Item 1 of our 20172018 Form 10-K, the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, and associated regulation, or MiFID II, and its counterpart the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, or EMIR, may result in operational, regulatory and/or business risk. Our key areas
Most of focus on these evolving efforts are:
Following the implementation ofspecific regulations which support the MiFID II in January 2018,framework have now been approved or deferred by the European Parliament and European Council. The European Securities and Markets Authority, or ESMA, and the national regulatory authorities continueare continuing to review the calibration of certainwork on detailed aspects of the framework that are relevant to the markets operated by ICE Futures Europe and ICE Endex, including position limits and the determination of pre-trade and post-tradeprice transparency parameters for financial instruments. 
The key areas in the evolving regulatory landscape that are likely to impact our business are:
The proposed revisions to the regulatory structure of non-EU clearing houses. On March 13, 2019, the European Parliament and Council reached an agreement on the European Commission's proposal to revise the EU's current regulatory and supervisory structure for EU and non-EU clearing houses, called EMIR 2.2. The proposed revisions of the regulatory structure could have an impact on our non-EU clearing houses to the extent they are deemed to be doing business in the EU, which might involve changes to clearing house regulations and/or supervision. In 2017, the European Commission published a proposal to revise the current regulatory structure for non-EU clearing houses. The nature and extent of the regulation wouldregulation's impact will depend on the “impact” of a non-EU clearing house’s business in the EU. Details on the impact classification of non-EU clearing will be established by the European Commission in

cooperation with ESMA and the European System of Central Banks. The proposal will undergo legislative review byexact date of application of EMIR 2.2 is currently unclear, but could be as early as the European Parliament and the EU Member States, and is subject to change. 
The non-discriminatory access provisionsfirst quarter of MiFID II, as currently drafted, would require our European exchanges and CCPs, to offer access to third parties on commercially reasonable terms. In addition, MiFID II could require our European exchanges and CCPs to allow participants to trade and/or clear at other venues, which may encourage competing venues to offer lookalikes of our products. In June 2016, the EU approved a twelve-month postponement of MiFID II implementation and compliance to January 3, 2018. On January 3, 2018, ICE Futures Europe and ICE Clear Europe received a deferral from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, and the BOE, respectively, which delays the non-discriminatory access provision of MiFID II until July 3, 2020.
The adoption and implementation of position limit rules in the U.S. and the EU could have an impact on our commodities business if comparable trading venues in foreign jurisdictions are not subject to equivalent rules. Position limits became effective in the EU beginning January 2018 under MiFID II. The FCA has published certain position limits for commodity contracts. In certain cases, the position limits are lower than on U.S. trading venues and in certain cases position limits are higher than U.S. equivalent contracts. The FCA is actively reviewing the recently issued position limits. Conversely, in December 2016, the CFTC re-proposed the position limit rules as opposed to finalizing the rule. There is potential for further divergence between MiFID II and U.S. position limit rules if the U.S. makes changes to the financial regulations while the EU does not review MiFID II.
Basel III capital charges. The implementation of capital charges in Basel III, particularly, the Supplemental Leverage Ratio with respectapplicable to certain clearing members of central counterparties,financial institutions, may impose burdensome capital requirements on certain of our clearing house members and their customers that may disincentivizeraise the costs and thus discourage financial institutions from client clearing. The Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have proposed rule changes to the derivative exposure calculations and leverage ratio requirements, but these regulations still may have ana negative impact on certain of our clearing members.

If the SEC approves the proposed two-year Transaction Fee Pilot, it could make our securities exchanges, including NYSE, less competitive with off-exchange trading venuesContinued access by limiting the transaction fees chargedEU market participants to U.K. CCPs and rebates paid by these exchanges.
exchanges.The U.K. and EU continue to negotiate the exit of the U.K. from the EU.EU (commonly known as Brexit). On April 10, 2019, the European Commission agreed to an extension to allow for the U.K. ratification of the withdrawal agreement to last as long as necessary and, in any event, no longer than October 31, 2019. In anticipation of Brexit, the European Commission adopted an equivalence decision regarding the U.K.’s legal and supervisory arrangements for CCPs in December 2018, and in February 2019, ESMA approved ICE Clear Europe as a third-country CCP. Upon the U.K.’s exit from the EU, EU market participants will be able to continue clearing through U.K. CCPs, such as ICE Clear Europe, for a limited period of time in case of a U.K. exit from the EU without a transition period. Separately, following Brexit, ICE Futures Europe will continue to be able to permit access by persons in the EU to trading on its platform, even in the absence of a transition agreement. However, the lack of an equivalence decision and corresponding transition period may result in increased costs for certain EU market participants which could impact trading on ICE Futures Europe. The impact to our business and corresponding regulatory changes areremain uncertain at this time. We are monitoring the impact to our business as a result of these discussions. discussions and are pursuing avenues to facilitate continued access for EU customers to our services in the event the U.K. exits the EU without a transition period.
The SEC Transaction Fee Pilot. In December 2018, the SEC adopted a Transaction Fee Pilot. The adoption establishes a pilot program, for at least one-year and up to two-years, that will limit the fees charged and rebates paid by our five securities exchanges in certain securities to be designated by the SEC. On March 28, 2019, the SEC partially stayed the Transaction Fee Pilot, pending resolution of our and two other national securities exchanges’ petitions for review of the Transaction Fee Pilot by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The only requirement that the SEC did not stay was that which requires the exchanges to collect data during a pre-pilot period. The SEC has not yet announced the date that this pre-pilot period of the Transaction Fee Pilot will commence.
The EU Benchmark Regulation, or BMR. In June 2016, the EU Benchmark Regulation, or BMR, was adopted and applies from January 2018. Under the BMR, benchmarks provided by a third-country benchmark administrator may be used by EU-supervised entities provided that the European Commission has adopted an equivalence decision or the administrator has been recognized or endorsed and the benchmarks are listed on the register established by ESMA. The BMR provides for a transition period which was extended by the EU authorities to January 1, 2022 for providers of critical benchmarks and third-country benchmark providers. During this period ICE Data Indices, LLC applied to the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority for recognition, and benchmarks provided by ICE Data Indices, LLC may continue to be used by supervised entities. 





Consolidated Financial Highlights
The following summarizes our results and significant changes in our consolidated financial performance for the periods presented (dollars in millions, except per share amounts, and YTD represents the nine-month periods ended September 30th)amounts):

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  Three Months Ended 
 March 31,
  
  2019 2018 Change
Revenues, less transaction-based expenses $1,270
 $1,225
 4 %
Operating expenses $605
 $575
 5 %
Adjusted operating expenses(1)
 $528
 $494
 7 %
Operating income $665
 $650
 2 %
Adjusted operating income(1)
 $742
 $731
 2%
Operating margin 52% 53% (1) pt
Adjusted operating margin(1)
 58% 60% (2) pts
Other income (expense), net $(39) $(33) 19 %
Income tax expense $134
 $143
 (7) %
Effective tax rate 21% 23% (2) pts
Net income attributable to ICE $484
 $464
 4 %
Adjusted net income attributable to ICE(1)
 $527
 $525
 —%
Diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders $0.85
 $0.79
 8 %
Adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders(1)
 $0.92
 $0.90
 2 %
Cash flows from operating activities $654
 $573
 14 %
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 Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
   Three Months Ended 
 September 30,
  
 2018 2017 Change 2018 2017 Change
Revenues, less transaction-based expenses$3,671
 $3,492
 5 % $1,200
 $1,146
 5 %
Operating expenses$1,764
 $1,705
 4 % $598
 $550
 9 %
Adjusted operating expenses(1)
$1,518
 $1,466
 4 % $521
 $479
 9 %
Operating income$1,907
 $1,787
 7 % $602
 $596
 1 %
Adjusted operating income(1)
$2,153
 $2,026
 6% $679
 $667
 2%
Operating margin52% 51% 1 pt 50% 52% (2) pts
Adjusted operating margin(1)
59% 58% 1 pt 57% 58% (1) pt
Other income (expense), net$(125) $68
 n/a $(48) $(33) 44 %
Income tax expense$381
 $540
 (29) % $89
 $186
 (52) %
Effective tax rate21% 29% (8) pts 16% 33% (17) pts
Net income attributable to ICE$1,377
 $1,293
 6 % $458
 $371
 24 %
Adjusted net income attributable to ICE(1)
$1,541
 $1,323
 16 % $491
 $432
 13%
Diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders$2.37
 $2.17
 9 % $0.79
 $0.63
 25 %
Adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders(1)
$2.65
 $2.22
 19 % $0.85
 $0.73
 16 %
Cash flows from operating activities$1,735
 $1,410
 23 %      

(1) The adjusted numbers in the charts and table above are calculated by excludingfigures exclude items that are not reflective of our cashongoing core operations and core business performance, and for adjustedperformance. Adjusted net income attributable to ICE and adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders, are presented net of taxes. As a result, theseThese adjusted numbers are not calculated in accordance with GAAP. See “- Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.

Revenues, less transaction-based expenses, increased $179 million and $54$45 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017.2018. See “- Trading"-Trading and Clearing Segment”Segment" and “- Data"Data and Listings Segment”Segment" below for a discussion of the significant changes in our revenues. The increase in revenues during the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018 includes $31$13 million favorable and $1 millionin unfavorable respectively, foreign exchange effects arising from changesfluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar fromfor the comparable periods in

2017.three months ended March 31, 2019. See Item 3 “Quantitative"Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk - ForeignRisk-Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk”Risk" below for additional information on the impact of currency fluctuations. Excluding the $31 million favorable and $1 million in unfavorable foreign exchange effects for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, our revenues, less transaction-based expenses, would have been $3.6 billion and $1.2 billion for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, an increase of 4% and 5%, respectively, from the comparable periods in 2017.
Operating expenses increased $59 million and $48$30 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, from the comparable periods in 2017.March 31, 2019. See “- Consolidated"-Consolidated Operating Expenses”Expenses" below for a discussion of the significant changes in our operating expenses. The increase in operating expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 from the comparable period in 2017, includes $14$5 million in unfavorablefavorable foreign exchange effects arising from fluctuations in the weakening U.S. dollar during that period. There was no significant foreign exchange impact on our operating expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2018 fromMarch 31, 2019. See Item 3 "Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk-Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk" below for additional information on the comparable period in 2017. Excluding the $14 million in unfavorable foreign exchange effects for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, our operating expenses would have been $1.8 billion, an increaseimpact of 3% from the comparable period in 2017.
In connection with the merger of Cetip, S.A., or Cetip, with BM&FBOVESPA S.A., which changed its name to B3 S.A. - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão, or B3, on March 29, 2017, we recognized a $176 million realized investment gain in other income (expense), net for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and $9 million in foreign exchange losses and transaction expenses in other income (expense), net for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. See “- Consolidated Non-Operating Income (Expense)” below.currency fluctuations.
Variability in Quarterly Comparisons

The business environments in which we operate directly affect our results of operations. Our results have been and will continue to be affected by many factors, including, without limitation, market volatility and the level of trading activity in our markets, which during any period is significantly influenced by general market conditions; legislative and regulatory changes as well as fulfillment of our regulatory obligations; competition; demand for our market data services and our market share; our system reliability; our ability to offer new products; acquisition and divestiture activity and the pace of industry consolidation; broad trends in the data and finance industry; the number and financial health of companies listed on our cash markets; geopolitical events; real and perceived supply and demand imbalance; changing technology in the financial services industry; and our reputation, among other factors. Our business environment has been characterized by:
globalization of exchanges, customers and competitors;
interest rate and financial markets uncertainty;
rising demand for speed, data, data capacity and connectivity by industry market participants, necessitating increased investment in technology;
evolving and disparate regulation across multiple jurisdictions;
increasing focus on capital and cost efficiencies;
consolidation and increasing competition among global markets for trading, clearing and listings; the globalization of exchanges, customers and competitors; market participants’ risinglistings.
price volatility increasing customers' demand for speed, data capacityrisk management services;
customers' preference to manage risk in markets demonstrating the greatest depth of liquidity and connectivity, which requires ongoing investment in technology; evolvingproduct diversity; and disparate regulation across multiple jurisdictions; and increasing focus on capital and cost efficiencies.
Price volatility increases the need to hedge risk and creates demand among market participants for the exchangeevolution of risk through trading and clearing. Market liquidity is one of the primary market attributes for attracting and maintaining customers and is an important indicator of a market’s strength. In addition, the ability to evolve existing products and new product innovation to uniquely serve emerging needs, develop new products and respond to competitive dynamics in pricing, exclusivity and consolidation is important to our business. Changes in these and other factors could cause our revenues to fluctuate from period to period and these fluctuations may affect the reliability of period to period comparisons of our revenues and operating results. customer needs.
For additional information regarding the factors that affect our results of operations, see Item 1(A) “Risk Factors” included in our 20172018 Form 10-K.
Segment ReportingResults
We operateOur business is conducted through two reportable business segments: our
Trading and Clearing, segment and our Data and Listings segment. This presentation is reflective of how our chief operating decision maker reviews and operates our business. Our Trading and Clearing segmentwhich comprises our transaction-based execution and clearing businesses. Our businesses; and
Data and Listings, segmentwhich comprises our subscription-based data services and securities listings businesses. Our chief operating decision maker does not review total assets or statements of income below operating income by segments; therefore, such information is not presented below. Our two segments do not engage in intersegment transactions.
While revenues are allocated directlyrecorded specifically in the segment in which they are earned or to segments,which they relate, a significant portion of our operating expenses are not solely related to a specific segment because the expenses serve functions that are necessary for the operation of both segments. Because these expenses do not relate to a single segment, we have employed a reasonable allocation method to allocate expenses between the segments for presentation purposes. We have elected to use a pro-rata revenue approach as the allocation method for the expenses that do not relate solely to one segment. Further, precise allocation of expenses to specific revenue streams within these segments is not reasonably possible. Accordingly, we did not allocate expenses to specific revenue streams within the segments.these segments since such an allocation is not reasonably possible. Our two segments do not engage in intersegment transactions.

