Holding in Company

Close Brothers Group PLC
26 January 2001


                                 SCHEDULE 10

                  NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1) Name of company

CLOSE BROTHERS GROUP plc

2) Name of shareholder having a major interest

FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, and Fidelity International
Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries.

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

Non-beneficial shareholding of shareholder named in 2.

4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them

State Street Nominees Limited                          4,000

Chase Nomineees Limited                              100,000

State Street Nominees Limited                         22,700

Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited       757,964

Bankers Trust                                        135,400

Gracechurch Nominees                                  20,300

RBS Trust Bank                                       172,050

Citibank                                              86,200

Nortrust Nominees Limited                            354,700

Chase Nominees Limited                               203,200

HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited            125,400

BT Globenet Nominees Limited                          16,450

MSS Nominees Limited                                  34,900

Nortrust Nominees Limited                            279,550

Bankers Trust                                        184,402

Mellon Trust                                          78,100

State Street Nominees Limited                        275,400

RBS Trust Bank                                       825,850

Chase Nominees Limited                                26,900

Citibank                                              22,700

Bank of New York Europe                              216,753

KAS Associate                                         18,500

Northern Trust                                       166,060

RBS-EDINBURG                                          23,800

Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited         1,470

HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited             11,310

5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

N/A

6) Percentage of issued class

N/A

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

N/A

8) Percentage of issued class

N/A

9) Class of security

Ordinary Shares of 25p each

10) Date of transaction

N/A

11) Date company informed

26th January 2001

12) Total holding following this notification

4,164,059


13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

3.06%

14) Any additional information



15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

ROBIN SELLERS 020 7655 3100

16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification

Date of notification ..26th January...2001