Please standby. Good day. And welcome to the IntercontinentalExchange Third Quarter 2010 Earnings Conference Call. Today’s call is being recorded. And now at this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Ms. Kelly Loeffler. Please go ahead, ma’am.

Good morning. ICE’s third quarter earnings release and presentation can be found in the Investor section of our website at the ice.com. These items will be archive and our call will be available for replay. Today’s call may contain forward-looking statements. These statements represent our current judgments and are subject to risks, assumptions and uncertainties. For a description of the risks that could cause our results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the company s SEC filings, including Form 10-Q and Form 10-K. In our earnings material, we provided a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures as well as an explanation of why we deem this information to be meaningful and how management uses these measures. These adjustments reflect certain charges that we believe are not reflective of normal operating performance. With us today are Jeff Sprecher, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Scott Hill, Chief Financial Officer; and Chuck Vice, President and Chief Operating Officer. I’ll now turn the call over to t Scott.

Thanks, Kelly. Good morning, everyone and thanks for joining us today. We’re pleased to have delivered another solid quarter and to provide an update on our strategic initiatives. Our continued strong performance is driven by our global reach, product diversification and investment discipline, together with an innovative customer focused culture we continue to develop solutions relied upon by other industry under the dynamic financial services and risk management backdrop. I’ll start this morning on slide four, where I’ll recap the first nine months of 2010. Please note that the numbers discussed this morning refer to our adjusted operating results, which we believe are more reflective of the performance of our business. In the first nine months of this year, revenues increased 17% and adjusted expenses rose just 6%. This operating leverage enabled a 28% increase in adjusted net income attributable to ICE. Our operating cash flow also grew significantly through the first nine months, up 25% year-over-year. ICE’s revenue growth reflects the rising demand for commodities, particularly from emerging economies and the clearing and risk management services we offer our customers. These are fundamental elements of the business model we have constructed to enable us to consistently generate strong returns for our shareholders. Let’s move to slide five and discuss our third quarter results. Consolidated revenues grew 12% to $287 million over last year’s third quarter. Consolidated net income attributable to ICE was $96 million. On an adjusted basis, net income attributable to ICE grew 21% versus 3Q ‘09, diluted earnings per share grew 20% to $1.42. Our positioning in the global commodity market continues to generate strong volume and revenue expansion. And our investments in CDS clearing are now contributing to our bottom line even in advance of regulatory implementation. We are live with a profitable business. Importantly, our…

Thank you, Scott, and good morning. I want to take a few minutes this morning to offer some perspective on our progress on the operational side of complying with regulatory reform. Then I’ll update you on our positioning relative to the secular growth trends that we are levered over the near and long-term. I spoke with you last quarter about some key aspects of financial reform legislation and how we are positioned within a unique market and clearing infrastructure. The rule making is still underway in the U.S. and will continue over coming months and the European legislation is pending. While we don’t have all the details, it’s clear that these rules will call for increased regulation and transparency of all market venues and as a result, will require substantial regulatory and reporting infrastructure. I’d like to preview today our strong operation position as a result of the multiyear initiatives that we’ve undertaken to meet the increased standards for transparency and compliance. These are capabilities to keep in mind as you hear other companies talk about the formation of Swap Execution Facility, also coined as SEFs in the coming months. As we’ve mentioned in past calls ICE price itself on having developed one of the most flexible and modern technology infrastructures. While we like to talk about the fact that today we have the fastest trade execution times in the futures industry, what we rely on most as an operator of market is our ability to maintain regulatory compliance, to ensure confidence in our markets. Our exchanges are self-regulatory organization and subject to multiple regulators, so we have a very high standard for compliance today. Accordingly, we leverage our strength and technology to meet these requirements. About three years ago, we began making expensive investments in leading compliance tools for…

Thank you, sir. And before we go into the Q&A session, just a quick reminder that webcast participants need to refresh browsers and the slide forward option will reappear. (Operator Instructions) We’ll go to the first caller from Howard Chen with Credit Suisse. Howard Chen – Credit Suisse: Hi. Good morning, Jeff. Good morning, Scott.

Good morning. Howard Chen – Credit Suisse: Trends in the core energy business continue to grow really nicely. You’ve both spoken to the emerging market contribution. So, I was just hoping to get a bit more color there, whether it be placing new customer signups or the contribution from the ex-U.S. business, really just trying to get a feel for how penetrated you think you are here?

