Directorate Change

Secure Trust Banking Group PLC
10 February 2005



                   SECURE TRUST BANKING GROUP PLC 

                 APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR


We are pleased to announce that Mr. M.F. Brown, the Chief Executive of the
investment banking subsidiary Arbuthnot Securities Limited, has today been
appointed a Director of the Company.


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