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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation
Basis of Presentation
The unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or U.S. GAAP, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, regarding interim financial reporting. Accordingly, the unaudited consolidated financial statements do not include all of the information and notes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2024. The unaudited consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments that are, in our opinion, necessary for a fair presentation of results for the interim periods presented. We believe that these adjustments are of a normal recurring nature.
Preparing financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires us to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements and accompanying disclosures. Actual amounts could differ from those estimates. The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period or the full fiscal year.
These statements include the accounts of our wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions between us and our wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries have been eliminated in consolidation. For consolidated subsidiaries in which our ownership is less than 100% and for which we have control over the assets and liabilities and the management of the entity, the non-ICE interests are shown as non-controlling interests. When non-controlling interests hold an option to require us to repurchase their interests, these amounts are shown as redeemable non-controlling interests and could be subject to remeasurement.
We have considered the impacts of macroeconomic conditions during the quarter, including interest rates, inflation rates, changes in tariffs and trade policies, geopolitical events and military conflicts, including repercussions from, and the impacts that, any of the foregoing may have on the global economy and on our business. As of March 31, 2025, our businesses and operations, including our exchanges, clearing houses, listings venues, data services businesses and mortgage platforms, have not suffered a material negative impact as a result of these events. There continues to be uncertainty surrounding the current macroeconomic environment and the impact that it may have on the global economy and on our business.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
As disclosed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, or the 2024 Form 10-K, we adopted Accounting Standards Update, or ASU, 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures as of December 31, 2024. This ASU requires many of the updates made in our annual segment disclosures to also be made in interim periods. We applied the new interim period requirements in Note 14, including retrospective updates to the prior interim period presented.
During the three months ended March 31, 2025, there were no other significant changes to the new and recently adopted accounting pronouncements applicable to us from those disclosed in the 2024 Form 10-K.
Equity Investments Without Readily Determinable Fair Values
Our equity investments without readily determinable fair values are included in other non-current assets in our consolidated balance sheets. For these investments, we apply the measurement alternative in Accounting Standards Codification, or ASC, 321, Investments - Equity Securities, or ASC 321. Under the measurement alternative, these investments are recorded at cost minus any impairment, and adjusted to fair value if and when there is an observable price change in an orderly transaction for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer, with any change in fair value recognized in net income. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, there were no material adjustments made to the carrying values of these investments.
Revenue Recognition
Substantially all of our revenues are considered to be revenues from contracts with customers. The related accounts receivable balances are recorded in our consolidated balance sheets as customer accounts receivable. We do not have obligations for warranties, returns or refunds to customers, other than rebates, which are settled each period and therefore do not result in variable consideration. We do not have significant revenue recognized from performance obligations that were satisfied in prior periods. Certain judgments and estimates are used in the identification and timing of satisfaction of performance obligations and the related allocation of transaction price. We believe that these represent a faithful depiction of the transfer of services to our customers.
Deferred revenue represents our contract liabilities related to our annual, original and other listings revenues, certain data services, clearing services, mortgage technology services and other revenues. See Note 5 for our discussion of deferred revenue balances, activity, and expected timing of recognition.
For all of our contracts with customers, except for listings and certain data, clearing and mortgage services, our performance obligations are short term in nature and there is no significant variable consideration. In addition, we have elected the practical expedient of excluding sales taxes from transaction prices.
Refer to Notes 2 and 5 to the consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of our 2024 Form 10-K where we describe our revenue recognition accounting policies and our primary revenue contract classifications in detail.