Well, I think, we’re feeling pretty good in the sense that we caught the wind of a global commodity trend. I was with my father-in-law over the weekend who is a farmer and he’s being told by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that there’s probably, their outlook is for a 30-year bull market in agricultural commodities, given the demands that the emerging economies food supply are going to put on the global agri business. And Scott and I were just got back from China and met with the two largest oil companies in China. There are three in China in total and we met with the two largest, who are dealing with the fact that the Chinese government is changing the formula for pricing gasoline. They were using a moving average of 22 days, where they would look at oil prices over 22-day period and then based on that movement decide whether or not to change the price of consumer gasoline. The government is going to make consumer gasoline more response to market conditions and is moving the window to a 10-day moving average. Anticipation is that, with the growth in demand of transportation, they really want to expose their economy to more of the true price shocks. So that means more hedging requirements for the oil companies, which was the nature of the meetings that we were having over there. So anecdotally, we continue to see very strong global trends for energy and agriculture and have been fortunate that we positioned the company at the heart of that. Howard Chen – Credit Suisse: Great. Thanks, Jeff. That’s very interesting. And that separate topic, as we’re getting some clarity on Basel III proposals, you know, we’re hearing an increasing drum beat from the major dealers to mitigate against these higher risk-weighted assets using central counter parties. I mean, you’ve been really early to this idea. So I guess, I’m just curious how penetrated do you think that your community is and alleviating against these higher risk weighted assets in the asset classes you have exposure to, you know, energy and credit more recently? Thanks.

I actually think the bigger lobbying force or conversation that’s going on around that is by the true ultimate end users that I really believe globally regulators understand the need for corporate entities to hedge foreign exchange risk and commodity risk and interest rate risk and realize that these companies were not at the heart of the financial problems that we’ve had. And so any increase in capital requirements for being able to write customized swaps is going to ultimately be passed on to the end user. So I tend to think that it’s that group that is having the conversation that is being heard and that regulators are ultimately going to strike a balance that would have the market allow dealers and others to write customized, tailored OTC swaps, bilateral non-cleared customized swaps to end users but then turn right around and lay the bulk of that risk off in transparent liquid markets that are cleared. And I think that’s where regulators are heading to. We obviously benefit by being the transparent regulated markets with clearing. And so I think it’s long-term bullish for where we position the company.

I think how you see some of it in numbers too, if you look -- I mean, volatility is way off in most of the energy products and yet across the board, we’ve seen good growth in volume and good growth in open interest. So I think that’s indicative of people who weren’t necessarily in a cleared market or in a futures product that are starting to move that business. And I think that started this year. I don’t think we’re through that trend. Howard Chen – Credit Suisse: Agreed. Makes sense. Thanks for taking the questions.

Our next question will come from Roger Freeman with Barclays Capital. Roger Freeman – Barclays Capital: Hi. Good morning.

Good morning. Roger Freeman – Barclays Capital: I guess just on the -- good morning. On the CDS side, can you, I guess, talk about your migration or plans to migrate to an FCM model. And I guess, how that’s coming along from a timing perspective? Is that any reason why the 4Q CDS clearing outlook is down? I’m wondering, if there is any sort of confusion on the part of clients and maybe waiting to see how that all works out.

Yeah. It’s not a confusion issue at all. In fact, there’s absolute clarity. Come July of next year, we will be in ACF, CFTC and World and we’ve got a very clear migration path that we worked out with the customers. I think what you’re seeing in the fourth quarter is simply a typical market slowdown in the fourth quarter in CDS. The fact that we’ve been ramping additional new products and bringing in new clearing members throughout this year. And so what you’re seeing is more of a market slowdown 4Q versus 3Q, which again is what’s historically the case. Roger Freeman – Barclays Capital: Yeah. Okay. That’s helpful. And then I guess, the other question is on the -- I guess the financial resources that one of the rules that the CFTC put out was, I guess, changing or recommending how clearing houses calculate their financial resources, particularly around limiting the ability to assess clients or assess dealers. Any thoughts on how that differs from how you do it today and whether that’s going to require more capital clearing house?

You know, we’ll see how the final rules get written but if you look at the clearing houses now that we’ve got, we feel pretty good about the capital we have on hand. We already -- for example, CDS clearing house, we already have a guaranteed fund that reflects the default of the two largest clearing members on a simultaneous basis. We’ve always held Reg cap aside for all of our clearing houses. We’ve already have (inaudible). So the way the rules have been written at least as they evolved to this point, we feel pretty comfortable that the capital structures we built in our clearing houses are going to be more than sufficient. Roger Freeman – Barclays Capital: Okay. All right. Great. Thanks.

Thank you.

And the next question will come from Rich Repetto with Sandler O’Neill. Rich Repetto – Sandler O’Neill: Good morning, guys.

Good morning.

Good morning. Rich Repetto – Sandler O’Neill: I guess, Jeff, first question, you know, you spent some time and went into sort of detail on your capabilities that you built around compliance, transparency and the whole -- how you’re adapting or interacting with the potential regulatory changes. So I guess the question is, is this -- was that intended to just be broad or, you know, it seems like you do -- if we believe you, you’ve got these capabilities. How would you leverage them? Like it seems a shame that it would just be in just CDS, what other -- are you intending to be a SEF in other asset classes as well given all these capabilities you built up?

