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Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Escrow Period

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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.9-03.16)
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 944
-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
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-Publisher SEC
-Name Regulation S-X (SX)
-Number 210
-Section 02
-Paragraph 19, 20, 22
-Article 5

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Generally recurring costs associated with normal operations except for the portion of these expenses which can be clearly related to production and included in cost of sales or services. Excludes Selling, General and Administrative Expense.

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The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalent items which are restricted as to withdrawal or usage. Restrictions may include legally restricted deposits held as compensating balances against short-term borrowing arrangements, contracts entered into with others, or entity statements of intention with regard to particular deposits; however, time deposits and short-term certificates of deposit are not generally included in legally restricted deposits. Excludes compensating balance arrangements that are not agreements which legally restrict the use of cash amounts shown on the balance sheet. For a classified balance sheet represents the current portion only (the noncurrent portion has a separate concept); there is a separate and distinct element for unclassified presentations.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.1)
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Cash and equivalents whose use in whole or in part is restricted for the long-term, generally by contractual agreements or regulatory requirements.

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Short-Term and Long-Term Restricted Cash and Investments Short-Term and Long-Term Restricted Cash and Investments (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Jan. 02, 2014
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	$ 657	$ 329
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent	$ 263	297
United Kingdom Recognized Investment Exchanges [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Operating Costs Covered For Period	6 months
Dcm Dco Designation For Ice Futures United States [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Operating Costs Covered For Period	1 year
Other Regulated Entities [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	$ 13	6
ICE Clear Netherlands [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	11	12
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent		24
DCM, DCO, SDR, and SEF Designated Entities [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	142	42
Operating Costs and Expenses	142	49
Long-term Line of Credit		7
Ice Futures Europe [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	57
LIFFE [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	106	114
ICE Clear Europe
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	87
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent		100
SuperDerivatives [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	44
Combined Cds Guaranty Fund Contributions [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent		78
Futures and Options Products [Member] \| ICE Clear Europe
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent	100
CDS Products [Member] \| Ice Clear Us [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent			$ 50
CDS Products [Member] \| Ice Clear Credit [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent	50
CDS Products [Member] \| ICE Clear Europe
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Noncurrent	$ 50	28
Maximum [Member] \| SuperDerivatives [Member]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, Escrow Period	18 months
EMIR Capital Requirement [Member] \| ICE Clear Europe
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	$ 274
DCM DCO Designation for ICE Clear Europe [Member] \| ICE Clear Europe
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents Items [Line Items]
Short-term restricted cash and investments	$ 139	$ 107