Certain segment expenses for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2017 have been reclassified to conform to our current period’s segment financial statement presentation. This reclassification increased the operating expenses for the Data and Listings segment by $50 million and $17 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2017, respectively, while decreasing the operating expenses for the Trading and Clearing segment by the same amount.
Trading and Clearing Segment
The following charts and table present ourpresents selected statements of income data for our Trading and Clearing segment (dollars in millions and YTD represents the nine-month periods ended September 30th)millions):
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(1) The adjusted numbers in the charts above are calculated by excluding items that are not reflective of our cash operations and core business performance. As a result, these adjusted numbers are not calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP. See “- Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.

Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
   Three Months Ended September 30,  Three Months Ended 
 March 31,
  
2018 2017 Change 2018 2017 Change2019 2018 Change
Revenues:                
Energy futures and options contracts$708
 $682
 4% $223
 $223
  %$229
 $235
 (2)%
Agricultural and metals futures and options contracts197
 167
 18
 58
 49
 17
62
 65
 (5)
Interest rates and other financial futures and options contracts262
 254
 3
 77
 82
 (6)
Financial futures and options contracts83
 91
 (9)
Cash equities and equity options1,162
 1,126
 3
 335
 355
 (6)390
 438
 (11)
Fixed income and credit87
 56
 54
OTC and other transactions193
 144
 35
 67
 49
 40
11
 13
 (14)
Transaction and clearing, net2,522
 2,373
 6
 760
 758
 
862
 898
 (4)
Other revenues169
 148
 14
 61
 54
 13
64
 53
 21
Revenues2,691
 2,521
 7
 821
 812
 1
926
 951
 (3)
Transaction-based expenses928
 910
 2
 263
 289
 (9)313
 355
 (12)
Revenues, less transaction-based expenses1,763
 1,611
 9
 558
 523
 7
613
 596
 3
Other operating expenses492
 452
 9
 171
 153
 11
170
 157
 8
Depreciation and amortization155
 142
 9
 53
 44
 21
58
 50
 17
Acquisition-related transaction and integration costs8
 1
 n/a
 6
 1
 n/a
Operating expenses655
 595
 10
 230
 198
 17
228
 207
 10
Operating income$1,108
 $1,016
 9% $328
 $325
 1 %$385
 $389
 (1)%
Transaction and Clearing Revenues
Overview
Our transaction and clearing revenues are reported on a net basis, except for the NYSE transaction-based expenses discussed below, and consist of fees collected from our derivatives, fixed income, cash equities and equity options trading and derivatives clearing. In our derivatives markets, we earn transaction and clearing revenues from both counterparties to each contract that is traded and/or cleared, and in our equity and equity options markets, we receive trade execution fees as well as routing fees related to orders in our markets which are routed to other markets for execution.
Rates per-contract, or RPC, are driven by the number of contracts or securities traded and the fees charged per contract, net of certain rebates. Our per-contract transaction and clearing revenues will depend upon many factors, including, but not limited to, market conditions, transaction and clearing volume, product mix, pricing, applicable revenue sharing and market making agreements, and new product introductions. Because transaction and clearing revenues are generally assessed on a per-contract basis, revenues and profitability fluctuate with changes in contract volume and due to product mix.
For both the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, 20%21% of our Trading and Clearing segment revenues, less transaction-based expenses, were billed in pounds sterling or euros and for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, 19% and 21%, respectively, were billed in pounds sterling or euros. As the pound sterling or euro exchange rate changes, the U.S. equivalent of revenues denominated in foreign currencies changes accordingly. The weakeningFor the three months ended March 31, 2019 as compared to the same period in 2018, foreign currency fluctuations of the U.S. dollar as compared to the pound sterling and euro resulted in an increasea decrease to our Trading and Clearing segment revenues, less transaction-based expenses, by $24 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, from the comparable period in 2017 and there was no significant impact for the three months ended September 30, 2018 from the comparable period in 2017.of $9 million. See Item 3 “- Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk - Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk” below for additional information on the impact of currency fluctuations.
Our transaction and clearing revenues are presented net of rebates. We recorded rebates of $615$215 million and $576 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $183 million and $184$220 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. We offer rebates in certain of our markets primarily to support market liquidity and trading volume by providing qualified participants in those markets a discount to the applicable commission rate. Such rebates are calculated based on volumes traded. The increase in the rebates is due primarily to an increase in the number of participants in the rebate programs offered on various contracts, an increase in our traded volume and an increase in the number of rebate programs.

Energy Futures and Options Contracts
Contracts: Total energy volume decreased 3% and revenues increased 4%decreased 12% and 2%, respectively, for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 from the comparable period in 2017. Total energy volume2018. Revenues decreased 6% and revenues were flat for the three months ended September 30, 2018 from the comparable period in 2017. Revenues increased despite volume declines because of a higher mix of gasoil and emissions volumes, which have a higher average RPC than other energy products. We operate global crudedue to lower oil and refined oil futures markets, including the ICE Brent, ICE WTInatural gas volumes.
We offer trading and ICE Gasoil futures and options contracts, as well as over 500 refined oil futures products that relate to our benchmark futures contracts and other key price benchmarks. The ICE Brent crude contract is relied upon byclearing services across a broad range of global market participants, including oil producing nationsbenchmark contracts, including: Brent, West Texas Intermediate, or WTI, Platts Dubai, Gasoil, Heating Oil, and multinational companies, to price and hedge their crude oil production and consumption. The Brent complex, which includes ICE Brent crude futures, is a grouphundreds of related benchmarks used to price an array of traded oil products, including approximately two-thirds of the world’s internationally-traded crude oil. The ICE Low Sulphur Gasoil contract is a European diesel oil contract that offers physical delivery and serves as the leading middle distillate pricing benchmark for refined oil products, particularly in Europe and Asia.
Total oil volume was flat for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 from the comparable period in 2017.additional grades. Total oil volume decreased

9% for the three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 from the comparable period in 20172018 in part due to a more pronounced seasonality impact than in the comparable period in 2017, coupled with strong volumes in the prior year period driven by shifting supply-demandconfluence of various geopolitical uncertainties as well as supply and demand dynamics. ICE Brent crude futures and options volume decreased 2% and 8% during the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, from the comparable periods in 2017. ICE WTI crude futures and options volume increased 1% and decreased 14% for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, from the comparable periods in 2017. Gasoil futures and options volume increased 7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 from the comparable period in 2017, primarily driven by increasing demand for distillates and strong economic activity in Europe and Asia. Gasoil futures and options volume decreased 13% for the three months ended September 30, 2018 driven by a more pronounced seasonality impact than in the comparable period in 2017.
Our global natural gas futures and options volume decreased 9% and 2%18% for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017. Volume decreased2018. The volume decrease was primarily due to lower U.S. price volatility reducing our commercial customers' need to hedge the Henry Hub contract, and depressed natural gas prices driven by a continued surplus of natural gas duringin the nine months ended September 30, 2018 as comparedU.S., specifically related to the same periodHenry Hub contract. The decrease in 2017. Ourour Henry Hub natural gas volume decrease was partially offset by increased volumes in our North American basis market and European TTF gas contract. The strength in our European TTF gas volumes was driven by the continued emergence of TTF as the European benchmark for natural gas products.as natural gas continues to globalize. Emission futures and options volumes increased 35% for the three months ended March 31, 2019 from the comparable period in 2018 driven by higher carbon prices and supply-demand dynamics impacted by regulatory uncertainty.
Agricultural and Metals Futures and Options Contracts
Contracts: Total volume and revenues in our agricultural and metals futures and options markets increased 15%decreased 1% and 18%5%, respectively, for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 from the comparable period in 2017, and increased 16% and 17% for the three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, from the comparable period in 2017.2018. Volume in our largest agricultural contract, sugar futures and options, increased 17% and 21%3% for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017, and other2018. Other agricultural and metal futures and options volume increased 13% and 12%decreased 5% for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017.2018. The increasesoverall decreases in agricultural volumes in 2018 as compared to 2017 were primarily resulting from price volatility driven by shifting supplygeopolitical uncertainty related to the trade negotiations between the U.S. and demand dynamics. China.
Interest Rates and Other
Financial Futures and Options Contracts
Contracts: Interest rates futures and options volume and revenue increased 7%decreased 9% and 14%11%, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 from the comparable period in 2017, and increased 4% and was flat, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 from the comparable period in 2017. Interest2018. Our interest rate futures and options volume increased duringdecreased for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018 primarilyMarch 31, 2019 due to expectations for heightened central bank activity during 2018 coupled with geopolitical risk in the U.K.Brexit and Europe.an uncertain European economic backdrop. Interest raterates futures and options revenues increased more than traded volumes, compared towere $53 million and $60 million for the prior year periods, primarily due to the impact of foreign currency translationthree months ended March 31, 2019 and fewer market making rebates. 2018, respectively.
Other financial futures and options volume decreased 18% and 19%, respectively,7% for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017,2018. The decrease was primarily due to lower equity market volatility than during the 2017 termination of our exclusive license to list futures and options contracts on the Russell indices. Excluding the futures and options contracts on the Russell indices, othersame prior year period. Other financial futures and options volume increased 11%revenues were $30 million and 4%, respectively,$31 million for the nine and three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, from the comparable periods in 2017.respectively.
Cash Equities and Equity Options
Options: Cash equities handled volume increased 4% and 7%9% for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017 primarily2018 due to higher total U.S. equityindustry volumes coupled withand increased market share as compared to the May 2018 commencement of trading of NYSE National and the July 2018 acquisition of CHX Holdings, Inc.same prior year period. Cash equities revenues, net of transaction-based expenses, were $157$52 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, an increase of 4% from $149 million for the nine months

ended September 30, 2017 and $47$56 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, an increase of 2% from $46 millionrespectively.
Equity options volume decreased 5% for the three months ended September 30, 2017.
Equity options volume increased 42% and 31% for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017,2018 primarily due to greater equitieslower equity market volatility during the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018as compared to the same prior year periods.period. Equity options revenues, net of transaction-based expenses, were $77$25 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, an increase of 13% from $67 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and $25$27 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, an increase of 13% from $20respectively.
Fixed Income and Credit: CDS clearing revenues were $38 million and $42 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017.
OTCMarch 31, 2019 and Other Transactions
CDS clearing revenues were $105 million and $86 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, and 2017, respectively, and $32 million and $30 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. The notional value of CDS cleared was $12.1$4.4 trillion and $8.9 trillion for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $3.6 trillion and $3.3$4.7 trillion, for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. The increase inBuy-side participation at our U.S. CDS clearing revenues washouse, ICE Clear Credit, reached record levels in terms of number of participants and single name notional cleared during the three months ended March 31, 2019. These record levels were driven by recordincreased participation from both U.S. and European buy-side clearing during the nine months ended September 30, 2018. OTCcustomers. Fixed income and credit also includes revenues also include revenues from ICE Mortgage Services and ICE Bonds, which includes ICE BondPoint, TMC Bonds, LLC, or TMC Bonds, and ICE Credit Trade,Trade.
OTC and Other Transactions: OTC and other transactions include revenues from our OTC energy business and other trade confirmation services.
Other Revenues
Revenues: Other revenues primarily include interest income on certain clearing margin deposits, regulatory penalties and fines, fees for use of our facilities, regulatory fees charged to member organizations of our U.S. securities exchanges, designated market maker service fees, exchange membership fees and agricultural grading and certification fees. The increase in other revenues for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017,2018 is primarily due to increased interest income earned on certain clearing margin deposits reflecting higher balances and increased interest rates as well as a $5 million settlement received by NYSE Regulation from ING Financial Markets, LLC, or ING, following an investigation into improper conduct by ING's lending desk from 2007 to 2015. The increase was partially offset by a $6 million breakup fee received in August 2017 relatedcompared to the termination of the derivatives clearing agreement with Euronext Group N.V.'s, or Euronext, under which ICE Clear Netherlands was to provide clearing of Euronext's financial and commodity derivatives.same prior year period.

