ICE Aug. ADV For Futures & Options Up 2% - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Global markets operator IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) reported futures volume for August 2013. ICE's average daily volume or ADV for futures and options was 2.97 million contracts, a 2% growth from 2.9 million contracts in the prior-year month. Total volume in August 2013 amounted to 65 million contracts.

ICE said it expects to launch ICE Swap Trade, ICE's swap execution facility, in the third quarter with support from leading credit market participants. ICE and Cetip announced that the ICE Link post-trade solution was extended to the Brazilian bond market on Cetip's trading platform.