Acquisition

Numis Corporation PLC
13 July 2004


                              For immediate release


Numis Corporation Plc ('the Company')
Investment in comdirect Limited ('comdirect')


Following the Company's announcement on 16 June 2004 that it had entered into an
agreement, conditional on FSA approval, to acquire 26.3 per cent (fully diluted)
of the issued share capital of comdirect, the Company announces that it received
the approval letter from the FSA on 12 July 2004 and completion of the agreement
took place today.


13 July 2004

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