Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to Acquire Black Knight

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to Acquire MarketAxess Holdings for $5.7 Billion

August 2, 2026

Financial Services

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MarketAxess Holdings for $167 per share in cash, valuing the transaction at about $5.7 billion on an enterprise-value basis. The combined fixed-income marketplace is designed to integrate electronic execution and market data with ICE’s broader retail and wealth trading franchise.

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) and Victory Park Capital Complete Bakkt Merger with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings

October 15, 2021

Payments & Fintech

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced that Bakkt Holdings, LLC completed its merger with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings (VIH). The combined company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on October 18, 2021 under the ticker “BKKT,” following shareholder approval and customary closing conditions.

Black Knight Acquires eMBS Inc.

May 17, 2021

Data & Analytics

Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE: BKI) has acquired eMBS Inc., a Tampa-based provider of performance data and analytics for agency-backed mortgage securities. The acquisition adds agency MBS data and analytics to Black Knight’s mortgage data and analytics ecosystem to enhance its secondary market offerings and modeling capabilities.

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.

Black Knight Acquires Compass Analytics

September 12, 2019

Financial Services

Black Knight, Inc. acquired Compass Analytics, LLC, a San Francisco–based provider of mortgage secondary-market pricing, valuation and MSR analytics. The deal expands Black Knight's capital markets capabilities by adding Compass Analytics' CompassPoint PPE platform, MSR valuation tools and connectivity between lenders, investors and servicers.