FXCM Reports Monthly Metrics

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NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FXCM (NYSE:FXCM) today announced certain key customer trading metrics for August 2016 for its retail and institutional foreign exchange business.

August 2016 Customer Trading Metrics from Continuing Operations ⁽¹⁾

Retail Customer Trading Metrics

• Retail customer trading volume ⁽²⁾ of $270 billion in August 2016, 4% lower than July 2016 and 18% lower than August 2015.
• Average retail customer trading volume ⁽²⁾ per day of $11.7 billion in August 2016, 13% lower than July 2016 and 25% lower than August 2015.
• An average of 494,626 retail client trades per day in August 2016, 14% lower than July 2016 and 17% lower than August 2015.
• Active accounts ⁽³⁾ of 175,757 as of August 31, 2016, a decrease of 863, or 0.5%, from July 31, 2016, and a decrease of 4,965, or 3%, from August 31, 2015.
• Tradeable accounts ⁽⁴⁾ of 173,448 as of August 31, 2016, an increase of 1,779 accounts, or 1% from July 31, 2016, and an increase of 15,148 accounts, or 10%, from August 31, 2015.

Institutional Customer Trading Metrics

• Institutional customer trading volume ⁽²⁾ of $26 billion in August 2016, 37% lower than July 2016 and 45% lower than August 2015.
• Average institutional customer trading volume ⁽²⁾ per day of $1.1 billion in August 2016, 45% lower than July 2016 and 52% lower than August 2015.
• An average of 36,960 institutional client trades per day in August 2016, 8% lower than July 2016 and 6% higher than August 2015.

More information, including historical results for each of the above metrics, can be found on the investor relations page of FXCM's corporate website www.fxcm.com.

This operating data is preliminary and subject to revision and should not be taken as an indication of the financial performance of FXCM Inc. FXCM undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review previously reported operating data. Any updates to previously reported operating data will be reflected in the historical operating data that can be found on the Investor Relations page of the Company's corporate website www.fxcm.com.