Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) Piper Sandler Global Exchange and Fintech Conference June 3, 2026 10:00 AM EDT
Company Participants
Stuart Williams – Chief Operating Officer
Conference Call Participants
Patrick Moley – Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division
Presentation
Patrick Moley
Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division
Next up, we have Stuart Williams. Stuart is the Chief Operating Officer of ICE, the company behind the New York Stock Exchange, world’s leading energy futures complex and a growing mortgage technology business. Lately, ICE has become one of the more aggressive traditional players moving into more innovative asset classes like prediction markets and digital assets through its investments in Polymarket and OKX as well as its own plans to build infrastructure for tokenized security. So Stuart, thanks so much for joining us.
Stuart Williams
Chief Operating Officer
Appreciate the invite. Good to be here, Patrick.
Question-and-Answer Session
Patrick Moley
Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division
Yes. And I think the timing is good. We saw the announcement this morning that you’re joining Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview AI model and you’re integrating that into your cybersecurity. So I wanted to — just given the timing of that, maybe open up the floor, what went into that? How much of a focus is cybersecurity for you? And maybe just talk about that partnership.
Stuart Williams
Chief Operating Officer
Yes, sure. So good morning, everybody. Good to be here. Look, cybersecurity has been a key part of our infrastructure right from the outset when we started the company. And so it’s been an area that we’ve invested in heavily because as you will imagine, given the assets that form part of our group, we are a natural target for cyber attacks. And so this is an area we’ve had a lot of innovation and a lot of investment in over the years. We’ve been leveraging AI ourselves, both
