FXCM Incorporated ("FXCM" or "Company") provides online foreign exchange or currency trading and services to retail and institutional customers around the globe.

According to the Complaint filed on March 2, 2011, this is a class action brought on behalf of the purchasers of FXCM common stock pursuant to its December 2010 Initial Public Offering ("IPO" or "Offering") of 15,060,000 shares of common stock (with an overallotment option of 2,259,000 shares), priced at $14.00 per share. The total price to the public in connection with this offering was over $210.8 million ($226,705,710 with the overallotment option), with underwriters' discounts and commissions totaling over $15.76 million (with the overallotment option).

FXCM, its Board of Directors at the time of the IPO, and the Underwriters involved in the Offering (including Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities, are each charged with including or allowing the inclusion of materially false and misleading statements in the Registration Statement and Prospectus (collectively, "Prospectus") issued in connection with the IPO, in direct violation of the Securities Act of 1933.

Specifically, Defendants each failed to conduct an adequate due diligence investigation into the Company prior to the IPO, and they also each failed to reveal at the time the IPO closed that the Company was not proceeding according to plan, and that FXCM's growth and trading volume had slowed or weakened by the time of the IPO, which would make it impossible for FXCM to achieve its projected results sponsored and/or endorsed by Defendants prior to and at the time of the IPO. Moreover, Defendants failed to disclose the true nature of its operations.

It was only on February 8, 2011 that the truth about FXCM began to be revealed. On that day, a Complaint was filed in the Southern District of New York, alleging inter alia violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO").

That Complaint further detailed defects and programmed gaffes in the FXCM trading platform, including: slow server command, false error messages, flash trades, arbitrary margin rules, slippage, and slow fill or no fill commands, that were each designed to transfer wealth away from the Company's customers and to FXCM in an illegal and improper manner.

On this news, FXCM stock declined from a close of $13.70 per share on February 15, 2011, to close at $12.05 per share the following day on extremely heavy volume of 2.48 million shares traded. Moreover, as the market continued to digest the adverse news about FXCM, shares of the Company continued to trade lower, reaching a low of $11.22 per share on February 23, 2010 - within only four trading days of the February 15 downgrade.

On July 1, 2011, the parties filed a notice of dismissal with prejudice. This dismissal was not the result of a settlement. The court approved the notice and formally closed the case on the same day.