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Segment Reporting
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Reporting
Segment Reporting
We operate two business segments: our Trading and Clearing segment and our Data and Listings segment. This presentation is reflective of how our chief operating decision maker reviews and operates our business. Our Trading and Clearing segment comprises our transaction-based execution and clearing businesses. Our Data and Listings segment comprises our data services and our securities listings businesses, which are both largely subscription-based. Our chief operating decision maker does not review total assets or statements of income below operating income by segments; therefore, such information is not presented below. Our two segments do not engage in intersegment transactions.

Certain prior year segment expenses have been reclassified to conform to our current year’s segment financial statement presentation, as follows:
In 2018, we began tracking fixed income and credit revenues separately as a result of acquisitions.
Exchange data revenues increased by $76 million and $66 million in 2017 and 2016, respectively, and desktops and connectivity revenues decreased by the same amount as a result of reclassifying feeds revenues to be included with exchange data revenues.
Operating expenses for the Data and Listings segment increased by $55 million in 2016 while decreasing the operating expenses for the Trading and Clearing segment by the same amount. 

Financial data for our business segments is as follows in 2018, 2017 and 2016 (in millions):
 
Year Ended
 December 31, 2018
 
Year Ended
December 31, 2017
 
Year Ended
December 31, 2016
 
Trading and Clearing Segment
 
Data and Listings Segment
 
Consolidated
 
Trading and Clearing Segment
 
Data and Listings Segment
 
Consolidated
 
Trading and Clearing Segment
 
Data and Listings Segment
 
Consolidated
Revenues:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Energy futures and options contracts
$
965

 
$

 
$
965

 
$
909

 
$

 
$
909

 
$
865

 
$

 
$
865

Agricultural and metals futures and options contracts
251

 

 
251

 
216

 

 
216

 
228

 

 
228

Financial futures and options contracts
354

 

 
354

 
326

 

 
326

 
318

 

 
318

Cash equities and equity options
1,624

 

 
1,624

 
1,491

 

 
1,491

 
1,780

 

 
1,780

Fixed income and credit
240

 

 
240

 
139

 

 
139

 
143

 

 
143

OTC and other transactions
49

 

 
49

 
50

 

 
50

 
50

 

 
50

Pricing and analytics

 
1,043

 
1,043

 

 
970

 
970

 

 
858

 
858

Exchange data and feeds

 
670

 
670

 

 
632

 
632

 

 
602

 
602

Desktops and connectivity

 
402

 
402

 

 
482

 
482

 

 
518

 
518

Listings

 
444

 
444

 

 
426

 
426

 

 
432

 
432

Other revenues
234

 

 
234

 
202

 

 
202

 
177

 

 
177

Revenues
3,717

 
2,559

 
6,276

 
3,333

 
2,510

 
5,843

 
3,561

 
2,410

 
5,971

Transaction-based expenses
1,297

 

 
1,297

 
1,205

 

 
1,205

 
1,459

 

 
1,459

Revenues, less transaction-based expenses
2,420

 
2,559

 
4,979

 
2,128

 
2,510

 
4,638

 
2,102

 
2,410

 
4,512

Operating expenses
911

 
1,485

 
2,396

 
781

 
1,478

 
2,259

 
826

 
1,514

 
2,340

Operating income
$
1,509

 
$
1,074

 
$
2,583

 
$
1,347

 
$
1,032

 
$
2,379

 
$
1,276

 
$
896

 
$
2,172


Revenue from one clearing member of the Trading and Clearing segment comprised $406 million, or 17% of our Trading and Clearing revenues in 2018. Revenue from two clearing members of the Trading and Clearing segment comprised $477 million, or 22% of our Trading and Clearing revenues in 2017. Revenue from one clearing member of the Trading and Clearing segment comprised $221 million, or 11% of our Trading and Clearing revenues in 2016. Clearing members are primarily intermediaries and represent a broad range of principal trading firms. If a clearing member ceased its operations, we believe that the trading firms would continue to conduct transactions and would clear those transactions through another clearing member firm. No additional customers or clearing members accounted for more than 10% of our segment revenues or consolidated revenues in 2018, 2017 and 2016.

Geographical Information

The following represents our revenues, less transaction-based expenses, net assets and net property and equipment based on the geographic location (in millions):
 
United States
 
Foreign Countries
 
Total
Revenues, less transaction-based expenses:
 
 
 
 
 
Year ended December 31, 2018
$
3,087

 
$
1,892

 
$
4,979

Year ended December 31, 2017
$
2,807

 
$
1,831

 
$
4,638

Year ended December 31, 2016
$
2,757

 
$
1,755

 
$
4,512

Net assets:
 
 
 
 
 
As of December 31, 2018
$
9,226

 
$
8,005

 
$
17,231

As of December 31, 2017
$
9,152

 
$
7,833

 
$
16,985

Property and equipment, net:
 
 
 
 
 
As of December 31, 2018
$
1,125

 
$
116

 
$
1,241

As of December 31, 2017
$
1,134

 
$
112

 
$
1,246


The foreign countries category above primarily relates to the U.K. and to a lesser extent, EU, Israel, Canada and Singapore.