Selected Operating Data
The following charts and table present trading activity in our futures and options markets by commodity type based on the total number of contracts traded, as well as futures and options rate per contract (in millions, except for percentages and rate per contract amounts and YTD represents the nine month periods ended September 30th)amounts):

Volume and RatesRate per Contract
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  Three Months Ended March 31,  
  2019 2018 Change
Number of contracts traded (in millions):      
Energy futures and options 156
 176
 (12)%
Agricultural and metals futures and options 27
 28
 (1)
Financial futures and options 168
 183
 (8)
Total 351
 387
 (9)%
       
  Three Months Ended March 31,  
  2019 2018 Change
Average Daily Volume of contracts traded (in thousands):      
Energy futures and options 2,552
 2,893
 (12)%
Agricultural and metals futures and options 449
 455
 (1)
Financial futures and options 2,672
 2,916
 (8)
Total 5,673
 6,264
 (9)%
       
  Three Months Ended March 31,  
  2019 2018 Change
Rate per contract:      
Energy futures and options $1.47
 $1.33
 11 %
Agricultural and metals futures and options $2.25
 $2.33
 (3)%
Financial futures and options $0.49
 $0.49
  %
 Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
   Three Months Ended September 30,  
 2018 2017 Change 2018 2017 Change
Number of contracts traded (in millions):           
Energy futures and options507
 520
 (3)% 155
 165
 (6)%
Agricultural and metals futures and options83
 73
 15
 25
 21
 16
Interest rates and other financial futures and options519
 508
 2
 150
 151
 
Total1,109
 1,101
 1 % 330
 337
 (2)%
            
Rate per contract:           
Energy futures and options$1.40
 $1.31
 7 % $1.44
 $1.35
 7 %
Agricultural and metals futures and options$2.37
 $2.31
 2 % $2.34
 $2.32
 1 %
Interest rates and other financial futures and options$0.49
 $0.48
 2 % $0.50
 $0.53
 (6)%
Open interest is the aggregate number of contracts (long or short) that clearing members hold either for their own account or on behalf of their clients. Open interest refers to the total number of contracts that are currently "open,"“open,” – in other words, contracts that have been traded but not yet liquidated by either an offsetting trade, exercise, expiration or assignment. Open interest is also a measure of the future activity remaining to be closed out in terms of the number of contracts that members and their clients continue to hold in the particular contract and by the number of contracts held for each contract month listed by the exchange. The following charts and table present our quarter-end open interest for our futures and options contracts (in thousands, except for percentages):

Open Interest
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As of September 30,  As of March 31,  
2018 2017 Change2019 2018 Change
Open interest — in thousands of contracts:          
Energy futures and options36,312
 35,263
 3%35,825
 34,711
 3 %
Agricultural and metals futures and options3,856
 3,291
 17
3,957
 3,997
 (1)
Interest rates and other financial futures and options28,601
 27,531
 4
Financial futures and options30,350
 28,129
 8
Total68,769
 66,085
 4%70,132
 66,837
 5 %
 

The following charts and table present selected cash and equity options trading data (all trading volume below is
presented as average net daily trading volume, or ADV, and is single counted and YTD represents the nine-month periods ended September 30th)counted):
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Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
   Three Months Ended September 30,   Three Months Ended March 31,  
2018 2017 Change 2018 2017 Change 2019 2018 Change
Cash products (shares in millions):           
NYSE cash equities (shares in millions):      
NYSE listed (Tape A) issues:                 
Handled volume1,095
 1,101
  % 985
 1,014
 (3)% 1,226
 1,196
 3 %
Matched volume1,086
 1,091
  % 976
 1,006
 (3)% 1,213
 1,186
 2 %
Total NYSE listed consolidated volume3,500
 3,463
 1 % 3,144
 3,194
 (2)% 3,794
 3,848
 (1)%
Share of total matched consolidated volume31.0% 31.5% (0.5 pts)
 31.0% 31.5% (0.4 pts)
 32.0% 30.8% 1.1 pts
NYSE Arca, NYSE American and regional listed (Tape B) issues:                 
Handled volume324
 298
 9 % 308
 256
 20 % 389
 369
 5 %
Matched volume315
 290
 9 % 301
 250
 20 % 380
 357
 6 %
Total NYSE Arca, NYSE American and regional listed consolidated volume1,293
 1,222
 6 % 1,149
 1,030
 12 % 1,419
 1,530
 (7)%
Share of total matched consolidated volume24.4% 23.7% 0.6 pts
 26.2% 24.2% 1.9 pts
 26.8% 23.3% 3.4 pts
Nasdaq listed (Tape C) issues:                 
Handled volume190
 145
 31 % 219
 140
 57 % 272
 171
 59 %
Matched volume178
 136
 31 % 206
 132
 56 % 257
 161
 60 %
Total Nasdaq listed consolidated volume2,156
 1,913
 13 % 2,067
 1,841
 12 % 2,327
 2,255
 3 %
Share of total matched consolidated volume8.3% 7.1% 1.2 pts
 9.9% 7.2% 2.8 pts
 11.1% 7.2% 3.9 pts
Total cash handled volume1,609
 1,544
 4 % 1,512
 1,409
 7 % 1,886
 1,736
 9 %
Total cash market share matched22.7% 23.0% (0.3 pts)
 23.3% 22.9% 0.4 pts
 24.5% 22.3% 2.2 pts
                 
Equity options (contracts in thousands):           
NYSE equity options (contracts in thousands):      
NYSE equity options volume3,226
 2,269
 42 % 3,070
 2,348
 31 % 3,331
 3,524
 (5)%
Total equity options volume17,657
 14,505
 22 % 16,505
 14,098
 17 % 17,331
 19,578
 (11)%
NYSE share of total equity options18.3% 15.6% 2.6 pts
 18.6% 16.7% 1.9 pts
 19.2% 18.0% 1.2 pts
                 
Revenue capture or rate per contract:                 
Cash products revenue capture (per 100 shares)$0.051 $0.051 0 % $0.048 $0.051 (6)%
Cash equities rate per contract (per 100 shares) $0.045 $0.053 (15)%
Equity options rate per contract$0.13 $0.16 (21)% $0.12 $0.14 (14)% $0.12 $0.13 (3)%
Handled volume represents the total number of shares of equity securities, ETFs and crossing session activity internally matched on our exchanges or routed to and executed on an external market center. Matched volume represents the total number of shares of equity securities, ETFs and crossing session activity executed on our exchanges.
Transaction-Based Expenses
Our equities and equity options markets pay fees to the SEC pursuant to Section 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act. Section 31 fees are recorded on a gross basis as a component of transaction and clearing fee revenue. These Section 31 fees are designedassessed to recover the government’s costs of supervising and regulating the securities markets and securities professionals.professionals and are subject to change. We, in turn, collect corresponding activity assessment fees which are included in transaction and clearing revenues in our consolidated statements of income, from member organizations clearing or settling trades on the equities and options exchanges, and recognize these amounts in our transaction and clearing revenues when invoiced. The activity assessment fees are designed so that they areto equal to the Section 31 fees that are included in transaction-based expenses in our consolidated statements of income.fees. As a result, activity assessment fees and the corresponding Section 31 fees do not have an impact on our net income. Activity assessmentincome, although the timing of payment by us may vary from collections. Section 31 fees receivedwere $69 million and $121 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. The fees we collect are included in cash at the time of receipt and as required by law,we remit the amount dueamounts to the SEC semi-annually as required. The total amount is remitted semi-annuallyincluded in accrued liabilities and recordedwas $70 million as an accrued liability until paid. As of September 30, 2018, the accrued liability related to the un-remitted SectionMarch 31, fees was $21 million.2019.
We also incurmake liquidity payments made to cash and options trading customers, andas well as routing charges made to other exchanges thatwhich are included in transaction-based expenses. We incur routing charges when we do not have the best bid or offer in the market for a security that a customer is trying to buy or sell on one of our securities exchanges. In that case, we route the customer’s order to the external market center that displays the best bid or offer. The external market center charges us a fee per share (denominated in tenths of a cent per share) for routing to its system. We record routing charges on a

gross basis as a component of transaction and clearing fee revenue.

Cash liquidity payments, routing and clearing fees were $244 million and $234 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Operating Expenses, Operating Income and Operating Margin
Our Trading and Clearing segment operating expenses increased $60 million and $32$21 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019, from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017.2018. See “- Consolidated Operating Expenses” below for a discussion of the significant changes in our operating expenses. Our Trading and Clearing segment operating income increased $92 million and $3 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, from the comparable periods in 2017. Trading and Clearing segment operating margins were 63% for both the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 and59% and 62% for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
Our Trading and Clearing segment adjusted operating expenses were $592 million and $540 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Our Trading and Clearing segment adjusted operating expenses were $206 million and $181decreased $4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. OurMarch 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 2018. Trading and Clearing segment adjusted operating income was $1.2 billion and $1.1 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Our Trading and Clearing segment adjusted operating income was $352 million and $342 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Our Trading and Clearing segment adjusted operating margins were 66% for both the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017. Our Trading and Clearing segment adjusted operating margins were 63% and 65% for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Our Trading and 2017, respectively,Clearing segment adjusted operating expenses were $205 million and the decrease from the prior year period is primarily related to our acquisitions during$191 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018.March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Our Trading and Clearing segment adjusted operating income was $408 million and $405 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Our Trading and Clearing segment adjusted operating margins were 67% and 68% for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. See “- Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.
Data and Listings Segment
The following charts and table present our selected statements of income data for our Data and Listings segment (dollars in millions and YTD represents the nine-month periods ended September 30th)millions):
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(1) The adjusted numbers in the charts above are calculated by excluding items that are not reflective of our cash operations and core business performance. As a result, these adjusted numbers are not calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP. See “- Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.
Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
   Three Months Ended September 30,   Three Months Ended March 31,  
2018 2017 Change 2018 2017 Change 2019 2018 Change
Revenues:                 
Pricing and analytics$779
 $722
 8 % $263
 $242
 9 % $266
 $254
 5%
Exchange data433
 416
 4
 146
 136
 7
Exchange data and feeds 176
 164
 7
Desktops and connectivity364
 421
 (13) 121
 140
 (13) 104
 102
 2
Data services1,576
 1,559
 1
 530
 518
 2
 546
 520
 5
Listings332
 322
 3
 112
 105
 7
 111
 109
 2
Revenues1,908
 1,881
 1
 642
 623
 3
 657
 629
 4
Other operating expenses810
 822
 (1) 273
 265
 3
 277
 268
 3
Acquisition-related transaction and integration costs25
 26
 (8) 
 3
 n/a
 
 12
 n/a
Depreciation and amortization274
 262
 5
 95
 84
 12
 100
 88
 14
Operating expenses1,109
 1,110
 
 368
 352
 5
 377
 368
 3
Operating income$799
 $771
 4 % $274
 $271
 1 % $280
 $261
 7%
Data Services Revenues
Our Data and Listings segment represents subscription-based, or recurring, revenues from data services and listings services offered across our trading and clearing businesses and ICE Data Services. Through ICE Data Services, we generate revenues from a range of global financial and commodity markets, including pricing and reference data, exchange data, analytics, feeds, index services, desktops and connectivity solutions. Through NYSE, NYSE American and NYSE Arca, we generate listings revenue related to the provision of listings services for public companies and ETFs, and related corporate actions for listed companies.
For the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, 7% and 10%8%, respectively, of our Data and Listings segment revenues were billed in pounds sterling or euros and for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, 7% and 10%, respectively, were billed in pounds sterling or euros (all relating to our data services revenues). As the pound sterling or euro exchange rate changes, the U.S. equivalent of revenues denominated in foreign currencies changes accordingly. Due to the weakening offluctuations in the U.S. dollar compared to the pound sterling and euro, our Data and Listings segment revenues were $9$4 million higherlower for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 20172018.
Our data services revenues are primarily subscription-based and there was no significant impactincreased 5% for the three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 2017.
Data Services Revenues
Our pricing and analytics services consist of an extensive set of independent continuous and end-of-day evaluated pricing services focused primarily on fixed income and international equity securities, valuation services, reference data, and multi-asset class portfolio and risk management analytics. We also serve as an administrator of regulated benchmarks. Our index services offer a range of products across fixed income, energy, equities, ETFs and other asset classes to provide the methodology, pricing and licensing of indices and benchmarks.
Our exchange data2018. The increase in revenues primarily represent subscription fees for the provision of our market data that is created from activity on our exchanges, which is driven by the products and technology we develop to deliver real-time views of markets and related information. In our derivatives markets, exchange data revenues relate to subscription fees charged for customer and license access from third party data vendors, or quote vendors, and from end users, as well as view-only data access, direct access services, terminal access, daily indices, forward curves, and end-of-day reports.

We also earn exchange data revenues relating to our cash equity and options markets, and related data services. We collect cash trading market data fees principally for consortium-based data products and, to a lesser extent, for NYSE proprietary data products. Consortium-based data fees are determined by the securities industry plans and are charged to vendors based on their redistribution of data. Consortium-based data revenues (net of administrative costs) are distributed to participating securities markets on the basis of a formula set by the SEC under Regulation National Market System, or Regulation NMS. Last trade prices and quotes in NYSE-listed, NYSE American-listed, and NYSE Arca-listed securities are disseminated through “Tape A” and “Tape B,” which constitute the majority of our revenues from consortium-based market data revenues.
Our desktops and connectivity services comprise technology-based information platforms, feeds and connectivity solutions. These include trading applications, desktop solutions, data feeds and infrastructure to support trading, voice brokers and investment functions through our ICE Global Network. Our desktop and web-based applications deliver real-time market information, analytical and decision support tools to support trading and investment decisions. Through our consolidated feeds, clients receive market data from global exchanges, trading venues, news and data sources for exchange-traded and OTC markets. Our connectivity service, ICE Global Network, offers clients a secure, resilient, private multi-participant network that provides access to global exchanges and content service providers. Our infrastructure managed services solution also offers colocation space, direct exchange access, proximity hosting and support services that enable access to real-time exchange data, and facilitates low latency, secure electronic market access.
Our data services revenues increased 1% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and increased 2% for the three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, from the comparable periods in 2017,March 31, 2019 was primarily due to the strong retention rate of existing customers, the addition of new customers, increased purchases by existing customers and increases in pricing of our acquisitions of TMX Atriumproducts.
Pricing and Analytics: Our pricing and analytics revenues increased 5% for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in May 2017 and Bank of America Merrill Lynch's, or BofAML, Global Research Division’s index business2018. The increase in October 2017 and the impact of foreign currency translation. These increases were offsetrevenue was driven by the divestituresstrong retention rate of IDMSexisting customers, the addition of new customers, increased purchases by existing customers and increases in pricing of our products.
Exchange Data and Feeds: Our exchange data and feeds revenues increased 7% for the three months ended March 201731, 2019, from the comparable period in 2018. The increase in revenue was driven by the strong retention rate of existing customers, the addition of new customers, increased purchases by existing customers and Trayport in December 2017 in oura larger share of the NMS Plan revenue.

