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ICE’s North American Financial Natural Gas futures and options markets are at record open interest as customers manage supply and demand dynamics across natural gas hubs. Read the release: http://spr.ly/6043BEnO1c

Municipal bonds continue to be a cornerstone of tax-advantaged fixed income strategies and the data behind them is getting sharper. The ICE Municipal AAA Yield Curve updates continuously in response to executed trades, giving market participants a clearer and more current picture of where the market stands. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6041BETq2v

Gen Z just hit a record share of the homebuying market. July's ICE Mortgage Monitor shows Gen Z accounts for 1 in 5 purchase mortgage locks, with digitally native Gen Z and Millennial buyers representing two thirds of all purchase volume. Swipe through for key findings and read the press release for more: http://spr.ly/6049BEHpkx

Climate risk analysis requires granular data about exposed assets. Building locations alone aren't enough - you need information about heights, construction materials, use types, and hazard proximity. ICE built a machine learning model trained on 700,000 assets to infer these characteristics for 1.6 billion buildings worldwide. This large-scale analytics foundation powers our global physical risk insights across asset classes in the ICE Climate Analytics Platform. Verdantix recognized ICE as a Green Quadrant leader, citing this market-leading geospatial intelligence platform.

Strategies like Target Maturity ETFs can be used to match future liabilities like college tuition or retirement. ICE’s Preston Peacock spoke with Vanguard Financial Advisor Services, Head of Index & Municipal Product Strategy, Perryne Desai, CFA to learn why these funds - part of the growing wave of customizable ETFs - may offer broader diversification and lower volatility compared to traditional strategies. Watch the full conversation: http://spr.ly/6049BEDf2F

ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) now operates the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) Platinum and Palladium Prices and the daily auctions, which set these benchmark prices. IBA has administered the London Gold and Silver Prices and the related daily auctions on behalf of the LBMA since 2015 and 2017, respectively. Read the release here: http://spr.ly/6043BEDieR Clive de Ruig

As America celebrates its 250th birthday - a nation built on ambition and entrepreneurship - another milestone was marked at the White House with the launch of Trump Accounts. ICE founder and CEO Jeff Sprecher spoke before President Donald J. Trump, noting that just as the New York Stock Exchange was founded to give a fledgling nation a marketplace to fund its own future, Washington is now widening capital markets access for the next generation of Americans. NYSE | The White House | Invest America

ICE has been named a leader by Verdantix in their latest Green Quadrant: Climate Financial Data & Analytics report. What sets us apart: climate risk analytics for 1.6 billion buildings and 13 million corporate assets worldwide, near-real-time global extreme weather event exposure monitoring across asset classes in the ICE Hazard Watch tool, and global physical risk, transition, and nature risk analytics in the ICE Climate Analytics Platform (ICE CAP). This recognition reflects what we’ve built to help investors quantify, manage, and act on climate risk in fixed income markets.

Sustainability compliance, including EUDR, is reshaping how cocoa and coffee are traded. ICE CoT provides a single, trusted standard to navigate this shift, with members representing around 90% of cocoa and coffee entering Europe. Clive de Ruig, President of ICE Benchmark Administration, explains how ICE CoT, our standardized framework, simplifies compliance so that firms can adopt a single standard across all their suppliers. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6041BD0U3c.

Digital assets are traded, stored, and understood at ICE. Last week, we put that to work. We convened senior leaders from across the digital asset ecosystem at the NYSE for the Institutional Digital Assets Financing Summit - focused on building financing solutions that are standardized and scalable.