SEC Approves ICE Trade Vault as Security-based Swap Data Repository

Fazzaco learned that Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, announced that ICE Trade Vault, ICE's Trade Repository located in the United States, has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a security-based swap data repository (SDR) and securities information processor (SIC).

With this approval, ICE Trade Vault can now operate as a registered SDR for security-based swap (SBS) transactions in credit derivatives.

ICE Trade Vault provides transparency to the SBS market and publicly disseminates trade information. Since launch, ICE Trade Vault and ICE Trade Vault Europe have collectively accepted more than 4.5 billion trades across energy, agricultural commodities, metals, credit, interest rates and equity derivatives.

Melissa Ratnala, Chief Operating Officer of ICE Trade Vault, said: "This approval from the SEC means that we can now offer customers trade reporting services for single-name credit derivatives in the U.S. and further expand the regulatory jurisdictions to which we offer services."