Desktops and Connectivity: Our desktop and connectivity business.revenues increased 2% for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 2018 driven primarily by the addition of our July 2018 acquisition of TMC Bonds and increases in pricing of our products.
Annual Subscription Value
Annual Subscription Value, or ASV, represents, at a point in time, the data services revenues subscribed for the succeeding 12 months. ASV does not include new sales, contract terminations or price changes that may occur during that twelve-month12-month period. ASV also does not include certain data services revenue streams that are not subscription-based. Revenue from ASV businesses has historically represented approximately 90% of our data revenues. Organic ASV is adjusted for acquisitions, divestitures or discontinued businesses to provide an organic view of comparable performance on a year-over-year basis at the beginning of the quarter, and is calculated using the current spot rate. Prior period comparisons have been adjusted to use the current period spot rates for both the pound sterling and the euro. Thus, while it is an indicative forward-looking metric, it does not provide a growth forecast of the next 12 months of data services revenues.
As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, ASV was $1.902 billion. Organic ASV was $1.863$1.979 billion, which increased 6.6%5.6% compared to the organic ASV as of September 30, 2017. Underpinning this growth is strength in both our pricing and analytics business and our connectivity services.March 31, 2018. This does not adjust for year-over-year foreign exchange fluctuations or impacts of acquisitions.
Listings Revenues
We recognize listingsListings revenues in our securities markets arise from fees applicable to companies listed on our cash equities exchanges original listing fees and annual listing fees. Original listing fees consist of two components: initial listing fees and fees related to corporate actions. Initial listing fees, subject to a minimum and maximum amount, are based on the number of shares that a company initially lists. All listings fees are billed upfront and the identified performance obligations are satisfied over time. Upon our January 1, 2018 adoption of the ASC 606 accounting framework, revenueRevenue related to the investor relations performance obligation is recognized ratably over a two-year period, with the remaining revenue recognized ratably over time as customers continue to list on our exchanges, which is generally estimated to be over a period of up to nine years for NYSE and up to five years for NYSE Arca and NYSE American.
In addition, we earn corporate actions-related listing fees in connection with actions involving the issuance of new shares, such as stock splits, rights issues and sales of additional securities, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Listings fees related to other corporate actions are considered contract modifications of our listing contracts and are recognized ratably over time as customers continue to list on our exchanges, which is generally estimated to be a period of six years for NYSE and three years for NYSE Arca and NYSE American.
Our listings revenues increased 2% for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 2018 due to changes in market conditions for IPOs.
Operating Expenses, Operating Income and Operating Margin
Our Data and Listings segment operating expenses decreased $1 million and increased $16$9 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019, from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017.2018. See “- Consolidated Operating Expenses” below for a discussion of the significant changes in our operating expenses. Our Data and Listings segment operating income increased $28

million and $3$19 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019 from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017.2018. Our Data and Listings segment operating margins were 43% and 42% and 41% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and 43% for both the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017.respectively. The operating income and operating margin increases were driven by the revenue increases discussed above.

Our Data and Listings segment adjusted operating expenses were $926 million for both the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 and $315$323 million and $298$303 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. Our Data and Listings segment adjusted operating income was $982$334 million and $955 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $327 million and $325$326 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. Our Data and Listings segment adjusted operating margins were 51% for both the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, and 51% and 52% for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. See “-“— Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.








Consolidated Operating Expenses
The following chart and table presentpresents our consolidated operating expenses (dollars in millions and YTD represents the nine-month periods ended September 30th)millions):chart-f84090580bed9fab521.jpg
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  Three Months Ended March 31,  
  2019 2018 Change
Compensation and benefits $248
 $240
 3%
Professional services 33
 30
 13
Acquisition-related transaction and integration costs 
 12
 n/a
Technology and communication 107
 105
 1
Rent and occupancy 17
 17
 5
Selling, general and administrative 42
 33
 24
Depreciation and amortization 158
 138
 15
Total operating expenses $605
 $575
 5%

The majority of our operating expenses do not vary directly with changes in our volume and revenues, except for certain technology and communication expenses, including data acquisition costs, and a portion of our compensation expense that is tied directly to our data sales or overall financial performance.
 Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
   Three Months Ended September 30,  
 2018 2017 Change 2018 2017 Change
Compensation and benefits$732
 $717
 2 % $251
 $234
 7 %
Professional services91
 94
 (3) 32
 30
 8
Acquisition-related transaction and integration costs33
 27
 23
 6
 4
 74
Technology and communication320
 294
 9
 107
 99
 9
Rent and occupancy50
 52
 (4) 17
 17
 (2)
Selling, general and administrative109
 117
 (7) 37
 38
 (3)
Depreciation and amortization429
 404
 6
 148
 128
 15
Total operating expenses$1,764
 $1,705
 4 % $598
 $550
 9 %

We expect our operating expenses to increase in absolute terms in future periods in connection with the growth of our business, and to vary from year-to-year based on the type and level of our acquisitions, our integrations and other investments.
For the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, 12% and 2017, 13% and 15%14%, respectively, of our consolidated operating expenses were incurred in pounds sterling or euros and 13% and 14%, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 were billed in pounds sterling or euros. As the pound sterling or euro exchange rate changes, the U.S. equivalent of operating expenses denominated in foreign currencies changes accordingly. Due to the weakening offluctuations in the U.S. dollar compared to the pound sterling and euro, our consolidated operating expenses increased $14decreased $5 million and were flat, for the nine months ended and the three months ended September 30, 2018, respectively,March 31, 2019, from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017.2018. See Item 3 “-“— Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk - Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk” below for additional informationinformation.
Compensation and Benefits Expenses
Compensation and benefits expense is our most significant operating expense and includes non-capitalized employee wages, bonuses, non-cash or stock compensation, certain severance costs, benefits and employer taxes. The bonus component of our compensation and benefits expense is based on both our financial performance and the impactindividual employee performance. The performance-based restricted stock compensation expense is also based on our financial performance. Therefore, our compensation and benefits expense will vary year-to-year based on our financial performance and fluctuations in the number of currency fluctuations.employees.
As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, we had 5,0425,090 employees, andcompared to 4,879 as of September 30, 2017, we had 5,100 employees.March 31, 2018. Our employee headcount decreasedincreased over the last year primarily due to employee departures in connection with the divestiture of Trayport in December 2017 and continued employee terminations associated with our integration of Interactive Data. These decreases in our employee headcount were partially offset by new employees related to the acquisitions of CHX Holdings, Inc. and TMC Bonds in July 2018 BondPoint in January 2018, ICE NGX in December 2017 and BofAML’s Global Research Division’s index businessMERS in October 2017. 2018. Our compensation and benefits expenses increased for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 2018 primarily due to new employees related to these acquisitions. We incurred employee severance and retention costs of $11 million and $9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Non-cash compensation expenses recognized in our consolidated financial statements for employee stock options and restricted stock were $93 million and $102$29 million for both the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and 2017, respectively,2018.
Professional Services Expenses
Professional services expense includes fees for consulting services received on strategic and $32 milliontechnology initiatives, temporary labor, as well as regulatory, legal and $34 millionaccounting fees, and may fluctuate as a result of changes in consulting and technology services, temporary labor, and regulatory, accounting and legal proceedings.
Professional services expenses increased for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 2018 primarily due to legal fees associated with Brexit, regulatory and 2017, respectively. legal matters relating to the NYSE markets, litigation matters including the class action lawsuits in which the company is a defendant and consulting work related to strategic initiatives.
Acquisition-Related Transaction and Integration Costs
We incurred employee severancedid not incur any significant acquisition-related transaction and retentionintegrations costs of $30 million and $16 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $13 million and $8 million forduring the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
Our compensation and benefits expenses increased duringMarch 31, 2019. For the nine and three months ended September 30,March 31, 2018, from the comparable periodswe incurred $12 million in 2017 primarily due to employee severance and retention costs, partially offset by the net decrease in our employee headcount and a decrease in non-cash compensation expense.
We incurred acquisition-related transaction and integration costs, of $33 million and $27 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2018, and 2017 respectively, and $6 million and $4 million during the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, primarily relating to employee termination,terminations and lease terminationterminations in connection with our integrations of Interactive Data, Securities Evaluations and Credit Market Analysis, and professional services costs resulting from our 2018 acquisitions. The integration of Interactive Data was completed by June 30, 2018.
We expect to continue to explore and pursue various potential acquisitions as well asand other strategic opportunities to strengthen our competitive position and support our growth. As a $5 million banker success feeresult, we may incur acquisition-related transaction costs in connection with our acquisition of TMC Bonds.future periods. See “- Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.
Technology and communicationCommunication Expenses
Technology support services consist of costs for running our wholly-owned data centers, hosting costs paid to third-party data centers and maintenance of our computer hardware and software required to support our technology and cybersecurity. These costs are driven by system capacity, functionality and redundancy requirements. Communication expenses whichconsist of costs for network connections for our electronic platforms, telecommunications costs, and fees paid for access to external market data. This expense also includeincludes licensing and other fee agreement expenses which may be impacted by growth

in electronic contract volume, our capacity requirements, changes in the number of telecommunications hubs and connections with customers to access our electronic platforms directly.
Technology and communications expenses increased for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017,2018, primarily due to increased hosting costs, maintenance costs related to our recent2018 acquisitions of CHX, TMC Bonds and higher feesMERS, and partially offset by lower revenue share agreements related to revenue sharing agreements.our product offering. 
Rent and Occupancy Expenses
Rent and occupancy expense relates to leased and owned property and includes rent, maintenance, real estate taxes, utilities and other related costs. We have significant operations located in and around Atlanta, New York and London with smaller offices located throughout the world.
Rent and occupancy expenses increased for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 2018 primarily due to increased costs related to our 2018 acquisitions of CHX, TMC Bonds and MERS.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased for the nineinclude marketing, advertising, public relations, insurance, bank service charges, dues and three months ended September 30, 2018, from the comparable periods in 2017, primarily due to $14 millionsubscriptions, travel and $4 million in accruals made during the nineentertainment, non-income taxes and three months ended September 30, 2017, respectively, relating to SEC investigationsother general and inquiries. See Part II, Item 1 “- Legal Proceedings” below for additional information on the accruals for these matters.administrative costs.
We recorded depreciationSelling, general and administrative expenses on our fixed assets of $214 million and $192 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $75 million and $64 millionincreased for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. The increase in depreciation expense recorded during the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017 is2018, primarily due to costs related to our 2018 acquisitions of CHX, TMC Bonds, and MERS, as well as travel and entertainment, non-income taxes and other general and administrative costs.
Depreciation and Amortization Expenses
Depreciation and amortization expense results from depreciation resulting from increasedof long-lived assets such as buildings, leasehold improvements, planes, furniture, fixtures and equipment over their estimated useful lives. This expense includes amortization of intangible assets obtained in our acquisitions of businesses, as well as on various licensing agreements, over their estimated useful lives. Intangible assets subject to amortization consist primarily of customer relationships, trading products with finite lives and technology. This expense also includes amortization of internally-developed and purchased software development.over its estimated useful life.
We recorded amortization expenses on the intangible assets acquired as part of our acquisitions, as well as on other intangible assets, of $211$77 million and $206 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $73 million and $64$69 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. Amortization expenses recorded for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, include a $4 million impairment loss on exchange registration intangible assets related to our closure of ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada. Amortization expense increased duringfor the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019, from the same prior year periodscomparable period in 2018, as a result of ICE NGX, BondPoint,CHX, TMC Bonds BofAML Indices and TMX AtriumMERS intangible assets. This increase in amortization expense was partially offset by a decrease in amortization
We recorded depreciation expenses on our Russell license intangiblefixed assets duringof $81 million and $69 million for the nine and three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Depreciation expense increased for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from the same prior year periods because they became fully amortized, as well as amortization expense recorded for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 as a result of the net loss of $6 million on the sale of NYSE Governance Services.