I think the reason I wanted to mention it was that we took a look at our records. And we have, I believe, 422 brokerage firms that have provided trades to us. Now, some of those firms are brother, sister with one another because of global organization but -- and that’s just in the energy footprint that we have. So all of those companies are going to need to figure out how to deal with compliance, how to deal with SEFs. Frankly, many of them, their business model has been made illegal by Dodd-Frank. And so contrast that with ICE and the over-the-counter markets have started the company and continued with the idea that we want to be transparent and standardized contracts clear them and more recently, provide compliance over them. So we have a lot of systems that we may be able to provide the marketplace at a moment in time that the marketplace may be faced with these investments. We’ll have to see how the SEF rules play out. But the point here is that we see dozens and dozens of people talking about the need that they may have to go create SEFs and we’ve seen comments by regulators that they expect potentially a flurry of these things. And my point is that I think people are underestimating the magnitude of the investment that it has taken to put systems in place that really provide best-in-class compliance and technology services. Rich Repetto – Sandler O’Neill: Got it. Got it. Okay. And then my one follow-up, Jeff, would be you talked before about -- and so did Scott talk about ICE being a global derivatives platform. And you’ve talked before about other exchanges are tied to regional, sort of, economic recovery, whether it be equities or interest rates. But I guess -- I think the common question is how do you keep this up? How do you -- you’ve been setting records and September was a record but at some point, when the local economies do improve, I’m not sure whether that’s now or when that is. But how would you view your growth when that -- when you actually do see improvements and say the equities or interest rate, the specifics in the local economy is improving?

Yeah. I think it’s a good question because we believe we’re ultimately levered for that as well. I mean, if we get in a better growth environment, which should help the equities markets and again demand borrowing, which will create demand for interest rate rising, then you’re going to expect that the overall economy is rising, which means more global demand for commodities. So we saw during, sort of, the boom period over the last decade of interest rates and equities that we were growing very quickly, maybe even best-in-class and I think we’re exactly levered to that as well. Rich Repetto – Sandler O’Neill: Okay. Thanks for the answers, Jeff.

Thank you.

And we’ll move next to Alex Kramm with UBS. Alex Kramm – UBS: Hey, good morning.

Good morning. Alex Kramm – UBS: I just wanted to follow up on some of the CDS clearing items you talked about, in particular, when it comes to your buy side adoption, as you know, we just pulled a lot of buy-siders and some of the feedback was that and particularly in the U.S. when you talk to very large asset managers that do a lot of business, for them, they’re really focused on operational efficiencies and they are really looking for a one-stop solution and which could give a little bit more power to some of the larger clearing houses out there. So just trying to get a feel for when you talk to all these different buy side end clients, like how you’re differentiating yourself, how you’re making the point that you’re the winner on credit and they need to get ready for you. Thank you.

Yeah. Appreciate the question. So, look, I think the first way we differentiate ourselves is we show them $13 trillion cleared and multi-billion dollar guaranteed fund and a system that’s clearing 260 products. So the buy side speech is now not just a speech, it’s a demonstrable business that we actually run day-to-day. You can see that the buy side has started to clear, we’re at over $3 billion cleared, not a huge amount compared to $13 trillion but clearly buy side activity. And then the other thing, we talked about -- we don’t just talk to them on a side basis, they’re actually a formal part of our governance structure. We’ve got a buy side committee where the larger -- a lot of the large buy side firms have come in and said we want to work with you to help you refine and develop a system that makes sure that it meets our needs and requirements as we move forward. So I read the report that you put out. And I think some of the commentary about them moving to clearing mid-to-later part of next year is probably right. But I think, we clearly demonstrated that we’ve got the leading CDS clearing platform. And I think the fact that they’re working with us as a part of our governance structure and are already testing with some clearing volumes today demonstrates that they see us as the leader and are going to come our way.

Also, Alex, I wanted to mention to you that I think one of the -- you’ve identified this issue and one of the things that’s going on very quickly is one by one, you’re seeing the major clearing firms announce that they’re basically combining prime brokerage and clearing into one entity and what’s going on there, I believe, is that most end user customers do not become members of the clearing house. They approach clearing through an FCM. And these FCMs see the opportunity to create basically one-stop shopping for the end users and make them agnostic as to what clearing house ultimately gets used. And in fact, the prime broker clearer will actually make money by marshalling collateral around between clearing houses on behalf of customers. And so I think by the time, we get to full implementation of requirements for end user clearing, you’re going to see this structure in place that’s going to allow multiple clearing houses to flourish and make end users agnostic. Alex Kramm – UBS: Great. Thanks for the detail. Just then one quick one for you, Scott. On the OTC energy side, I think a couple quarters ago you gave us a little bit of an update on some of the products that you introduced over the last year, what those have contributed. I think it was something like 4% or so in the first quarter. Can you give us an update on that and maybe just at the same time tell us your appetite for new products there, what you’re seeing out there. Are there still a lot of opportunities for new OTC energy products? Thank you.

