Atlanta, United States
Abbreviation
ICE
Location
Atlanta, United States
Region
Americas
Group
ICE
Product Types
Energy, Emissions, Agricultural, Biofuels, Financial
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) was founded in 2000 to digitize the energy markets and provide greater pricing transparency. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, ICE has grown into a global network of exchanges, clearing houses, and data services spanning energy, agricultural, financial, and emissions markets. ICE operates multiple regulated markets including ICE Futures U.S., ICE Futures Europe, and the NYSE, serving participants in over 100 countries.
HedgeStreet Exchange was a CFTC-regulated US derivatives exchange founded in 2004, offering small-denomination binary contracts (starting at $10) on economic events including crude oil prices, gold, natural gas, and macroeconomic indicators. Designed to democratise derivatives access for retail traders, HedgeStreet was one of the first exchanges to offer CFTC-regulated retail binary options on commodity prices. In 2008, the exchange was acquired and eventually rebranded as Cantor Exchange (part of Cantor Fitzgerald), which subsequently ceased operations.
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange, tracing its origins to 1872 as the Butter and Cheese Exchange of New York. Now a division of CME Group, NYMEX provides global benchmark pricing for energy and metals markets including WTI crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, gasoline, gold, silver, copper, platinum, and palladium. NYMEX contracts are widely referenced for international energy and metals price discovery.
The Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) was one of the world's largest derivatives exchanges, founded in São Paulo in 1983. In 2008, BM&F merged with the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) to form BM&FBOVESPA. In 2017, it merged again with CETIP to create B3 (Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão) — now Latin America's largest financial exchange group by market capitalisation. B3 continues to operate commodity derivatives including sugar, arabica coffee, live cattle, ethanol, and gold contracts.
The Sioux City Grain Exchange (SCGX) is a local cash grain market based in Sioux City, Iowa, serving the Northwestern Iowa and surrounding tri-state agricultural region. As a traditional open-outcry grain exchange, it historically provided price discovery and merchandising services for corn, soybeans, and wheat. The exchange represents one of the regional grain markets that predates the consolidation of US grain pricing into national futures exchanges such as CME Group's CBOT.