comparable period in 2018 primarily due to depreciation resulting from increased software development and networking equipment.
Consolidated Non-Operating Income (Expense)
Income and expenses incurred through activities outside of our core operations are considered non-operating. The following table presents our non-operating income (expenses) (dollars in millions):
Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
   Three Months Ended September 30,  Three Months Ended March 31,  
2018 2017 Change 2018 2017 Change2019 2018 Change
Other income (expense):                
Interest income$9
 $4
 139 %
Interest expense$(173) $(137) 26% $(66) $(47) 39%(71) (52) 35
Other income, net48
 205
 (77) 18
 14
 2623
 15
 44
Total other income (expense), net$(125) $68
 n/a
 $(48) $(33) 44%$(39) $(33) 19 %
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest$(24) $(22) 11% $(7) $(6) 14%$(8) $(10) (15)%



Interest Income
We recognized interest income on our investments of $9 million and $4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Interest income increased for the three months ended March 31, 2019, from the comparable period in 2018 primarily due to a rise in short-term interest rates on various investments.
Interest Expense
Interest expense increased for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019, from the comparable periodsperiod in 2017,2018 primarily due to an increase in the principal and coupon of our bond refinancing in August 2018, as well as a rise in short-term interest rates impacting our Commercial Paper Program, along with interest expense related to our bond refinancing in August 2017 and August 2018.Program.
We recognized equityOther income, relating to our ownership in MERS, and The Options Clearing Corporation, or OCC, in other income, which was $27 million and $23 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $13 million and $10 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. We account for these investments as equity investments.
In connection with Cetip’s merger with B3 on March 29, 2017, we recognized a $176 million realized investment gain in other income for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and we recognized $9 million in foreign exchange losses and transaction expenses in other expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. We recognized dividend income received relating to our investment in Cetip in other income of $5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. We no longer receive any dividends from Cetip subsequent to its sale in the first quarter of 2017.net
In connection with our equity investment in Euroclear, we recognized dividend income of $15 million forduring the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2018, which is included in other income.
In connection with our adoption of ASU 2017-07, we are recognizing We did not receive a Euroclear dividend during the other components of net benefit cost of our defined benefit plans in the income statement outside of operating income on a full retrospective basis. The combined net periodic (expense) benefit of these plans was ($6 million) and $6 million for the ninethree months ended September 30,March 31, 2019. We expect to receive a Euroclear dividend during the three months ended December 31, 2019.
Our equity method investments include the OCC, and prior to purchasing the remaining minority stake in MERS in October 2018, our majority investment in MERS. We recognized $27 million and 2017, respectively, and ($2 million) and $2$4 million in equity income related to these investments for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, as other income.
Prior to October 2018, we owned a majority stake in MERS and 2017, respectively.treated it as an equity method investment because we did not have the ability to control its operations. On October 3, 2018, we completed the purchase of all remaining interests of MERS. On that date, we ceased recording equity income of MERS. MERS is now part of ICE Mortgage Services.
We own a 40% interest in the OCC, which is regulated by the SEC and the CFTC. On February 13, 2019, the SEC disapproved the OCC capital plan that was established in 2015. Following the SEC disapproval, the OCC also announced they will not be providing a refund to clearing members or declaring a dividend to shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2018, which resulted in higher reported OCC 2018 net income than we had estimated. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we recognized $27 million of equity earnings as our share of estimated OCC profits, including $19 million related to 2018 earnings. Refer to Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements, included in this Form 10-Q for additional details on our OCC investment.
We incurred foreign currency transaction losses of $1 million and $2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $1$4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017. ThereMarch 31, 2019. This was no significant foreignprimarily attributable to the fluctuations of the pound sterling and euro relative to the U.S. dollar. Foreign currency transaction impactgains or losses were flat for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2018. Foreign currency gains and losses are recorded in other income, net, when the settlement of foreign currency assets, liabilities and payables that occur through our foreign operations that are received in non-functional currencies due to the increase or decrease in the period-end foreign currency exchange rates between periods. See Item 3 “- Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk - Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk” included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report for more information on these items.
Non-controlling Interest
For consolidated subsidiaries in which our ownership is less than 100%, and for which we have control over the assets and liabilities and the management of the entity, the outside stockholders’stockholders' interests are shown as non-controlling interest in our consolidated financial statements. As of September 30, 2018, non-controlling interest includesinterests. Non-controlling interests include those related to the operating results of our CDS clearing subsidiaries in which non-ICE limited partners held an ownership interest in our CDS clearing subsidiaries. During September 2018, we purchased 3.2% of ownership interest of a non-ICE limited partner, and the remaining non-ICE limited partners hold a 26.7% ownership interest as of September 30, 2018.March 31, 2019.

In December 2018, Bakkt Holdings, LLC, or Bakkt, was capitalized with $183 million in initial funding with ICE as the majority owner, along with a group of other minority investors. We hold a call option over these interests subject to certain terms. Similarly, the non-ICE partners in Bakkt hold a put option to require us to repurchase their interests subject to certain terms. These minority interests are reflected as redeemable non-controlling interests in temporary equity within our consolidated balance sheet.
Consolidated Income Tax Provision
Consolidated income tax expense was $381$134 million and $540 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $89 million and $186$143 million for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. The change in consolidated income tax expense between periods is primarily due to the tax impact of changes in our pre-tax income and the changes in our effective tax rate each period. Our effective tax rate was 21% and 29% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and 16% and 33%23% for the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2019 and 2018, and 2017, respectively. The effective tax ratesrate for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 as compared to the same periodsperiod in 2017 were2018 was lower primarily due to the enactmentreduced U.S. federal and state income taxes on our non-U.S. income under certain international tax provisions enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or TCJA, in December 2017, whichand

deferred tax benefits related to state apportionment changes. The reduced the U.S. federal corporateand state income tax rate from 35%taxes are a result of clarifications provided by subsequent federal and state legislative or administrative guidance to 21% effective January 1, 2018. In addition, for the three months ended September 30, 2018, the effective tax rate was further reduced due to deferred

tax benefits associated with the U.S. tax rate reduction resulting from changes in estimates, along with additional tax benefits associated with our salethose international provisions of Trayport in 2017.
We recorded our income tax provision based on the TCJA and related state provisions, as enacted as of September 30, 2018. Any potential federal or state administrative and/or legislative adjustments to certain provisions in the TCJA and related state provisions have not been taken into consideration.

provisions.
Quarterly Results of Operations
The following quarterly unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income data havehas been prepared on substantially the same basis as our audited consolidated financial statements and includeincludes all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair presentation of our consolidated results of operations for the quarters presented. The historical results for any quarter do not necessarily indicate the results expected for any future period. The following table sets forth quarterly consolidated statements of income data (in millions):
Three Months Ended,Three Months Ended,
September 30, 2018 June 30, 2018 March 31, 2018 December 31,
2017
 September 30, 2017March 31, 2019 December 31,
2018
 September 30, 2018 June 30, 2018 March 31, 2018
Revenues:                  
Energy futures and options contracts$223
 $250
 $235
 $227
 $223
$229
 $257
 $223
 $250
 $235
Agricultural and metals futures and options contracts58
 74
 65
 49
 49
62
 54
 58
 74
 65
Interest rates and other financial futures and options contracts77
 94
 91
 72
 82
Financial futures and options contracts83
 92
 77
 94
 91
Cash equities and equity options335
 389
 438
 365
 355
390
 462
 335
 389
 438
Fixed income and credit87
 83
 56
 45
 56
OTC and other transactions67
 57
 69
 45
 49
11
 13
 11
 12
 13
Total transaction and clearing, net760
 864
 898
 758
 758
862
 961
 760
 864
 898
Pricing and analytics263
 262
 254
 248
 242
266
 264
 263
 262
 254
Exchange data146
 144
 143
 140
 136
Exchange data and feeds176
 174
 168
 164
 164
Desktops and connectivity121
 120
 123
 137
 140
104
 101
 99
 100
 102
Total data services530
 526
 520
 525
 518
546
 539
 530
 526
 520
Listings112
 111
 109
 104
 105
111
 112
 112
 111
 109
Other revenues61
 55
 53
 54
 54
64
 65
 61
 55
 53
Total Revenues1,463
 1,556
 1,580
 1,441
 1,435
1,583
 1,677
 1,463
 1,556
 1,580
Transaction-based expenses263
 310
 355
 295
 289
313
 369
 263
 310
 355
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses1,200
 1,246
 1,225
 1,146
 1,146
1,270
 1,308
 1,200
 1,246
 1,225
Compensation and benefits251
 241
 240
 229
 234
248
 262
 251
 241
 240
Professional services32
 29
 30
 27
 30
33
 40
 32
 29
 30
Acquisition-related transaction and integration costs6
 15
 12
 9
 4

 1
 6
 15
 12
Technology and communication107
 108
 105
 103
 99
107
 112
 107
 108
 105
Rent and occupancy17
 16
 17
 17
 17
17
 18
 17
 16
 17
Selling, general and administrative37
 39
 33
 38
 38
42
 42
 37
 39
 33
Depreciation and amortization148
 143
 138
 131
 128
158
 157
 148
 143
 138
Total operating expenses598
 591
 575
 554
 550
605
 632
 598
 591
��575
Operating income602
 655
 650
 592
 596
665
 676
 602
 655
 650
Other income (expense), net (1)
(48) (44) (33) 79
 (33)(39) 62
 (48) (44) (33)
Income tax expense (benefit) (2)
89
 149
 143
 (568) 186
Income tax expense (benefit)134
 119
 89
 149
 143
Net income$465
 $462
 $474
 $1,239
 $377
$492
 $619
 $465
 $462
 $474
Net income attributable to non-controlling interest(7) (7) (10) (6) (6)(8) (8) (7) (7) (10)
Net income attributable to Intercontinental, Exchange, Inc.$458
 $455
 $464
 $1,233
 $371
$484
 $611
 $458
 $455
 $464

(1) Other income (expense), net for the three months ended December 31, 20172018 includes a $110 million gain onin connection with our saleacquisition of Trayport.MERS.
(2) The decrease in the income tax expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2017 is primarily due to a $764 million deferred tax benefit associated with future U.S. income tax reductions.


Liquidity and Capital Resources
Below are charts that reflect our capital allocation. The acquisition and integration costs in the chart below includes cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash received for divestitures, cash paid for investments, cash paid for non-controlling interest and redeemable non-controlling interest, and the acquisition-related transaction and integration costs, net of divestitures, in each period (YTD represents the nine-month periods ended September 30th):period.
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We have financed our operations, growth and cash needs primarily through income from operations and borrowings under our various debt facilities. Our principal capital requirements have been to fund capital expenditures, working capital, strategic acquisitions and investments, stock repurchases, dividends to our stockholders and the continued development of our technology platforms that support our businesses.platforms. We believe that our cash on hand and cash flows from operations will be sufficient to repay our outstanding debt, but we may also need to incur additional debt or issue additional equity securities in the future. See “- Future Capital Requirements” below.
Our Commercial Paper Program enables us to borrow efficiently at reasonable short-term interest rates and provides us with the flexibility to de-lever using our strong annual cash flows from operating activities whenever our leverage becomes elevated as a result of investment or acquisition activities. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we repaid aWe had net amountissuances of $35$54 million under our Commercial Paper Program. See “- Debt” below.
See “- Recent Developments” above for a discussion ofProgram during the acquisitions and investments that we made during and subsequent to the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018. These cash acquisitions and investments were funded primarily from borrowing under our Commercial Paper Program along with cash flows from operations.March 31, 2019.
Upon maturity of old issuances ofour commercial paper and to the extent old issuances are not repaid by cash on hand, we are exposed to the rollover risk of not being able to issue new commercial paper. To mitigate the rolloverthis risk, we maintain an undrawn back-stop bank revolving credit facility for an aggregate amount equaling at any timewhich meets or exceeds the amount issued under our Commercial Paper Program.Program at any time. If we were not able to issue new commercial paper, we have the option of drawing on the back-stop revolving facility. However, electing to do so would result in higher interest expense. SeeFor a discussion of our Commercial Paper Program and other indebtedness, see “- Debt” below.