Yeah. So let me get the numbers point first. So we did about $7 million, just under, in new products in the quarter, up from just under three in the quarter a year ago, roughly translated at about $0.06 a share. So give or take 4% to 5% of our earnings growth comes from those new products. In speaking with our sales team, there remains a large appetite for continuing to roll out new OTC products. And I think now we’re up to having rolled out over 300 and we’ve got a list of another 100 I would expect in the near-term. So it continues to be a good, solid contributor to the bottom line, again it’s not. None of them individually are the big home runs but collectively $0.06 a share in the quarter is a nice return on that business. Alex Kramm – UBS: Yeah. Thank you.

And we’ll take our next question from Michael Vinciquerra with BMO Capital Markets. Michael Vinciquerra – BMO Capital Markets: Thank you. Just a follow-up on that OTC energy side, I just wanted to ask, you certainly continuing to gain share versus your largest competitor in OTC clearing. I just wanted to see if you could share with us a couple of a reasons why you think that is. And I believe one of them relates to the fact that you offer Brent in the futures side and OTC side, which your main competitor does not. Could you talk about that a little bit, please?

Sure. I think, you know, we benefit from being -- having sort of the heart of our energy business sitting in London. And I think what’s really going on there is the trend we’ve talked about which is the demand out of emerging countries. And it just so happens that the oil industry is really a London-based industry. It’s centered there, long ago so that it could have access to east, west time zones. And so as a result of having our clearing house there, we are the local provider and the new product that’s we’re rolling out for clearing, particularly in the oil business, tend to increasingly be these new basis swaps, in other words, new delivery points for the delivery of oil and largely those tend to be moving east and that’s what you see going on there. So we have a very vibrant competitor as you know, but our footprint in terms of how we’ve located and organized that business is benefiting from the global trends right now. Michael Vinciquerra – BMO Capital Markets: Great. Thank you. And Scott, just one numbers question, just on Climate Exchange. Can you tell us what the actual revenue and expense impact was, just in the third quarter alone, just so we can kind of foot our models and get a better sense for what the change was?

Yeah. I mentioned on the call when I was talking about expenses that the growth after you adjust for severance and some of the other one-off things was literally all CLE. And then so it’s roughly $7 million in change of expense in the quarter, which you would expect to see come down in the fourth quarter because we -- as we announced, we had significantly reduced the population. We had about 66 people when we bought the company. I think we’ll be closer to 25 by the end of the year. And then we’ll reduce further into the first quarter. So seven and change and on its way down in the fourth quarter and into the first quarter of next year. And then the revenue, incremental revenue, remember, we were already getting a lot of economics around the volume, the incremental revenue in the quarter was around $7 million or $8 million as well. Michael Vinciquerra – BMO Capital Markets: Okay. Great. Thanks very much.

That as opposed to the expense we expect to continuing growth.

And we’ll move on to our next question from Michael Carrier with Deutsche Bank. Michael Carrier – Deutsche Bank: Thanks, guys. Just one follow-up on the OTC business, you gave some of the commentary around the new products. I think you said it was around $7 million in the quarter. I guess just the OTC, average daily commission continue to be around that $1.4 million level. So like if we look beyond the new products, in terms of the core business just like what type of trends are you seeing? Because it seems like it’s been stable and you could argue that in the past couple quarters, a lot of other areas have actually seen decreases. So it’s not necessarily a bad thing. But just it seems like that, the growth in the core products or the underlying business hasn’t been where we’ve seen it. So just want to get a better understanding of what’s happening either on clients -- on the client side or on the product side.

I actually think the fact that we’ve been holding at that one, four level is fairly remarkable. If you look a year ago, natural gas volatility was at 93%. This year, it’s at 37. So the volatility world is like a two-thirds reduction. We’ve continued to grow our nat gas business. We’ve continued to see good volume growth. We’ve continued to see open interest build. So I think what you’re seeing is in a significantly lower volatility environment. We continue to put up good OTC numbers and again, I think that’s because there’s a lot of business that is migrating into a cleared world and as we have benchmark products and as we roll out incremental products, we’re getting relatively more of that business and that’s supported our ability in a low volatility environment to continue to grow. Michael Carrier – Deutsche Bank: Okay. That makes sense. Then just on the credit side, it looks like on the CDS, the trends continue to be fairly favorable. And on Creditex, you guys have mentioned on the top line, it’s been a little bit more challenging but you managed the expenses really well. So just looking forward, if we just look at the Creditex business, like how much control do you have on those expenses in case the environment continues to be challenging and whether it’s on the compensation side or other areas that you could continue to take out expenses?

