Director Shareholding

Numis Corporation PLC
17 February 2004

                                 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

Directors' dealings

The Board of Numis announces that it was notified today that, on 13 February
2004, two directors of Numis acquired ordinary shares in Numis under the Scrip
Dividend Scheme at 552.5p per share, as follows:

Name          Shares     % of shares in     Total no. of shares   % of shares
              acquired   issue              now                   in
                                            held                  issue

Oliver        215        0.001%             2,925,488             15.52%
Hemsley

Charles       928        0.005%             317,318               1.68%
Crick



Share dealings

The Board of Numis also announces that it was notified today that, on 13
February 2004, the Numis Employee Share Trust ('the Trust') acquired 5,505
(0.029%) ordinary shares in Numis under the Scrip Dividend Scheme at 552.5p per
share.

On 16 February 2004, options over 96,700 (0.51%) ordinary shares in Numis held
by the Trust were surrendered. These options were at an exercise price of 207p
per ordinary share and the latest exercise date was 21 December 2010.

Subsequently, on 16 February 2004, the Trust disposed of 96,700 (0.51%) ordinary
shares in Numis at 207p per ordinary share to a discretionary trust established
by the beneficiary who had surrendered options as set out above. The Trust now
holds 937,769 (4.98%) ordinary shares in Numis.

The ordinary shares referred to are Numis' ordinary shares of 25p per share and
the total number of shares in issue is 18,848,447.


17 February 2004


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