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| We are well positioned to both benefit from the near-term volatility and the long-term secular growth trends occurring across these markets because we operate a global gas market with benchmarks across North America, Europe and Asia |
| In the third quarter, we delivered the best quarter in our company's history with record revenues, record adjusted operating income and record adjusted earnings per share |
| This strong performance included 48% growth in global natural gas driven by a record quarter of TTF volumes |
| In addition, we continue to see robust trends across our global oil business with ADV up 40% year-over-year in the third quarter and open interest at the end of October, up 26% year-over-year |
| So I think that really positions us nicely because of all the hard work the team has done to penetrate the wealth side of the business |
| mortgage market is, in converse, fueling growth on our commodity hedging and credit protection platforms, which benefited ICE's record third quarter earnings |
| This allows us to oversee our costs and stand behind our performance, a cloud strategy that Warren mentioned was a contributor to our record earnings in the quarter |
| This is why Warren and Ben were able to tell you in specifics about the encouraging reception that we're receiving for our vision to rewire the mortgage market |
| This strength continues to underscore the significance of our contracts to the price formation of global natural gas |
| These record-setting third quarter results against our extraordinary third quarter results of last year are another example of strong execution across our platform |
| which is once again driven by double-digit growth in the number of customers consuming our global energy and environmental data as well as a benefit of a few million dollars related to audit recoveries, which we don't expect will repeat in the fourth quarter |
| So as I mentioned earlier, we've really seen good growth across each of our different products |
| So it's a bit of everything growing in terms of AUM, but that has definitely slowed into some of our higher capture products, which has resulted in our index revenues growing nicely, particularly as compared with last year at this time |
| So we mentioned we had a solid Q3 in Encompass sales in the third quarter and then also in October |
| Excluding the impact of the Euronext migration, both recurring revenues and ASV grew by 4%, driven by strong growth across our desktop, feeds and derivative analytics offerings |
| Within our desktop business, revenues once again grew double digits as we continue to see strong demand from energy and environmental-focused customers as well as the continued robust growth in our ICE chat offering in part driven by growing adoption of large language models |
| In our consolidated feeds business, we once again grew high single digits and expect to exceed $100 million of revenue for the full year as we continue to realize the benefits of past investments to enhance our platform |
| And as Warren pointed out in his prepared remarks, we've had a record sales year and we still have a couple of months to go in the year |
| While PRD growth may continue to be below trend in the near term, we're seeing signs of an improved sales cycle alongside strong retention |
| Despite the headwinds facing the mortgage industry and the related near-term pressure on our recurring revenues, sales continued to be robust as customers look to reshape and modernize how they do business |
| Through October, we have already surpassed our prior full year record for new Encompass sales, which was set in 2020 |
| In terms of the fixed income allocation, governments have continued to grow in terms of AUM, but you've also seen higher capture classes such as high-yield, which we're really well known for, investment grade and our unique indices gain some share as well |
| This compares to a total of five signings through the first nine months of the year and has quickly put 2023 on track to be the second best year for MSP sales since 2017 |
| In addition, as we look to 2024 and continuing the momentum, we have seen post close, the current pipeline for MSP is at its highest level in five years |
| We've also added Black Hills Federal Credit Union, which is an existing Encompass client, has now added as I look at it, is incredibly strong |
| Third quarter adjusted earnings per share was a record, totaling $1.46, up 11% year-over-year |
| And if you look at the execution side of the business, ICE bonds, in particular, had really strong growth over the last quarter, particularly given the muted volatility in the muni markets where we've been able to continue to increase our adoption by the retail and wealth side of the businesses as well as benefit from the increased adoption by institutional users contributing to share gains in all of our different products |
| While it has been less than two months since we closed on the acquisition in early September, we've been very impressed by the collaboration between our teams during this short time, a testament to the talent of our respective employee populations and our shared entrepreneurial cultures |
| This trend gives us confidence that we can grow the business that today is only a fraction of the $14 billion addressable market that is in the early days of an analog to digital conversion |
| As we have seen across our network in futures and fixed income, these efficiency gains are best achieved through harnessing unstructured data to create mission-critical information, seamlessly linking participants to that information and ensuring that the network technology underpinning are of the highest quality and security |
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| The subsequent dot-com crash and the collapse of Enron created a very difficult business environment, particularly the trading of energy |
| We did see in the quarter some Encompass closed loans down in the high teens |
| There's no doubt that there was some pent-up demand on MSP as there was an overhang on the deal with clients waiting to see how it was going to come through |
| And there's some pressure around what that means down the road for the number of buy side real estate agents needed to serve that US mortgage market and the percentage of home sales that will even have a buy-side agent involved in a transaction |
| And looking to the fourth quarter, we anticipate near-term cyclical headwinds will persist, coupled with typical seasonal pressures on origination volumes in the first and fourth quarters of each year, we expect the total fourth quarter IMT revenues will be in the range of $490 million to $500 million, bringing full year pro forma - revenues to approximately $2.06 billion and in the middle of the guidance range we provided on our Black Knight closing call in late September |
| Sometime around 2006, we came across a newspaper article about credit default swaps and the difficulty that this market was having settling such contracts |
| I'm just curious to - I guess, how you're getting your market information on mortgage originations being down nearly 20% |
| Third quarter adjusted operating expenses totaled $812 million, including $56 million related to Black Knight and $756 million related to legacy ICE, which was $4 million below the - of our original guidance range, largely driven by lower technology spend, including reduced cloud exposure as we continue to optimize and drive efficiency through our data center footprint |
| If we look at the revenue trends that obviously been sort of challenged here, we know the reasons why around the sales cycle and pricing pressure on fixed income assets |
| The same economic stress that exists in the current U.S |
| So the final thing I'd point out is we're also not losing customers |
| Our colleagues took up the challenge and we acquired targeted platforms and talent |
| So, there are some things in there that, of course, are not perfectly correlated with what's going on in the mortgage market over this current period, if you will, that will create some noise |
| When we made our initial investment in MERS, its technology was outsourced, and was not able to keep up with the demands placed on it during the financial crisis |
| As the clear trend around the world has been under investment in energy infrastructure, so you have a lot of volatility in energy when there's any kind of supply shocks |
| Given the importance of the New York Stock Exchange to the global economy, we had to rebuild the exchange while it was in daily use |
| We're not losing significant customers on the platform |
| You saw our core products such as munis have muted volatility during the summer months, not overly unexpected |
| So we don't see an impact to us negative |
| When we acquired the New York Stock Exchange, it was built on a technology stack that was overly complicated, hard to manage and unreliable |
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