This is Jeff. You know, when we bought Creditex, we were very I think specific in articulating why we wanted to get into that business, which is that we felt that the credit business was an analog business that was going to go digital, that it was one of the only asset class that’s remained analog and that we were going to position that company for the eventual standardization, clearing and electronic trading of credit. And what’s been amazing is that while on the one hand, there’s been a credit contraction, on the other side of that, we have really worked hard, Scott Hill oversees that business along with an on-the-ground senior management team at Creditex. We have been rapidly restructuring that business along that business plan starting years ago. And that means moving more of the business electronic, I think 57% of last quarter was electronic volume, restructuring compensation with people so that they are no longer telephonic voice brokers but are brokers that are working around electronic platform. And as you’ve seen, even though the top line’s gone down, we’ve been doing very well. So we are prepared for a very large operating margin expansion in that business as it goes electronic. And obviously, under Dodd-Frank, it’s going to push it to further electronic.

And the only other point, I’d add to what Jeff said is we have continued to hold top share, one of the top one or two firms in most of the key products in the U.S. and in the U.K. So as we’ve restructured the business, the brokerage team that we’ve built is a very capable brokerage team that in a soft market is holding share and is poised to do very well if the market recovers. Michael Carrier – Deutsche Bank: Okay. Thanks, guys.

And we’ll move next to Chris Brendler with Stifel Nicolaus. Chris Brendler – Stifel Nicolaus: Hi. Thanks. Good morning.

Good morning. Chris Brendler – Stifel Nicolaus: First question, looks like the market data revenue had a little bit of a pickup this quarter relative to prior trends and just wanted to know, if you could talked all about what’s driving that. Is there any pricing? Is it user? Is it a combination of both? Just give us a little color on what’s driving the increase in market data? Thank you.

Yeah. The increases we’re seeing in market data over the last couple quarters is really growth we’re seeing in users. It’s new people that want our data and want access to our platform. So as I’ve said in the past, the market data growth to me is a good indicator that there’s continued and growing interest in the products that trade on our exchange and although not necessarily highly correlated item, it is indicative -- it’s a good indicator for future demand in our product. Chris Brendler – Stifel Nicolaus: Okay. I guess on a related question, seem to ask this ever call but I’m going to ask again, any progress on giving us a better flavor for the growth coming outside of the key markets in U.S. and Europe. Any idea, any possibility of giving us some idea of or better idea of what the growth that’s coming from Asia, across your platform, either through new users or any other things you’ve thought about for giving us a better sense. That’s a biggest question, I get really from investors. How do we get comfortable that the growth is sustainable. What’s the opportunity outside there of key markets to continue to grow volume. Thanks.

You keep asking and I guess I keep being not overly helpful. There’s not a specific metric that we’ve got that would show it but we do see generally continued growth out of Asia. What’s difficult in Asia as you look at the metrics because a lot of the Asian growth we actually see as Jeff mentioned in our London market with London traders. So we said that about 40% of our revenues last year came from outside the U.S. I would suspect by the time we round up the numbers for 2010, you’re going to be -- you’ll see a similar or even an improved level. Not, again, a necessarily direct correlation but I mentioned in my remarks that we’ve improved our tax rate as we look forward and that’s because we are seeing growth in customers outside the U.S. doing business in our London-based clearing house, our London-based exchange. So that’s an indicator I look at anyway that says as our tax rate comes down, it’s coming down because we’re doing more business in a lower tax jurisdiction. So I think those are some of the indicators that I look at that demonstrate that it’s happening. And our ability to say that we think the tax rate will remain at that lower level is because we think the trend will continue.

And maybe just to follow up, when we met last week with SINOPEC, a Chinese oil Company, they are expanding their footprint with a trading desk in London. So as I mentioned, London is the heart of the oil business and the business seems to come to it as opposed to hedgers and traders leaving and going to Asia. Chris Brendler – Stifel Nicolaus: Is there any relationship between the data and the increase in users there and those eventually becoming active trading customers?

Yeah. I mean, again, what we’ve seen when I started three years ago, I think we had about 6,000 or so max log-ins during the day and now we’re upwards of 11,000. And again, I think that trend you see it in our data revenues being up over the last couple of years, we see new users wanting more of the data now. So there’s no question as more people get the data and get access to the system, that trading volumes will trend. Again, I don’t know a specific correlation but there’s no question that they do move together.

By the way, log-in is a point of connectivity that may have dozens and dozens or hundreds of people behind it. But those are -- we’re just seeing more and more connections coming in to us. Chris Brendler – Stifel Nicolaus: Thank you.

(Operator Instructions) We do move next to Ken Worthington with J.P. Morgan for the next question. Ken Worthington – J.P. Morgan: Hi. Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning. Ken Worthington – J.P. Morgan: Can you talk about the Climate Exchange and what you’re doing in terms of strategy, marketing, lobbying and allocation of resources since you’ve closed on the deal.