Consolidated cash and cash equivalents were $515$653 million and $535$724 million as of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2017, respectively,2018, respectively. We had $1.2 billion and $1.1 billion in short-term and long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents were $1.1 billion and $1.0 billion as of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2017,2018, respectively. We consider all short-term, highly-liquid investments with original maturity dates of three months or less to be cash equivalents. We classify all investments with original maturity dates in excess of three months but less than one year as short-term investments and all investments that we intend to hold for more than one year as long-term investments. Short-term and long-term investments are included in other current and other non-current assets, respectively. Cash and cash equivalents that are not available for general use, either due to regulatory requirements or through restrictions in specific agreements, are classified as restricted cash and cash equivalents and investments.
As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, the amount of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents held by our non-U.S. subsidiaries was $292$241 million.
In September 2017, our BoardOur cash and cash equivalents and financial investments are managed as a global treasury portfolio of Directors approved an aggregatenon-speculative financial instruments that are readily convertible into cash, such as overnight deposits, term deposits, money market funds, mutual funds for treasury investments, short duration fixed income investments and other money market instruments, thus ensuring high liquidity of $1.2 billion for future repurchasesfinancial assets. We may invest a portion of our common stock with no fixed expiration date that became effective on January 1, 2018. We expect funding for any stock repurchases to come from ourcash in excess of short-term operating cash flowneeds in investment-grade marketable debt securities, including government or borrowings under ourgovernment-sponsored agencies and corporate debt facilities or our Commercial Paper Program. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we repurchased 14,394,028 shares of our outstanding common stock at a cost of $1.1 billion, excluding shares withheld upon vesting of equity awards. These repurchases are held in treasury stock and were completed on the open market and under our Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. As of September 30, 2018, the remaining board authorization permits repurchases of up to $141 million of our common stock. securities.
In September 2018, our Board of Directors approved an aggregate of $2.0 billion for future repurchases of our common stock with no fixed expiration date that becomesbecame effective January 1, 2019. ReferWe expect this authorization to Note 8provide us with capacity for buybacks over six quarters and flexibility to act opportunistically. We expect funding for any share repurchases to come from our consolidated financial statementsoperating cash flow or borrowings under our Commercial Paper Program or our debt facilities.
Repurchases of our common stock may be made from time to time on the open market, through established trading plans, in privately-negotiated transactions or otherwise, in accordance with all applicable securities laws, rules and related notes, whichregulations. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, we repurchased 5.9 million shares of our outstanding common stock at a cost of $440 million, including 4.6 million shares at a cost of $340 million under our Rule 10b5-1 trading plan and 1.3 million shares at a cost of $100 million on the open market. For the three months ended March 31, 2018, we repurchased 4.1 million shares of our outstanding common stock at a cost of $300 million. The shares repurchased are included elsewhereheld in this Quarterly Report,treasury stock and were completed on the open market and under Rule 10b5-1 trading plans.
From time to time, we enter into Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, as authorized by our Board of Directors, to govern some or all of the repurchases of our shares of common stock. The timing and extent of future repurchases that are not made pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan will be at our discretion and will depend upon many conditions. In making a determination regarding any stock repurchases, management considers multiple factors, including overall stock market conditions, our common stock price movements, the remaining amount authorized for more informationrepurchases by our Board of Directors, the potential impact of a stock repurchase program on our corporate debt ratings, our expected free cash flow and working capital needs, our current and future planned strategic growth initiatives and other potential uses of our cash and capital resources.
We may discontinue stock repurchase program.repurchases at any time and may amend or terminate a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan at any time. The approval of our Board of Directors for the share repurchases does not obligate us to acquire any particular amount of our common stock. In addition, our Board of Directors may increase or decrease the amount of capacity we have for repurchases from time to time.
Cash FlowsFlow
The following tables presenttable presents the major components of net increases (decreases)changes in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents (in millions):
Nine Months Ended September 30,Three Months Ended March 31,
2018 20172019 2018
Net cash provided by (used in):      
Operating activities$1,735
 $1,410
$654
 $573
Investing activities(1,617) 207
(40) (755)
Financing activities(19) (1,534)(596) 270
Effect of exchange rate changes(5) 9
1
 2
Net increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents$94
 $92
$19
 $90
In the fourth quarter of 2017, we adopted ASU 2016-18, which requires us to show the changes in the total of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents in the statement of cash flows. As a result, we no longer present transfers between cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents in the statement of cash flows. We have reclassified changes in restricted cash from cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities, to the total change in beginning and end-of-year total changes. Our statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 reflect this change.
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by operating activities primarily consists of net income adjusted for certain non-cash items, including depreciation and amortization and the effects of changes in working capital.
The $325$81 million increase in net cash provided by operating activities during the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 as compared to the prior period in 20172018 is primarily a result of the increase in our net income excluding our net non-cash gain ontiming of various payments such as transaction-related expenses and taxes. In relation to tax payments, due to Hurricane Irma, the sale of our Cetip investment of $114 million during the nine months ended September 30,Internal Revenue Service allowed Georgia-based companies to defer their fourth quarter federal estimated payment from December 2017 fluctuations in our working capital and less cash paid for income taxes during the nine months ended September 30,to January 2018, than in the comparable prior year period, and a $136 million contribution that was madewhich we elected to our pension plan in September 2017.do.
Investing Activities
Consolidated net cash provided by (used in)used in investing activities for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017March 31, 2019 primarily relates to purchases$26 million of capital expenditures, $39 million of capitalized software development expenditures, and a $44 million return of capital related to our equity investments,method investment in the OCC. Refer to Note 3 to our consolidated financial statements, included in this Form 10-Q for additional details on our OCC investment.
Consolidated net cash proceeds from our sale of Cetip, cash paidused in investing activities for acquisitions (net of cash received for divestitures) includingthe three months ended March 31, 2018 primarily relates to our January 2018 acquisition of BondPoint for $400 million, and our July 2018 acquisitionthe purchase of TMC Bonds for $701 million, and capital expenditures and capitalized software development costs. See “- Recent Developments” above. We received net cash proceeds from the sale of Cetip of $438 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2017.
We purchased an additional 5.1% stake in Euroclear for €246 million in cash ($304 million). We received cash from the divestitures, $14 million of IDMS and NYSE Governance Services, net of the cash paid for the TMX Atrium acquisition, of $9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. We had capital expenditures of $49and $37 million and $136 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and we hadof capitalized software development expenditures of $112 million and $104 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. expenditures.
The capital expenditures primarily relate to hardware/hardware and software purchases to continue the development and expansion of our electronic platforms, data services and clearing houses, and

leasehold improvements associated with the new and renovated office spaces in Atlanta, New York and London. The software development expenditures primarily relate to the continued development and expansion of our electronic trading platforms, data services and clearing houses.
Financing Activities
Consolidated net cash used in financing activities for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 primarily relates to $1.1 billion$440 million in repurchases of common stock, $600$54 million in repayments of the October 2018 Senior Notes, $417net borrowings under our Commercial Paper Program, $157 million in dividend payments to our stockholders $35 million in net repayments under our Commercial Paper Program, and $78$57 million in cash payments related to treasury shares received for restricted stock tax payments and stock options exercises, partially offset by $2.2 billion in net proceeds from the Newly-Issued Senior Notes, See “- Debt” below.exercises.
Consolidated net cash used inprovided by financing activities for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2018 primarily relates to $445$789 million in net repaymentsborrowings under our Commercial Paper Program, $850 million in repayments of 2.00% senior unsecured fixed rate NYSE Notes that were due in October 2017, $709partially offset by $300 million in repurchases of common stock, $358$140 million in dividend payments to our stockholders, and $85$72 million in cash payments related to treasury shares received for restricted stock tax payments and stock options exercises, partially offset by $985 million in net proceeds from the 2022 Senior Notes and 2027 Senior Notes offering.exercises.
Debt
Our total debt, including short-term and long-term debt, consisted of the following as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 (in millions):

As of 
September 30, 2018
 As of 
December 31, 2017
As of 
March 31, 2019
 As of 
December 31, 2018
Debt:      
Short-term debt:      
Commercial Paper$1,198
 $1,233
$1,005
 $951
2018 Senior Notes (2.50% senior unsecured notes due October 15, 2018)
 600
Total short-term debt1,198
 1,833
1,005
 951
Long-term debt:      
2020 Senior Notes (2.75% senior unsecured notes due December 1, 2020)1,245
 1,244
1,247
 1,246
2022 Senior Notes (2.35% senior unsecured notes due September 15, 2022)496
 495
496
 496
2023 Senior Notes (3.45% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2023)397
 
397
 397
2023 Senior Notes (4.00% senior unsecured notes due October 15, 2023)793
 791
793
 793
2025 Senior Notes (3.75% senior unsecured notes due December 1, 2025)1,243
 1,242
1,243
 1,243
2027 Senior Notes (3.10% senior unsecured notes due September 15, 2027)495
 495
496
 496
2028 Senior Notes (3.75% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2028)591
 
592
 591
2048 Senior Notes (4.25% senior unsecured notes due September 21, 2048)1,228
 
1,228
 1,228
Total long-term debt6,488
 4,267
6,492
 6,490
Total debt$7,686
 $6,100
$7,497
 $7,441
Amended Credit Facility
We have a $3.4 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility, pursuant toor the Credit Facility with a credit agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as primary administrative agent, issuing lender and swing-line lender, Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent, backup administrative agent and swing-line lender, and the lenders party thereto. On August 9, 2018, we agreed with the lenders to extend the final maturity date of the Amended Credit Facility from August 18, 2022 to August 9, 2023, and to make certain other changes.
2023. The Amended Credit Facility includes an option for us to propose an increase in the aggregate amount available for borrowing by up to $975 million, subject to the consent of the lenders funding the increase and certain other conditions. No amounts were outstanding under the Amended Credit Facility as of September 30, 2018. March 31, 2019.
As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, of the $3.4 billion that is currently available for borrowing under the Amended Credit Facility, $1.2$1.0 billion is required to back-stop the amount outstanding under our Commercial Paper Program and $105 million is required to support certain broker-dealer subsidiary commitments.
The amount required to back-stop the amounts outstanding under the Commercial Paper Program will fluctuate as we increase or decrease our commercial paper borrowings. The remaining $2.1$2.3 billion available under the Amended Credit Facility as of September 30, 2018 is available to us to use for working capital and general corporate purposes including, but not limited to, acting as a back-stop to future increases in the amounts outstanding under the Commercial Paper Program.

Commercial Paper Program
We have entered into a U.S. dollar commercial paper program, or the Commercial Paper Program. Our Commercial Paper ProgramIt is currently backed by the borrowing capacity available under the Amended Credit Facility, equal to the amount of the commercial paper that is issued and outstanding at any given point in time.as described above. The effective interest rate of commercial paper issuances does not materially differ from short-term interest rates (such as USD LIBOR). The fluctuation of these rates which fluctuate due to market conditions and as a result may impact our interest expense. During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, we repaid ahad net amountissuances of $35$54 millionunder the Commercial Paper Program, the proceeds of outstanding commercial paper.which were used for general corporate purposes.
Commercial paper notes of $1.2$1.0 billion with original maturities ranging from one to 8188 days were outstanding as of September 30, 2018 under our Commercial Paper Program. As of September 30, 2018, the weighted average interest rate on the $1.2 billion outstandingMarch 31, 2019 under our Commercial Paper Program, was 2.15%with a weighted average interest rate of 2.54% per annum withand a weighted average maturity of 2322 days.
Senior Notes
On August 13, 2018, we issued $2.25 billion in new aggregate senior notes. The senior notes comprise $400 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.45% 2023 Senior Notes, $600 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.750% 2028 Senior Notes,Committed Repo and $1.25 billion in aggregate principal amount of 4.250% 2048 Senior Notes. We used the net proceeds from the offering of the Newly-Issued Senior Notes for general corporate purposes, including to fund the redemption of the $600 million aggregate principal amount of 2.50% Senior Notes due October 2018 and to refinance all of our issuances under our Commercial Paper Program that resulted from acquisitions and investments in the last nine months.
Committed Contingent LiquidityFX Facilities
To provide a tool to address the liquidity needs of the ICE Clearing Housesour clearing houses and manage the liquidation of margin and guaranty fund deposits held in the form of cash and high quality sovereign debt, ICE Clear Europe, ICE Clear Credit and ICE Clear U.S.US have entered into Committed Repurchase Agreement Facilities, or Committed Repo. Additionally, ICE Clear Credit hasand ICE Clear Netherlands have entered into Committed FX Facilities to support these liquidity needs. As of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 the following facilities were in place:

ICE Clear Europe: $1.05$1.0 billion in Committed Repo to finance U.S. dollar, euro and pound sterling deposits.

ICE Clear Credit:$300 million in Committed Repo to finance U.S. dollar and euro deposits, €250 million in Committed Repo to finance euro deposits, and €1.9 billion in Committed FX Facilities to finance euro payment obligations.

ICE Clear U.S.:    $250Credit: $300 million in Committed Repo to finance U.S. dollar deposits.

ICE NGX maintains a guaranty fund utilizing a $100 million letter of credit that has been entered into with a major Canadian chartered bank and backed by a default insurance policy underwritten by EDC, a Canadian government agency. In the event of a participant default, where a participant’s collateral becomes depleted, any remaining shortfall would be covered by a draw down on the letter of credit following which ICE NGX would pay the first $15euro deposits, €250 million in losses per its deductibleCommitted Repo to finance euro deposits, and recover additional losses under the insurance policy up€1.9 billion in Committed FX Facilities to $100 million. Separately, because it is not our policyfinance euro payment obligations.
ICE Clear US: $250 million in Committed Repo to guaranty credit facilities of the finance U.S. dollar deposits.
ICE Clearing Houses which maintain contingent liquidity facilities secured by high quality liquid assets, during the three months ended March 31, 2018, we eliminated a $100Clear Netherlands: €10 million guaranty that we had previously provided ICE NGX.in Committed FX Facilities to finance euro payment obligations.

