Director Shareholding

Numis Corporation PLC
07 July 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

The Board of Numis announces that, on 6 July 2004, it approved a variation of
the terms of options over 183,000 (0.94%) ordinary shares in Numis to Oliver
Hemsley, a director of Numis. These options over 183,000 ordinary shares were
granted on 7 July 1997 at 105p per share under the Numis Unapproved Executive
Share Option Scheme ('the Scheme') with a latest exercise date of 7 years from
the date of grant, being 7 July 2004. The terms of these options are varied so
that the latest exercise date becomes 10 years from the date of grant, being 7
July 2007. This variation aligns the options held by Oliver Hemsley with most of
the options held by participants in the Scheme.

The ordinary shares referred to are Numis' ordinary shares of 25p per share and
the total number of shares in issue is 19,418,253.

7 July 2004

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