Sure. I think, Ken, Climate Exchange had a couple of businesses, they were geographically oriented and so I think as you know from doing your modeling, the real value of that business is what’s going on in Europe. And Europe is about ready to go to a new phase in climate change that -- where they’re going to require that more end user customers like airlines, start to buy carbon offsets. So we see regulatory trends, particularly in Europe, particularly favoring that footprint which is where we have a dominant share. In the U.S. -- we’ve mentioned that the businesses here are really loss-making businesses. There’s a very uncertain U.S. regulatory appetite for cap and trade and we’ve announced recently that the voluntary market that was created had an expiration date of the end of this year in it and the bulk of the users have said to us that they really don’t want to continue to trade voluntarily in the absence of any credit for their work by the current administration. So we’re down-sizing that market so that it’s simply a registry and we’ll continue to support those customers in doing what they want to do. But the trend is the other way in the United States. We have footprints in Canada, China and Australia that came with that. Each of those is heading in a different direction and amazingly, the area where there is a tremendous discussion and movement towards more carbon trading is coming out of China. And although it is not being driven by (inaudible) or Copenhagen type conversations, it’s really being driven by the government wanting to allocate energy resources and deal with local pollution issues and carbon will be a good way of doing that. So they’re talking to the mayors of the major industrial cities about trying to put caps over their energy and usage and carbon footprint and I think that internal dialogue bodes well for increased trading. We have in the United States, while the Federal Government is -- it’s uncertain what’s going to happen, there do tend to be growth in regional initiatives and sort of strong I would say demand for the continued use of renewables and so we have regional gas listing and also renewable energy credits and we’re with the top venue for that in the United States. And so we do see that business continuing and that’s kind of the landscape. But long-term, we’re bullish on this and I think really if you step back on a macro level and say here’s the Chinese in an emerging -- rapidly emerging economy wanting to put potentially some carbon limits, self-imposed. That’s really I think indicative of sort of global thinking on energy. Ken Worthington – J.P. Morgan: Great. Thank you very much.

We’ll move next to Chris Harris with Wells Fargo. Chris Harris – Wells Fargo: Thanks. Good morning, guys.

Good morning. Chris Harris – Wells Fargo: As we all know, obviously some of your competitors are actively seeking to broaden their presence in OTC clearing. Just wondering where you think ICE fits within the competitive landscape here and do you think a clearing solution for an asset class that you don’t have execution for could be effective?

It’s a good question. I think, again, at a macro level, the marketplace seems to want multiple providers at every asset class. But not so many as to become capital inefficient and oddly, we started ICE with a pretty clear objective and we were not trying to make a statement, but over time I think regulators and the marketplace has looked to the competition between ICE and NYMEX. And in both clearing execution and other services and likes that footprint, likes that we’re highly competitive, that we keep each other in check and that we’ve had to innovate a lot to stay leaders in that space. So I think the market wants multiple providers and I think some of what you see going on in the background is that. It’s obvious that if you have a futures clearing infrastructure, that you could potentially add on OTC and potentially, with the right regulatory approvals give some kind of margin offset. The market would also -- and I think people talk about that and write about that. But the market’s also trying to go the other way, which is to create pools of OTC liquidity and pull, I believe some look-alike contracts that way so that it gets sort of the ICE, NYMEX dynamic going on. So what that suggests to me is that there’s opportunities to be either the primary or the secondary clearing house in every asset class and you have to decide whether you have the Futures footprint to draw it one way or whether you can establish a pool of OTC liquidity to draw Futures the other way. And I think you could probably go through asset class by asset class of and start to identify where likely footprints will emerge. Chris Harris – Wells Fargo: That makes sense, Jeff. Thanks. And just a follow-up, real quick, on the Climate Exchange. Do you guys have a good sense as to when Europe will be actually switching to that auction based allowance system? Is it going to be ‘11 or ‘12 or some date after that?

The latest that we’ve heard is it will be early 2012. Chris Harris – Wells Fargo: Great. Thank you.

That’s fluid as to be clear.

And we’ll move next to Niamh Alexander with KBW. Niamh Alexander – KBW: Hi. Thanks for taking my question. And talk of the balance sheet because you raised your data a little bit during the quarter. Then I saw you bought back more stock than we had seen in a while. Are you kind of back in a mode of repurchasing now? Is this where you feel the acquisition opportunities are fewer?

We were in the stock buyback mode because the market over-penalized our stock and we saw an opportunity. That said all along, the way we think about the buybacks, we use 5.5 million shares give or take in the Creditex deal. When we see an opportunity to get those shares back out in the market we take it. We’ve gotten out now I think 4.2 million shares of the 5.5. We’ve taken them out at around $9 to $96 a share versus an issue of 113. So effectively we’ve reduced the economic cost of the Creditex deal by being opportunistic in our stock debts. Niamh Alexander – KBW: That’s very helpful. Thanks, Scott. So we shouldn’t necessarily look at this as a run rate in terms of the capital management policy or something like that? Niamh Alexander – KBW: No. Niamh Alexander – KBW: Okay. Great. And if I could cut back to the credit derivatives if I could, for my follow up question. Jeff, thanks so much for your comments on expanding on the investments in the systems around, just the trading and the clearing. Am I understanding correctly that maybe you could kind of provide maybe some outsourcing services to brokers as part of if they want to become self execution facilities, but does that position you kind of out of the running maybe to expand into cliented dealer trading, because right now with Creditex, arguably, you’re well positioned to become a swap execution facility for the dealer-to-dealer trading.