Future Capital Requirements
Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the rate of growth across our Trading and Clearing and Data and Listings segments, strategic plans and acquisitions, available sources for financing activities, required and discretionary technology and clearing initiatives, regulatory requirements, the timing and introduction of new products and enhancements to existing products, the geographic mix of our business and potential stock repurchases.
We currently expect to make aggregateincur capital expenditures (including operational and real estate capital expenditures) and to incur capitalized software development costs that are eligible for capitalization ranging in the aggregate between $270$290 million and $290$320 million for the year ended December 31, 2018,in 2019, which we believe will support the enhancement of our technology, business integration and the continued growth of our businesses.
Effective January 1, 2019, our Board of Directors approved an aggregate of $2.0 billion for repurchases of our common stock with no fixed expiration date. We expect this authorization to provide us with capacity for buybacks over six quarters and flexibility to act opportunistically. As of March 31, 2019, we had $1.6 billion authorized for future repurchases of our common stock. Refer to Note 9 to our consolidated financial statements, included in this Form 10-Q for additional details on our stock repurchase plan.
Our Board of Directors has adopted a quarterly dividend declaration policy providing that the declaration of any dividends will be approved quarterly by the Board of Directorsboard or theits Audit Committee of the Board of Directors taking into account factors such factors as our evolving business model, prevailing business conditions and our financial results and capital requirements, without a predetermined annual net income payout ratio. During the thirdfirst quarter of 2018,2019, we paid a quarterly dividend of $0.24$0.275 per share of our common stock for an aggregate payout of $138 million.$157 million, which includes the payment of dividend equivalents on unvested employee restricted stock units. On October 31, 2018,May 2, 2019, we announced a $0.24$0.275 per share dividend for the fourthsecond quarter of 20182019 with the dividend payable on December 31, 2018June 28, 2019 to stockholders of record as of DecemberJune 14, 2018.2019.
As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, we had $7.7$7.5 billion in outstanding debt. We currently also have oura $3.4 billion Amended Credit Facility. After factoring in the $1.2 billion required to backstop our Commercial Paper Program and the $105 million required to support

certain broker-dealer subsidiary commitments as of September 30, 2018, $2.1 billion of our Amended Credit Facility, of which $2.3 billion is currently available for general corporate purposes. Other than the facilities discussed above for the ICE Clearing Houses, the Amended Credit Facility and our Commercial Paper Program are currently the only significant agreements or arrangements that we have with third parties for liquidity and capital resources.resources with third parties. In the event of any strategic acquisitions, mergers or investments, or if we are required to raise capital for any reason or desire to return capital to our stockholders, we may incur additional debt, issue additional equity to raise necessary funds, repurchase additional shares of our common stock or pay a dividend. However, we cannot provide assurance that such financing or transactions will be available or successful, or that the terms of such financing or transactions will be favorable to us. See “-"- Debt” above.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We use non-GAAPcertain financial measures internally to evaluate our performance and in makingmake financial and operational decisions. When vieweddecisions that are presented in conjunction witha manner that adjusts from their equivalent GAAP measures or that supplement the information provided by our GAAP results and the accompanying reconciliation, we believe that our presentation of these measures provides investors with greater transparency and a greater understanding of factors affecting our financial condition and results of operations than GAAP measures alone. In addition, we believe the presentation of these measures is useful to investors for period-to-period comparison of results because the items described below as adjustments to GAAP are not reflective of our core business performance. These financial measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative to, GAAP financial measures and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.measures. We use these adjusted results because we believe they more clearly highlight trends in our business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on GAAP financial measures, since these measures eliminate from our results specific financial items that have less bearing on our core operating performance.
We strongly recommenduse these measures in communicating certain aspects of our results and performance, including in this Quarterly Report, and believe that these measures, when viewed in conjunction with our GAAP results and the accompanying reconciliation, can provide investors with greater transparency and a greater understanding of factors affecting our financial condition and results of operations than GAAP measures alone. In addition, we believe the presentation of these measures is useful to investors for making period-to-period comparisons of results because the adjustments to GAAP are not reflective of our core business performance.
These financial measures are not presented in accordance with, or as an alternative to, GAAP financial measures and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. We encourage investors to review the GAAP financial measures included in this Quarterly Report, including our consolidated financial statements, to aid in their analysis and the notes thereto.understanding of our performance and in making comparisons.
AdjustedThe table below outlines our adjusted operating expenses, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, adjusted net income attributable to ICE common stockholders and adjusted earnings per share, for the periods presented belowwhich are non-GAAP measures that are calculated by adding or subtracting themaking adjustments described below, which arefor items we view as not reflective of our cash operations and core business performance,performance. These measures, including the adjustments and their related income tax effect and other tax adjustments (in millions, except for percentages and per share amounts):, are as follows:

 Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Consolidated
 Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
 Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
 Nine Months Ended 
 September 30,
 2018 2017 2018 2017 2018 2017
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$1,763
 $1,611
 $1,908
 $1,881
 $3,671
 $3,492
Operating expenses655
 595
 1,109
 1,110
 $1,764
 $1,705
Less: Interactive Data transaction and integration costs and
acquisition-related success fees
5
 
 24
 23
 29
 23
Less: Amortization of acquisition-related intangibles50
 41
 159
 155
 209
 196
Less: Impairment of exchange registration intangible assets on closure of ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada4
 
 
 
 4
 
Less: Impairment on divestiture of NYSE Governance Services
 
 
 6
 
 6
Less: Accruals relating to investigations and inquiries
 14
 
 
 
 14
Less: Employee severance costs related to ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada operations4
 
 
 
 4
 
Adjusted operating expenses$592
 $540
 $926
 $926
 $1,518
 $1,466
Operating income$1,108
 $1,016
 $799
 $771
 $1,907
 $1,787
Adjusted operating income$1,171
 $1,071
 $982
 $955
 $2,153
 $2,026
Operating margin63% 63% 42% 41% 52% 51%
Adjusted operating margin66% 66% 51% 51% 59% 58%
            
Net income attributable to ICE common stockholders        $1,377
 $1,293
Add: Interactive Data transaction and integration costs and acquisition-related success fees        29
 23
Add: Adjustment to reduce net gain on Trayport divestiture        1
 
Add: Amortization of acquisition-related intangibles        209
 196
Add: Impairment of exchange registration intangible assets on closure of ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada        4
 
Add: Employee severance costs related to ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada operations        4
 
Add: Impairment on divestiture of NYSE Governance Services        
 6
Add: Accruals relating to investigations and inquiries        
 14
Less: Cetip investment gain        
 (176)
Add: Foreign exchange loss and transaction expenses on sale of Cetip        
 9
Less: Income tax effect for the above items        (63) (54)
Less: Deferred tax adjustment from U.S. tax rate reduction        (12) 
Add: Deferred tax adjustment on acquisition-related intangibles        5
 12
Less: Other tax adjustments        (13) 
Adjusted net income attributable to ICE common stockholders        $1,541
 $1,323
            
Basic earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders        $2.39
 $2.19
Diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders        $2.37
 $2.17
            
Adjusted basic earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders        $2.67
 $2.24
Adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders        $2.65
 $2.22



Trading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment ConsolidatedTrading and Clearing Segment Data and Listings Segment Consolidated
Three Months Ended 
 September 30,
 Three Months Ended 
 September 30,
 Three Months Ended 
 September 30,
Three Months Ended 
 March 31,
 Three Months Ended 
 March 31,
 Three Months Ended 
 March 31,
2018 2017 2018 2017 2018 20172019 2018 2019 2018 2019 2018
Total revenues, less transaction-based expenses$558
 $523
 $642
 $623
 $1,200
 $1,146
$613
 $596
 $657
 $629
 $1,270
 $1,225
Operating expenses230
 198
 368
 352
 $598
 $550
228
 207
 377
 368
 $605
 $575
Less: Interactive Data transaction and integration costs and
acquisition-related success fees
5
 
 
 3
 5
 3
Less: Interactive Data integration costs
 
 
 12
 
 12
Less: Amortization of acquisition-related intangibles19
 13
 53
 51
 72
 64
23
 16
 54
 53
 77
 69
Less: Accruals relating to investigations and inquiries
 4
 
 
 
 4
Adjusted operating expenses$206
 $181
 $315
 $298
 $521
 $479
$205
 $191
 $323
 $303
 $528
 $494
Operating income$328
 $325
 $274
 $271
 $602
 $596
$385
 $389
 $280
 $261
 $665
 $650
Adjusted operating income$352
 $342
 $327
 $325
 $679
 $667
$408
 $405
 $334
 $326
 $742
 $731
Operating margin59% 62% 43% 43% 50% 52%63% 65% 43% 42% 52% 53%
Adjusted operating margin63% 65% 51% 52% 57% 58%67% 68% 51% 52% 58% 60%
                      
Net income attributable to ICE common stockholders        $458
 $371
        $484
 $464
Add: Interactive Data transaction and integration costs and
acquisition-related success fees
        5
 3
Add: Interactive Data integration costs        
 12
Add: Amortization of acquisition-related intangibles        72
 64
        77
 69
Add: Accruals relating to investigations and inquiries        
 4
Add: Adjustment to reduce net gain on Trayport divestiture        
 1
Less: Income tax effect for the above items        (19) (22)        (20) (21)
Less: Deferred tax adjustment from U.S. tax rate reduction        (12) 
Add: Deferred tax adjustment on acquisition-related intangibles        
 12
Less: Other tax adjustments        (13) 
Less: Deferred tax adjustments on acquisition-related intangibles        (17) 
Add: Other tax adjustments        3
 
Adjusted net income attributable to ICE common stockholders        $491
 $432
        $527
 $525
                      
Basic earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders        $0.80
 $0.63
        $0.85
 $0.80
Diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders        $0.79
 $0.63
        $0.85
 $0.79
                      
Adjusted basic earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders        $0.86
 $0.73
        $0.93
 $0.90
Adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to ICE common stockholders        $0.85
 $0.73
        $0.92
 $0.90
Acquisition-related transaction costs are included as part of our core business expenses, except for those that are directly related to the announcement, closing, financing or termination of a transaction. However, we adjusted for the acquisition-related transaction and integration costs relating to Interactive Data are included in non-GAAP adjustments given the size of this acquisition. The integration of Interactive Data was completed by June 2018. Amortization of acquisition-related intangibles are included in non-GAAP adjustments as excluding these non-cash expenses provides greater clarity regarding our financial strength and stability of cash operating results.
DuringIn addition, we also include the nine months ended September 30, 2018 we include as a non-GAAP adjustment the reduction of the gain on our December 2017 sale of Trayport as it represents a non-recurring item. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, we includenon-GAAP adjustment, as non-GAAP adjustments the Cetip net realized investment gain and the foreign exchange loss and transaction expenses on the sale of Cetip, as the sale of Cetipthis is not considered a part of our core business operations. During the nine and three months ended September 30, 2017, we include as a non-GAAP adjustment the accrual relating to investigations and inquiries as it is a nonrecurring item. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we include as non-GAAP adjustments the impairment loss on exchange registration intangible assets and employee severance costs related to the closure of ICE Futures Canada and ICE Clear Canada as they are non-recurring items. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, we include as a non-GAAP adjustment the NYSE Governance Services net loss on divestiture as it is a non-recurring item. The income tax effects relating to the itemsall non-GAAP adjustments, above, are included as well asnon-GAAP adjustments. The $17 million deferred tax adjustmentsadjustment on acquisition-related intangibles are included in our non-GAAP adjustments. Duringfor the nine and three monthsperiod ended September 30, 2018, we include a $12March 31, 2019 is due to state apportionment changes. The $3 million non-GAAPother tax adjustment from deferred tax benefits associated withfor the U.S. tax rate reduction resulting from changes in estimates. Other tax adjustments during the nine and three monthsperiod ended September 30, 2018 include a $17 million tax benefit on the sale of Trayport offset by anMarch 31, 2019 is for additional audit settlement for apayments primarily related to pre-acquisition periodtax matters in connectionconjunction with our acquisition of NYSE in 2013.
For additional information on these items, refer to our consolidated financial statements and related notes, which are included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and “- Recent Developments,” “- “—Consolidated Operating Expenses,” “- Expenses” and “—Consolidated Non-Operating Income (Expense)(Expenses) and Part II, Item 1 “- Legal Proceedings.”, above.

Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments
In the thirdfirst quarter of 2018,2019, there were no significant changes to our contractual obligations and commercial commitments from those disclosed in the section “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our 20172018 Form 10-K.10-K, other than the changes related to our adoption of the new lease accounting standard, ASU 2016-02, described in Note 2 of our consolidated financial statements.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As described in Note 1011 to our consolidated financial statements, and related notes, which are included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, certain clearing house collateral is reported off-balance sheet. We do not have any relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities.
New and Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, for information on the new and recently adopted accounting pronouncements that are applicable to us.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
In the thirdfirst quarter of 2018,2019, there were no significant changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates from those disclosed in the section “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our 20172018 Form 10-K.

