December 2017: Monthly Disclosure

TOKYO, January 9, 2018 - Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) today reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries.

Global DARTs

Dec. Mar. Apr. May Aug. Nov. Dec.

2016

Jan.

Feb.

Jun.

Jul.

Sep.

Oct.

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

269,289 273,641 262,809 257,717 245,558 269,782 271,648 263,329 257,715 263,056 271,376 299,530 267,264

(Notes) 1. DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue.

2. Global DARTs are the sum of the DARTs of subsidiary securities companies under Monex Group, Inc.

Monex, Inc.

Dec. 2016

Jan. 2017

Feb. 2017

Mar. 2017

Apr. 2017

May 2017

Jun. 2017

Jul. 2017

Aug. 2017

Sep. 2017

Oct. 2017

Nov. 2017

Dec. 2017

Number of business days

21

19

20

22

20

20

22

20

22

20

21

20

21

Number of Accounts (end of month)

Number of total accounts

1,679,863

1,684,158

1,691,012

1,696,123

1,699,914

1,703,997

1,709,602

1,714,173

1,720,049

1,725,701

1,731,556

1,737,194

1,742,307

Number of active accounts in total accounts

1,016,439

1,018,325

1,020,676

1,023,369

1,024,232

1,025,762

1,030,217

1,032,023

1,034,340

1,036,609

1,039,046

1,040,506

1,039,370

Number of margin accounts

109,507

109,984

110,404

110,954

111,428

111,818

112,300

112,772

113,468

114,132

114,892

115,693

116,469

Number of active accounts in margin accounts

49,759

Customers' assets in custody (in billion yen)

3,798.4

3,792.0

3,831.7

3,803.1

3,808.1

3,872.6

3,977.3

4,000.9

4,007.9

4,098.8

4,220.6

4,271.9

4,327.5

Stock Brokerage

Average number of trades per business day

Cash

83,612

71,750

72,396

70,759

63,056

75,581

85,203

81,823

74,159

74,320

86,309

93,583

84,868

Margin

39,738

34,910

36,188

34,036

33,668

36,573

37,548

36,530

32,907

35,803

40,557

45,193

42,190

Total

123,351

106,660

108,584

104,796

96,725

112,155

122,751

118,354

107,067

110,124

126,867

138,777

127,058

Average trade value (in thousand yen)

Cash

440

397

403

440

472

464

454

401

439

429

454

469

441

Margin

760

718

701

710

710

736

793

740

699

729

814

856

764

Total

543

502

502

527

555

553

558

505

519

527

569

595

549

Monthly trade value (in billion yen)

1,408.4

1,019.1

1,091.2

1,217.1

1,074.3

1,241.4

1,507.9

1,197.5

1,223.8

1,160.8

1,517.2

1,652.1

1,465.0

Margin balance

[end of month](in billion yen)

150.0

152.9

161.5

166.0

155.5

159.1

165.3

171.3

171.6

163.3

167.0

181.7

188.7

FX Trading (OTC FX)

Number of OTC FX accounts

233,779

234,426

234,755

235,137

235,500

236,154

237,943

238,746

239,812

241,020

242,150

242,924

243,584

Number of active accounts in OTC FX accounts

66,234

66,058

65,441

65,175

64,943

64,777

65,094

65,179

65,288

65,371

65,483

64,728

64,220

Average trade value per business day

(in million yen)

140,692

198,553

155,848

108,692

95,000

122,731

105,193

98,114

97,671

144,138

115,069

145,877

109,193

DARTs

Number of DARTs (per business day)

181,477

179,379

163,924

157,294

145,949

166,308

173,075

170,120

160,516

172,099

183,656

200,463

175,329

(Notes)

  • 1. The number of total accounts:

    - "Number of total accounts" refers to the sum of brokerage accounts and FX-only accounts.

    - "Number of active accounts in total accounts" refer to accounts with balances at the end of each month or accounts which have been traded (including withdrawal) in the past 1 year.

  • 2. The number of margin accounts;

    - Monex, Inc. replaced its backbone system in January 2017, which enables it to combine margin guarantee deposits with other deposits under a customer's margin account unlike separate management of these deposits in and before December 2016. As we included the number of margin accounts with margin guarantee deposits in the "number of active accounts in margin accounts", this figure is not available anymore.

  • 3. The customers' assets in custody: -"Customers' assets in custody" include securities that have been lent to Monex, Inc. through the securities lending service program.

  • 4. Stock brokerage:

    - "Stock Brokerage" data include stocks, ETFs and REITs traded only in Japanese markets.

  • 5. FX Trading (OTC FX):

    - Monex, Inc. provides several services of FX Trading (OTC FX) and "Number of OTC FX accounts" and "Number of active accounts in OTC FX accounts" exclude duplicate active accounts at Monex, Inc.

    -"Number of active accounts in OTC FX accounts" refer to accounts with balances of FX guarantee deposits received at the end of each month or accounts which have been traded in FX accounts (including withdrawal from FX guarantee deposits) in the past 1 year.

  • 6. DARTs:

    - DARTs of Monex, Inc. comprise trades of stock brokerage, futures and options, OTC FX, mutual funds, TFX-CFD and bullion (gold, silver & platinum).

TradeStation Group

Dec. 2016

Jan. 2017

Feb. 2017

Mar. 2017

Apr. 2017

May 2017

Jun. 2017

Jul. 2017

Aug. 2017

Sep. 2017

Oct. 2017

Nov. 2017

Dec. 2017

Number of business days

20.5

20

19

23

19

22

22

20

23

20

22

20.5

19.5

Number of active accounts (end of month)

61,886

62,045

62,243

63,024

63,819

64,787

65,728

65,880

66,788

67,353

68,364

69,108

70,216

Total client assets [end of month]

(in million dollars)

4,102

4,201

4,311

4,340

4,348

4,460

4,503

4,619

4,694

4,747

4,853

4,950

5,060

Average equities clients credit balance

(in million dollars)

1,433

1,449

1,446

1,458

1,473

1,462

1,446

1,470

1,520

1,518

1,518

1,494

1,496

Average equities margin clients debit balance

(in million dollars)

64

73

79

71

72

84

90

85

79

83

84

85

86

DARTs

Number of DARTs (per business day)

89,059

95,505

99,588

101,121

100,543

104,339

99,261

93,932

97,722

91,133

88,571

99,697

92,927

(Notes) 1. "Active accounts" mean the number of accounts (equities, futures etc) whose balance is more than 200 dollars or which have been traded in the past 6 months as of the end of each month.

2. DARTs of TradeStation Group are the number of revenue generating trades in a securities company under TradeStation Group, Inc. DARTs mainly include the DARTs of stocks, futures and options.

*The preliminary numbers reported above may be updated in the future.

Contact: Akiko Kato, Yumi Matsuzaki, Toshiaki Koike

Corporate Communications Office

Monex Group, Inc.

+81-3-4323-8698

Atsushi Demoto, Yuki Nakano

Investor Relations, Financial Control Department

Monex Group, Inc.

+81-3-4323-8698

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