What’s interesting is that we have almost every flavor of platform inside ICE and what we’ve been trying to do is standardize that code base, so that depending upon what user ID and password you log in with, you get a different user experience. We obviously have futures and then we have ICE’s energy, the swap execution platform which is many to many, highly regulated. We have a lot of physical type markets. We have the plus windows which are an auction methodology. And we have the inter-dealer platform at Creditex and we also have the dealer to client platform at Creditex that was called QX. And so we pretty much have all of those. We’ve been investing in all of those to streamline those, to put it on industrial grade hardware, the right connectivity, the right kind of compliance and oversight around those. And we announced today that we have an iPhone app. We moved trade capture OTC over the last four months or so into our data center. That is launching today. It is absolutely real-time. You can hold your iPhone next to your futures screen or the OTC screen and you see the identical bid offer stacks. So that is an industrial grade application that we think will further preference trading towards our footprint. So we don’t exactly know what a SEF definition is going to be and we certainly don’t know how Europe is going to deal with a similar kind of construct that they’re contemplating. But we have pretty much everything we need based on how it rolls out and the nice thing as you alluded to that Creditex gave us an opportunity to really understand the broker space, understand the work flow, understand how pays and collects work there, billing and what have you, what a broker needs on their screen and we have been investing in that this entire time, so that we could roll out platforms widely or we could keep them very narrow, depending upon what the law contemplates and where we may be able to maximize our revenue. Niamh Alexander – KBW: That’s really helpful. Thanks so much, Jeff.

And we’ll move next to Jonathan Casteleyn with Susquehanna. Jonathan Casteleyn – Susquehanna: Thanks. Good morning. Could we talk about OTC power for a moment? Your year-over-year results were down. Just wondering if you think deregulation in the power industry is sort of played out or do you think there’s more opportunity there?

What we saw this quarter and anecdotally speaking to our customers, was a lack of volatility and the marginal fuel used to price electric power in the United States and in Europe is natural gas. And so when natural gas is less volatile and of course we didn’t have any major hurricanes that came up through the U.S. Gulf of Mexico that threatened the infrastructure and provided sort of normal third quarter volatility, that’s really what our customers are telling us that you’re seeing in power. Jonathan Casteleyn – Susquehanna: Okay.

And we’ve been able to -- through a lot of new product initiatives and what have you -- expand our natural gas footprint, so the new products helped offset the lack of volatility in gas. Jonathan Casteleyn – Susquehanna: Okay. Thanks. Thanks for that commentary. Just very quickly to prop trading migration of the broker dealers, are you seeing any pause or reconstitution of any of that activity that winds up in your markets in the end markets?

Our volumes don’t seem to suggest that.

Nor does the mix of the customers. It’s been very stable. Jonathan Casteleyn – Susquehanna: Got it. Thank you.

And we’ll go next to Mark Lane with William Blair & Co. Mark Lane – William Blair & Co.: Good morning. Just a quick one on SEFs. When you think about the dialogue around defining SEFs, is there a component or two of that dialogue that you believe is concerning that could be a threat to your business that you’re watching real closely and on the opposite hand, if there is some component that you see as potentially benefiting you in a bigger way?

We have really laid out a number of internal business road maps depending upon what happens and all of them are positive for us. So really don’t see anything negative. Going to extremes, on the one hand SEFs may be very difficult to set up, require tremendous complexity and regulatory oversight and what have you, in which case the market may gravitate to what looks more like a futures model and brokers would be accessing broker functionality on one or two major platforms. Again, you could see sort of this futures style evolution which I think is – Dodd-Frank was trying to intend to push the market in the U.S. Or if the standards are low and you have -- we have 422 brokerage companies that have access to us, you could imagine 422 websites, for example, low tech things where there’s transparency and the reality is the market probably wouldn’t change much in terms of its basic business structure, other than the fact that there would be the ability to be more transparent as people ultimately upload those trades on a consolidated tape that is part of Dodd-Frank. Mark Lane – William Blair & Co.: Okay.

And in either of those, we have really unique assets that we think can help those 422 companies try to get compliance very quickly. Mark Lane – William Blair & Co.: And then just on Creditex, Scott, what is the broker headcount at the end of September versus 12 months ago?

We’re down -- I’m going to give you rough figures because I don’t have them in front of me. But when we bought the company we were at around I think 100 and change. A year ago we were probably still in the mid-90s and we’re below 90 now. Mark Lane – William Blair & Co.: We’re talking about brokers.

I think one of the important points to make is, what we’ve done is we’ve cut the brokers who weren’t getting the job done. We worked well to lock down the others. We’ve restructured other parts of the business. So what you see in our ability in a very low revenue declining revenue environment is we’ve held on to the better brokers. We’ve gotten better contractual terms. We’ve restructured the non-broker part of the business and all of that has combined to help us position the company, I think Jeff said it well, so that when the market does recover you’ll see even greater margin expansion than you typically would in a broker business. Mark Lane – William Blair & Co.: Okay. Thank you.

