ICE Clear Europe is authorised as a Recognised Clearing House under the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and supervised by the Bank of England. ICE Clear Europe provides clearing services for futures and options contracts traded on ICE Futures Europe, ICE Endex, ICE Futures U.S. Energy Division and ICE Futures Abu Dhabi.

ICE Clear Europe is also: (i) designated as a Derivatives Clearing Organisation by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); (ii) recognised as a third-country central counterparty under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) (iii) recognised as a foreign central counterparty by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA); (iv) recognised as a Remote Clearing House by the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Financial Services Regulation Authority (FSRA); and (v) recognised as an inter-bank payment system under the Banking Act 2009.

ICE Clear Europe has received settlement finality designation under the Financial Markets and Insolvency (Settlement Finality) Regulations 1999 (SFR), which enhances the systemic risk protection provided to clearing members in the event of a clearing counterparty default. Under SFR, payment instructions within ICE Clear Europe’s system can be protected from administrators or liquidators of insolvent firms.