INTERNATIONAL: Ice Clear Europe Completes Clearing Transition of NYSE Liffe Derivatives Contracts

Wednesday July 3 2013

ICE Clear Europe, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange, and NYSE Liffe, the derivatives division of NYSE Euronext, today announced the completion of the clearing transition for the London-based derivatives market of NYSE Liffe to ICE Clear Europe.

The clearing transition involved 43 member firms with 75 million contract sides being transferred to ICE Clear Europe and US $11.17 billion margin held at the clearing house on the morning of July 1, 2013. The combined guaranty fund for ICE Energy and NYSE Liffe Futures and Options is set at U.S. $1.2 billion from July 1, 2013. In addition, the migration covered over 1,300 products across bond, commodity, equity, index and interest rate derivatives and ten new settlement currencies for ICE Clear Europe.

Following the migration of clearing for NYSE Liffe products, ICE Clear Europe provides clearing services for energy, emissions, agricultural, credit, interest rate, fixed income and equity derivatives. ICE Clear Europe currently has 80 members and is on track to be compliant with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation in the second half of 2013.

On December 20, 2012, ICE and NYSE Euronext announced that their wholly owned subsidiaries, ICE Clear Europe Limited and LIFFE Administration and Management had entered into a clearing services agreement for ICE Clear Europe to provide clearing services to the London market of NYSE Liffe. The clearing services agreement included provisions for NYSE Liffe to transition from their current clearing arrangements.

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