We’ll move next to Patrick O’Shaughnessy with Raymond James. Patrick O’Shaughnessy – Raymond James: Hey, good morning. One quick question for you guys. Can you talk about the CPC and SEC’s proposals about ownership and overall limits that they’re going to put on banks as far as clearing houses and SEFs. I know that you guys -- your position is it probably shouldn’t impact ICE trust but if you could go into a little more detail on that, I would appreciate it.

Sure. Just looking at the proposal as it was drafted, it doesn’t seem to have any impact on ICE Trusts or any of our clearing houses and at ICE Trust, specifically, the business is 100% owned by ICE. We have a royalty revenue share component that’s embedded in a security that these guys hold that give them -- that the original holders of the clearing corporation hold as part of that acquisition. And we have advisory committees, both the buy side and the risk management group, so two advisory committees that advise the Board and the Board has the ultimate say in those things. The board is constituted as a majority of independents as defined by the NYSE independence standards for public companies. There is some talk about maybe having different independent standards around SEFs and clearing houses and what have you. So we’re not exactly sure how that will play out, but our thinking is an NYSE independent director is a pretty high standard. So we don’t see really any potential changes needed to our footprint. If there were, I’m sure we would -- if things change, we’ve got very good relationship with our users and have been accomplishing the goals that users set out, particularly with respect to ICE trust, which was to get a footprint in place to start to get risk off the books and that’s been happening. Patrick O’Shaughnessy – Raymond James: All right. That’s helpful.

Let me go back quickly on the broker question. Two years ago, we had nearly 90. A year ago we had 83 and we’ve got 75 now.

And we’ll l take our final question from Daniel Harris with Goldman Sachs. Daniel Harris – Goldman Sachs: Well, better last than never, I guess. Good morning, guys, how are you?

Good. How are you?

Consider it a compliment. Daniel Harris – Goldman Sachs: I’ll shift gears here to another one of your businesses that’s doing really well. The U.S. dollar index has been a huge grower and I know you guys have focused on building up that OpEx business and your peers also had a very good run in. But are you seeing sort of transition to the futures market ahead of the peer business or are you guys doing something that’s even different than that to really grow that business?

Yeah. What we’re doing is that we’re focused on the U.S. dollar index as a very simple, easy to understand way for people to participate in foreign exchange. And the U.S. dollar index at its heart is simply -- you think the dollar’s getting stronger or weaker versus the rest of the world. And most FX as you know is traded in currency pairs. So for a person to hedge or speculate around the strengthening of the dollar you’ve got to ask yourself, compared to what, which means if you want to trade dollar, yen, you better have some intimate knowledge of what’s going on in Japan and figure out the relative merit. The dollar index just allows you to have a gut instinct over, is the dollar strengthening or weakening? And so it appeals to retail traders. It appeals to corporates that want a simple way of hedging their exposure and that’s the way we’re marketing it. We benefit from the fact that the press also views it in that regard. And Kelly talk about it every morning when he’s on the floor and it’s usually talked about before the market opens. It’s an easy way to get your arms around that concept of strengthening or weakening of the U.S. dollar. And so we put more marketing muscle into selling it that way and it’s really picked up and it’s a nice contract for us and it does give us exposure to the FX space, to FX traders, to algorithmic traders that can decompose the index. So there have been some positive spillover impacts for us as well. Daniel Harris – Goldman Sachs: Okay. Great. And then just lastly, your revenues were up something like 17% year-to-date over year-to-date last year. Your comp is only up I think 7%. So you’re getting great margin expansion there. Last year’s fourth quarter you guys had a little bit of a bump in comp. How should we be thinking about that for the fourth quarter this year?

The last year in the fourth quarter, we had a blow-out quarter and the paper performance nature of our bonus system had to be caught up in the quarter. So I think -- I hope we have, frankly, another blow-out fourth quarter and see the bonus go accordingly. But I think we’ve done a good job giving you guidance on the comp. We were at 62 to 63. We just took it down from those levels by $3 to $4 million. We talked about the efforts we made at Creditex to manage the broker expenses there. I told you that we started at 66 people at CLE. We’ll be down by two-thirds by the end of this year. So I think if you look, we’ve been very stable over the first three quarters. We’ve given guidance and improved guidance recently, so no surprises. I expect we will continue to manage it quite well in the fourth quarter of this year. Daniel Harris – Goldman Sachs: Great. Perfect, Scott. Thanks a lot, guys. Have a great day.

And that does conclude the question-and-answer session for today. At this time I would like to turn the conference back over to our speakers for any closing or additional remarks.

Again, I’d like to thank all of our customers for their business and my colleagues here for really excellent work in the quarter and we’ll look forward to talking to you all again next quarter.

And that does conclude today’s conference call. We would like to thank you for your participation.