ITEM 3.     QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
As a result of our operating and financing activities, we are exposed to market risks such as interest rate risk, foreign currency exchange rate risk and credit risk. We have implemented policies and procedures designed to measure, manage, monitor and report risk exposures, which are regularly reviewed by the appropriate management and supervisory bodies.
Interest Rate Risk
We have exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relating to our cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, short-term and long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments and indebtedness. As of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2017,2018, our cash and cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments, and short-term and long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents were $1.7both $2.0 billion and $1.6 billion, respectively, of which $308$241 million and $293$275 million, respectively, were denominated in pounds sterling, euros or Canadian dollars. The remaining cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, and short-term and long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents are denominated in U.S. dollars. We do not use our investment portfolio for trading or other speculative purposes. A hypothetical 100 basis point decrease in long-termshort-term interest rates to zero basis points would decrease annual pre-tax earnings by $21$16 million as of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, assuming no change in the amount or composition of our cash and cash equivalents short-term investments, and short-term and long-term restricted cash and cash equivalents.
As of September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, we had $7.7$7.5 billion in outstanding debt, of which $6.5 billion relates to our senior notes, which bear interest at fixed interest rates. The remaining amount outstanding of $1.2$1.0 billion relates to the Commercial Paper Program, which bears interest at fluctuating rates and, therefore, subjects us to interest rate risk. A hypothetical 100 basis point increase in long-termshort-term interest rates relating to the amounts outstanding under the Commercial Paper Program as of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 would decrease annual pre-tax earnings by $12$10 million, assuming no change in the volume or composition of our outstanding indebtedness and no hedging activity. See Item 2 “- Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Debt” included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report.
The interest rates on our Commercial Paper Program are currently evaluated based upon current maturities and market conditions. The weighted average interest rate on our Commercial Paper Program increased from 1.23% and 1.49%2.48% as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2017, respectively,2018 to 2.15%2.54% as of September 30,March 31, 2019, and increased from 1.86% as of March 31, 2018. The increasesincrease in the Commercial Paper Program weighted average interest rates wererate was primarily due to the decisions by the U.S. Federal Reserve in December 2017, March 2018, June 2018, September 2018, and Septemberin December 2018 to increase the federal funds short-term interest rate by an aggregate 100 basis points to 2.25%2.50%. The effective interest rate of commercial paper issuance will continue to fluctuate based on the movement in short-term interest rates along with shifts in supply and demand within the commercial paper market.
Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk
As an international business, we are subject to foreign currency exchange rate risk. We may experience gains or losses from foreign currency transactions in the future given that a significant part of our assets and liabilities are recorded in pounds sterling, Canadian dollars or euros, and a significant portion of our revenues and expenses are recorded in pounds sterling or euros. Certain

assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses of foreign subsidiaries are denominated in the local functional

currency of such subsidiaries. Our exposure to foreign denominated earnings for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 is presented by primary foreign currency in the following table (dollars in millions, except exchange rates):
Nine Months Ended 
 September 30, 2018
 Three Months Ended 
 September 30, 2018
 Nine Months Ended 
 September 30, 2017
 Three Months Ended 
 September 30, 2017
Three Months Ended March 31, 2019 Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
Pound sterling Euro Pound sterling Euro Pound sterling Euro Pound sterling EuroPound Sterling Euro Pound Sterling Euro
Average exchange rate to the U.S. dollar in the current year period1.3520
 1.1947
 1.3037
 1.1631
 1.2760 1.1136
 1.3091
 1.1752
$1.3021
 $1.1355
 $1.3918
 $1.2292
Average exchange rate to the U.S. dollar in the same period in the prior year1.2760
 1.1136
 1.3091
 1.1752
 1.3938 1.1164
 1.3135
 1.1160
$1.3918
 $1.2292
 $1.2396
 $1.0654
Average exchange rate increase (decrease)6% 7% % (1)% (8)% % % 5%(6)% (8)% 12% 15%
Foreign denominated percentage of:                      
Revenues, less transaction-based expenses9% 5% 8% 4 % 10 % 4% 10% 5%8 % 5 % 10% 5%
Operating expenses11% 2% 11% 2 % 12 % 3% 12% 2%10 % 2 % 12% 2%
Operating income7% 7% 6% 7 % 9 % 6% 9% 7%7 % 8 % 8% 7%
Impact of the currency fluctuations (1) on:
                      
Revenues, less transaction-based expenses$20
 $11
 $
 $(1) $(34) $
 $
 $3
$(7) $(6) $13
 $8
Operating expenses$11
 $3
 $
 $
 $(19) $
 $
 $1
$(4) $(1) $7
 $2
Operating income$9
 $8
 $
 $(1) $(15) $
 $
 $2
$(3) $(5) $6
 $6
(1) Represents the impact of currency fluctuation for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018 and September 30, 2017 compared to the same periods in the prior year.
(1)Represents the impact of currency fluctuation for the three months ended March 31, 2019 compared to the same period in the prior year.
AWe have a significant part of our assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses are recorded in pounds sterling or euros. For the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018, 14% and 12%, respectively,March 31, 2019, 13% of our consolidated revenues, less transaction-based expenses, were denominated in pounds sterling or euros. For both the nineeuros, and, three months ended September 30, 2018, 13%12% of our consolidated operating expenses were denominated in pounds sterling or euros. As the pound sterling or euro exchange rate changes, the U.S. equivalent of revenues and expenses denominated in foreign currencies changes accordingly.
Foreign currency transaction risk related to the settlement of foreign currency denominated assets, liabilities and payables occur through our operations, which are received in or paid in pounds sterling, Canadian dollars or euros, due to the increase or decrease in the foreign currency exchange rates between periods. We incurred foreign currency transaction losses of $1 million and $2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $1$4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2019. Foreign currency transaction gains or losses were flat for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The foreign currency transactions losses were primarily attributable to the fluctuations of the pound sterling and euro relative to the U.S. dollar. There was no significant foreign currency transaction impact for the three months ended September 30, 2018. A 10% adverse change in the underlying foreign currency exchange rates as of September 30, 2018 would result in a foreign currency transaction loss of $2 million,March 31, 2019, assuming no change in the composition of the foreign currency denominated assets, liabilities and payables and assuming no hedging activity.activity, would result in no additional foreign currency gain or loss.
We entered into foreign currency hedging transactions during the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 as economic hedges to help mitigate a portion of our foreign exchange risk exposure and may enter into additional hedging transactions in the future to help mitigate our foreign exchange risk exposure. Although we may enter into additional hedging transactions in the future to help mitigate our foreign exchange risk exposure, these hedging arrangements may not be effective, particularly in the event of imprecise forecasts of the levels of our non-U.S. denominated assets and liabilities.

We have foreign currency translation risk equal to our net investment in our foreign subsidiaries. The financial statements of these subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars using a current rate of exchange, with gains or losses included in the cumulative translation adjustment account, a component of equity. Our exposure to the net investment in foreign currencies is presented by primary foreign currencies in the table below (in millions):
As of September 30, 2018As of March 31, 2019
Position in pounds sterling Position in Canadian dollars Position in euros
Position in 
pounds sterling
 
Position in 
Canadian dollars
 Position in euros
Assets£830
 C$1,356
 150
£829
 C$1,792
 151
of which goodwill and intangible assets represent639
 417
 93
of which goodwill represents632
 412
 92
Liabilities84
 957
 40
81
 1,380
 49
Net currency position£746
 C$399
 110
£748
 C$412
 102
Impact on consolidated equity of a 10% decrease in foreign currency exchange rates$97
 $31
 $13
Net currency position, in $USD$975
 $309
 $114
Negative impact on consolidated equity of a 10% decrease in foreign currency exchange rates$98
 $31
 $11

As of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2017,2018, the portion of our equity attributable to accumulated other comprehensive loss from foreign currency translation was $187$201 million and $136$227 million, respectively. As of September 30, 2018, we had net exposure of pounds sterling, Canadian dollars and euros of £746 million ($973 million), C$399 million ($309 million), and €110 million ($128 million), respectively. Based on these September 30, 2018 net currency positions, a hypothetical 10% decrease of pound sterling against U.S. dollar would negatively impact our equity by $97 million, a hypothetical 10% decrease of Canadian dollar against U.S. dollar would negatively impact our equity by $31 million, and a hypothetical 10% decrease of euro against U.S. dollar would negatively impact our equity by $13 million. For the nine and three months ended September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, currency exchange rate differences had a negativepositive impact of $51$26 million and $9 million, respectively, on our consolidated equity,equity. The increase for the three months ended March 31, 2019 is primarily due to the decreaseincrease in the pound sterling/U.S. dollar exchange rate to 1.30301.3046 as of September 30, 2018March 31, 2019 (from 1.35101.2756 as of December 31, 2017).2018) due to the strengthening of the pound sterling as compared to the U.S. dollar. The future impact on our business relating to the U.K. leaving the EU and the corresponding regulatory changes are uncertain at this time, including future impacts on currency exchange rates.
Credit Risk
We are exposed to credit risk in our operations in the event of a counterparty default. We limit our exposure to credit risk by rigorously selecting the counterparties with which we make our investments, monitoring them on an ongoing basis and execute agreements. Credit risk is monitored by using exposure limits depending on ratings assigned by rating agencies as well as the nature and maturity of transactions. Our investment objective isexecuting agreements to invest in securities that preserve principal while maximizing yields, without significantly increasing risk. We seek to substantially mitigate credit risk associated with investments by ensuring that these financial assets are placed with governments, well-capitalized financial institutions and other creditworthy counterparties.protect our interests.
An ongoing review is performed to evaluate changes in the status of counterparties. In addition to the intrinsic creditworthiness of counterparties, our policies require diversification of counterparties (banks, financial institutions, bond issuers and funds) so as to avoid a concentration of risk.Clearing House Cash Deposit Risks
The ICE Clearing Houses hold material amounts of clearing member cash deposits which are held or invested primarily to provide security of capital while minimizing credit, market and liquidity risks. Refer to Note 1011 to our consolidated financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, for more information on the ICE Clearing Houses' cash deposits, which were $58.8$64.6 billion as of September 30, 2018.March 31, 2019. While we seek to achieve a reasonable rate of return which may generate interest income for our clearing members, we are primarily concerned with preservation of capital and managing the risks associated with these deposits. As the ICE Clearing Houses may pass on interest revenues (minus costs) to the clearing members, this could include negative or reduced yield due to market conditions. For a summary of the risks associated with this investment activity and how these risks are mitigated, see Part II, Item 7(A) “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” in our 20172018 Form 10-K.

ITEM  4.        CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
(a)  Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures.    As of the end of the period covered by this report, an evaluation was carried out by our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act). Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report.
(b)  Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting. There were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during our most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting. As a result, no corrective actions were taken.

PART II. Other Information

ITEM 1.    LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
We are subject to legal proceedings, claims and investigations that arise in the ordinary course of our business. These include the matters described in Part I, Item 3 “Legal Proceedings” in our 2017 Form 10-K and Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements and related notes, which are included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, and which should be referred to for further discussion. We establish accruals for those matters in circumstances when a loss contingency is considered probable and the related amount is reasonably estimable. Any such accruals may be adjusted as circumstances change. Assessments of losses are inherently subjective and involve unpredictable factors. We do not believe that the resolution of these legal matters will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial conditions,condition, results of operations or liquidity. It is possible, however, that future results of operations for any particular quarterly or annual period may be materially and adversely affected by any developments in legal proceedings, claims and investigations.

investigations
. See Part I, Item 3 “Legal Proceedings” in our 2018 Form 10-K and Note 12 to the consolidated financial statements and related notes, which are included in this Quarterly Report.
ITEM  1(A).     RISK FACTORS

In the thirdfirst quarter of 2018,2019, there were no significant new risk factors from those disclosed in Part 1, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in our 20172018 Form 10-K. In addition to the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report, including the information in the "- Regulation" section of Item 2 - Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, you should carefully consider the factors discussed under “Risk Factors” and the regulation discussion under “Business - Regulation” in our 20172018 Form 10-K. These risks could materially and adversely affect our business, financial

condition and results of operations. The risks and uncertainties in our 20172018 Form 10-K are not the only ones facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us, or that we currently believe to be immaterial, may also adversely affect our business.

ITEM 2.    UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
Stock Repurchases
The table below sets forth the information with respect to purchases made by or on behalf of ICE or any “affiliated purchaser” (as defined in Rule 10b-18(a)(3) under the Exchange Act) of our common stock during the three months ended September 30, 2018. March 31, 2019.
Period
(2018)
 
Total number of
shares purchased 
Average price
paid per share
Total number of
shares purchased as
part of publicly
announced plans or
programs(1)
Approximate dollar
value of shares that
may yet be
purchased under the
plans or programs
(in millions)(1)
July 1 - July 311,311,675$75.0511,714,921$343
August 1 - August 311,507,471$73.7213,222,392$232
September 1 - September 301,171,636$77.1814,394,028$141
Total3,990,782$75.1714,394,028$141
Period
(2019)
Total number of shares purchased
(in thousands)
Average price
paid per share
Total number of shares purchased as part of publicly announced plans or programs
(in thousands)
Approximate dollar value of shares that may yet be
purchased under the plans or programs
(in millions)
January 1 - January 311,570$74.511,570$1,883
February 1 - February 282,005$75.883,575$1,731
March 1 - March 312,296$74.445,871$1,560
Total5,871$74.955,871$1,560
 
(1)Refer to Note 89 to our consolidated financial statements and related notes, which are included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, for details on our stock repurchase plans.

ITEM 3.    DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES

None.

ITEM 4.    MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.

ITEM 5.        OTHER INFORMATION
Not applicable.


ITEM 6.        EXHIBITS
Exhibit Number  Description of Document
   
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
10.1
31.1
   
31.2
   
32.1
   
32.2
   
101   The following materials from Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2018,March 31, 2019, formatted in XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language): (i) the Consolidated Balance Sheets, (ii) the Consolidated Statements of Income, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity, Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Redeemable Non-Controlling Interest (v) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows and (vi) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, tagged as blocks of text.*
 

*
As provided in Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, this information is “furnished” and not “filed” for purposes of Sections 11 and 12 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such exhibit will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 unless Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. specifically incorporates it by reference.  

SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
  
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
(Registrant)
    
Date: October 31, 2018May 2, 2019 By:/s/ Scott A. Hill
   Scott A. Hill
   Chief Financial Officer
   (Principal Financial Officer)


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