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Core values

ICE was founded in 2000 on a commitment to transform commodity markets and solve problems for our customers. Over the years, as the company has evolved, we have relied on a set of core values to guide our continued success. These values have served us well through periods of significant growth and geographic and business diversification. They are built into our Code of Conduct, our annual performance and compensation reviews, our learning and development programs and form the basis of our employee survey. They are revisited on a regular basis by our executive management team and refreshed when needed.

Collaboration

We work as one team focused on a common set of objectives and committed to each others success.

Problem Solving

We focus on identifying and solving our customers' needs and make well-informed, quick decisions.

Communication

We communicate clearly, constructively and frequently.

Integrity & Professionalism

We hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards.

Leadership

We lead by example.

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Employee Engagement

We use a mix of methods to measure engagement and identify areas of concern or opportunity. These include employee surveys, performance reviews, an “always-on” approach to feedback and a culture that encourages an inquisitive environment generally. Each of these inputs contributes to a more complete picture that allows us to assess trends and take actions as needed. Additional details, including on our employee survey results, can be found in our annual sustainability report.

Turnover

Due to M&A activity, we sometimes see significant increases and decreases in our headcount year to year related to acquisitions and divestitures. As it relates to onboarding employees from acquired companies, our onboarding methodologies are similar to our new hire onboarding methodologies in that they address the wide spectrum of important topics ranging from learning about our business, operating using our core values, understanding our policies and making meaningful connections.

We pay close attention to our voluntary attrition rates and believe it's an important indicator. In recent years, that rate has remained below relevant and comparable benchmark levels in both the finance and technology sectors. Additional detail can be found in our annual sustainability report.

Year	Rate
2023	8.1%
2022	14.2%
2021	10.5%
2020	5.5%
2019	8.3%
1 Includes all full-time employees across our global locations, excluding Black Knight.

Our employees

To hold ourselves accountable and provide transparency on our path to increasing diversity throughout our employee population, we publish diversity metrics, including our annual EEO-1 data. In addition to publishing our EEO-1 submissions, we provide the data using categories more closely aligned to our employee population broken out by gender and race / ethnicity for the US and UK populations. This data can be found in our annual sustainability reports.

Working with and reaching out to organizations to help attract a diverse pool of candidates
Providing hiring managers with training to help drive inclusive hiring practices
Creating a diverse slate of interviewers for candidates to interact with
Drafting inclusive job requirements that do not unnecessarily exclude qualified candidates
Training spanning the spectrum of anti-harassment and anti-bias training for employees, to driving retention and development through our leadership and management training programs

We take a systemic approach to pay parity to ensure it is fair irrespective of gender or race, including conducting formal reviews of compensation on a “like for like” job basis. Any anomalies discovered in our review are swiftly corrected.

Labor relations

We comply with all collective bargaining laws in the jurisdictions where we operate. Of our total employee base, less than 1% is subject to collective bargaining agreements, and such relations are considered to be good.

Gender Pay Ratio (United Kingdom)

In line with UK Government regulations, we report on the gender pay ratio at our Interactive Data European subsidiary.

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