UNITED STATES: ICE Announces Launch of ICE IDs for Private Credit

Tuesday July 28 2026

On 27^th July 2026, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) announced the launch of a new classification service that creates unique, persistent identifiers (IDs) for private credit instruments for the first time.

The new identifiers, ICE IDs, are a key part of ICE Private Credit Intelligence, an industry-wide initiative started by ICE and Apollo to build the foundational data infrastructure for the private credit market. ICE IDs will span the investment lifecycle from origination through to the final payoff date and closure of each instrument, including through potential credit events. As an anchor partner, Apollo now applies ICE IDs to its originated credit assets.

ICE leveraged its experience in reference data to launch ICE IDs and plans to offer additional new datasets through ICE Private Credit Intelligence later this year. As a leading provider of global reference data, ICE offers terms and conditions and corporate actions on over 35 million financial instruments covering more than 210 markets including exchanges and Alternative Trading Systems (ATS). Reference data provides the foundational data for securities that are used for a range of functions, including trading, decision support, order management, clearance, compliance, settlement, reporting and risk management.

ICE Private Credit Intelligence was created to establish a private credit infrastructure layer that is consistent with the experience of public credit markets. It offers secure, permissioned data sharing that utilizes a standardized reference data set to enable the flow of deal-level information with authorized counterparties, without exposing proprietary data. It also offers a scalable data extraction and distribution model, leveraging ICE’s technology stack to ingest deal documents, extract key terms and data points, and distribute secured, consistent information at scale.

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