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Blaugrund Outlines ICE’s Moves to Grow New Markets

Blaugrund outlines ICE's focus on building next-generation infrastructure for trading, clearing, settlement and capital formation.

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By Sean McMahon 03/09/26

FinanceModern Money

Michael Blaugrund, ICE

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Day One of our coverage from the Futures Industry Association’s Global Cleared Markets Conference concludes with this conversation with Michael Blaugrund, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Blaugrund outlines ICE’s focus on building next-generation infrastructure for trading, clearing, settlement and capital formation. Blaugrund also discusses:

  • The recent move by ICE to launch a tokenized equities platform, offering 24/7 tokenized trading with on-chain settlement versus stablecoins.
  • ICE’s investment in Polymarket and plans to use the platform’s signals in traditional markets, including crypto, FX rates, equity indices and single names.
  • How ICE leverages its exclusive relationship with Reddit to parse data and generate trading signals and sentiment data, providing unique insights for market participants.