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Clearing Organizations (Assets Pledged by Clearing Members as Original Margin and Guaranty Fund Deposits for ICE Clearing Houses) (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	Jun. 30, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
ICE Clear U.S. | Original Margin [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Government securities at face value	$ 7,851	$ 5,011
Letters of credit	0	0
Gold	0	0
Total Original Margin	7,851	5,011
ICE Clear U.S. | Guaranty Fund [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Guaranty Fund: Government securities at face value	215	267
ICE Clear Europe | Original Margin [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Government securities at face value	17,741	15,670
Letters of credit	0	1,386
Gold	100	92
Total Original Margin	17,841	17,148
ICE Clear Europe | Guaranty Fund [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Guaranty Fund: Government securities at face value	306	268
ICE Clear Canada | Original Margin [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Government securities at face value	95	93
Letters of credit	4	4
Gold	0	0
Total Original Margin	99	97
ICE Clear Canada | Guaranty Fund [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Guaranty Fund: Government securities at face value	14	19
ICE Clear Credit | Original Margin [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Government securities at face value	2,835	2,620
Letters of credit	0	0
Gold	0	0
Total Original Margin	2,835	2,620
ICE Clear Credit | Guaranty Fund [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Guaranty Fund: Government securities at face value	333	516
TCC | Original Margin [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Government securities at face value	0	0
Letters of credit	0	0
Gold	0	0
Total Original Margin	0	0
TCC | Guaranty Fund [Member]
Clearing Organizations [Line Items]
Guaranty Fund: Government securities at face value	$ 1	$ 1

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Gold carrying value.

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Letter Of Credit

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Total guaranty fund

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Total original margin

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Debt (bills, notes or bonds) that are issued by the government of the United States which are short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Generally, only investments with original maturities of three months or less qualify under that definition. Original maturity means original maturity to the entity holding the investment. For example, both a three-month US Treasury bill and a three-year Treasury note purchased three months from maturity qualify as cash equivalents. However, a Treasury note purchased three-years ago does not become a cash equivalent when its remaining maturity is three months.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Glossary Cash Equivalents

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6507016

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