Intercontinental Exchange Acquires risQ and Level 11 Analytics

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Acquires American Financial Exchange (AFX)

January 13, 2025

Financial Services

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has acquired 100% of the American Financial Exchange (AFX) from 7RIDGE. The purchase brings AFX's interbank lending marketplace and the AMERIBOR benchmark into ICE's broader index and mortgage technology network to expand capabilities for regional, midsize and community banks.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Acquires Urgentem

July 21, 2022

Data & Analytics

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has acquired Urgentem, a provider of global corporate emissions and climate transition data, to expand ICE's climate risk and sustainable finance offerings. Urgentem supplies Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions data and analytics for over 30,000 public and private securities; terms were not disclosed and the deal is not expected to be material to ICE's financials.

Riskonnect Acquires ICIX to Expand ESG and Supply Chain Governance Capabilities

October 7, 2021

Software

Riskonnect has acquired ICIX, a California-based value chain governance and ESG technology provider, to expand its integrated risk management (IRM) product suite and strengthen ESG and supply chain capabilities. The acquisition will integrate ICIX's trading network and analytics into Riskonnect's platform and give ICIX customers access to Riskonnect's RMIS, GRC, and healthcare risk solutions; terms were not disclosed.

Morningstar Sustainalytics Acquires Aquantix

June 29, 2022

Data & Analytics

Morningstar Sustainalytics has acquired Aquantix, a Montreal-based property-level climate risk data and modelling company. The acquisition strengthens Sustainalytics' climate capabilities by adding Aquantix's AI-powered models and property-level geospatial data for real estate, mortgage lenders, banks, and insurers.

Intercontinental Exchange Acquires Ellie Mae from Thoma Bravo

August 6, 2020

Financial Services

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) entered into and completed an agreement to acquire Ellie Mae, the cloud-based mortgage origination platform, from private equity firm Thoma Bravo for approximately $11 billion. The transaction (closed September 4, 2020) expands ICE's mortgage technology capabilities by integrating Ellie Mae's digital lending platform into ICE Mortgage Technology and combines origination, post-closing and registry solutions across the U.S. mortgage lifecycle.

Inverness Graham-backed Alliant Acquires AnalyticsIQ

June 30, 2025

Data & Analytics

Alliant, the marketing data and analytics platform backed by private equity firm Inverness Graham, has acquired AnalyticsIQ, a predictive analytics and people-based marketing data company. The deal (terms undisclosed) brings AnalyticsIQ's audience modeling and cognitive-psychology-driven data into Alliant's transactional audience graph and names AnalyticsIQ CEO Scarlett Shipp as CEO of the combined business.