ICE is so important to the investing community around the world because now, one-third of the world’s global cash trading flows through its systems; it trades more than 50% of the world’s crude and refined oil futures contracts; it lists 90% of the Dow Jones Industrial 1000 and 78% of S&P 500 listed companies; it introduced 120 Initial Public Offering (IPO) transactions, raising $36.9 billion in 2012; and it currently captures 53% market share of all technology IPOs through the third quarter of 2013.