Holding in Company

Close Brothers Group PLC
17 September 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

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

Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited   987,854
 
Bankers Trust                                    124,100

Bank of New York Europe                           48,044

RBS Trust Bank                                    73,750

Citibank                                          61,900

Nortrust Nominees Limited                        285,200

Chase Nominees Limited                           146,100

HSBC Client Holdings Nominees (UK) Limited       101,600

MSS Nominees Limitd                               15,195

BT Globenet Nominees Limited                      11,750

MSS Nominees Limited                              79,600

Nortrust Nominees Limited                        281,190

Bankers Trust                                    226,712

Mellon Trust                                      85,130

State Street Nominees Limited                    286,230

RBS Trust Bank                                   560,960

Chase Nominees Limited                            10,500

Citibank                                          13,500

Bank of New York Europe                          179,653

KAS Associatie                                    26,090

Northern Trust                                   381,700

RBS-EDINBURG                                      32,430

HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited            310

Morgan Stanley                                    23,900

JP Morgan                                         60,350

Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited    58,300


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

14th September 2001

12)  Total holding following this notification

4,162,048


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

SIMON WATSON 020 7655 3100

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

R.D. SELLERS


Date of notification   14th September 2001