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Financial derivatives


Navigating global markets requires a dynamic and efficient approach to risk management. Backed by over 40 years of market history, ICE's financial derivatives franchise offers a comprehensive, multi-asset platform covering equity derivatives and interest rate derivatives — providing deep liquidity, flexibility and capital efficiencies needed to manage risk with confidence.

With connectivity across global markets, ICE enables institutions to hedge, trade and optimise portfolios within a single integrated ecosystem, ensuring transparent price discovery and execution efficiency across asset classes.

Interest rate derivatives

ICE offers the largest marketplace for U.K. and European interest rates futures and options, including ESTR, Euribor, SONIA, Gilts and SARON futures. ICE's global rate contracts span geographies, currencies and tenors, providing participants with deep liquidity, transparent price discovery and capital-efficient tools to manage risk.

Equity derivatives


ICE provides market participants with deep liquidity and precision across developed and emerging markets. With over 40 years of market history, ICE is the home of U.K. equity derivatives and a primary venue for MSCI index derivatives worldwide, offering broad access to global equity exposures.


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