Benjamin Jackson

President, Intercontinental Exchange

Search every verified Benjamin Jackson interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Benjamin Jackson, president of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), discussed the company’s launch of its ETF Hub platform, which aims to modernize the primary market for exchange-traded funds. In December 2019, he described the hub as a communication, negotiation, transaction, and settlement platform designed to reduce friction in the creation and redemption process of ETFs. He noted that ICE developed the platform with input from asset managers, issuers, market makers, and banks, and that it went live in October 2019, with fixed income trading added in November of that year. Jackson stated that the platform saw growing volume and transactions, including trades across 17 fixed income ETFs during a holiday week, and that plans for 2020 included introducing a complex basket negotiation facility. In earlier appearances, Jackson addressed ICE’s broader strategy in fixed income and its acquisitions, including BondPoint and TMC, which he said filled a gap in the execution side of the company’s offerings. He also highlighted inefficiencies in the fixed income market, such as manual rekeying of information multiple times per transaction, and pointed to the rapid growth of fixed income ETFs as a sign of continued demand. Jackson credited major issuers like BlackRock, Vanguard, Invesco, and State Street for engaging with ICE on the ETF Hub’s design, and he described the primary ETF market as previously being “completely analog” with disconnected systems.