---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-080932"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ICE"
cik: "0001571949"
company_name: "Intercontinental Exchange, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T11:09:27.683345+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ICE amends certificate of incorporation to extend voting/ownership limits to SBSEF subsidiary

## Summary
- Amends certificate of incorporation to extend existing stockholder voting/ownership limitations to security-based swap execution facilities (SBSEFs).
- Change triggered by ICE Swap Trade, LLC registering as an SBSEF with the SEC.
- Expands requirements for SEC review of future certificate amendments while ICE controls an SBSEF.
- Certificate approved by board Feb 28, 2025 and stockholders May 16, 2025; effective Aug 20, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-080932
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ICE
- cik: 0001571949
- company_name: Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571949/000110465925080932/0001104659-25-080932-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571949/000110465925080932/tm2523804d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.: Extended existing stockholder voting/ownership limitations to SBSEFs, expanded SEC review requirements, and updated registered agent address (effective 2025-08-20).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-08-20
  source text: On August 20, 2025, the Seventh Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as so amended, the “Certificate of Incorporation”) of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (the “Company”) became effective, which (1) extends existing limitations on stockholder voting and ownership to security-based swap execution facilities (“SBSEFs”) since the Company’s subsidiary ICE Swap Trade, LLC has registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) as an SBSEF, (2) expands existing requirements relating to SEC review of amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation so long as the Company controls, directly or indirectly, an SBSEF and (3) updates the address of the Company’s registered agent
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571949/000110465925080932/0001104659-25-080932-index.htm

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