Director Shareholding

Numis Corporation PLC
09 December 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

EBT purchase

The Board of Numis announces that, on 8 December 2004, the Numis Employee Share
Trust ('EBT' or 'the Trust') purchased 47,500 (0.24%) Numis shares at price of
715p per share.


Directors' dealings


The Board of Numis also announces that, on 8 December 2004, Intercapital Private
Group Limited ('IPGL') purchased 47,500 (0.24%) Numis shares at 715p per share
as follows:


Name     Shares acquired    % of shares in    Total shares now held   % of shares in
                            issue                                     issue
IPGL     47,500             0.24              1,875,500               9.57


Michael Spencer (non-executive Chairman of Numis) is Chairman of IPGL. Michael
Spencer, together with his wife, owns approximately 46.7 per cent of IPGL's
issued share capital.  Michael Spencer is deemed under the Companies Act 1985 to
be interested in the entire issued share capital of IPGL.



The Board also announces that, on 8 December 2004, Duncan Sweetland (an
executive director) disposed of 35,000 (0.18%) Numis shares at 715p per share
(as set out below) to facilitate option arrangements.


Name                 Shares disposed      % of shares in issue Total shares now held  % of shares in
                                                                                      issue

Duncan Sweetland     35,000               0.18                 38,703                 0.20





The Board of Numis also announces that, on 8 December 2004, it approved the
issue and allotment of 106,600 (0.54%) Numis shares to the Trust at an average
price of 217.72p per share.



This follows the surrender of options over 106,600 Numis shares, by Duncan
Sweetland under the Numis Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme and the grant
of options over 106,600 Numis shares held by the Trust on the same terms, as
follow:


Number of options over ordinary shares        Subscription price/p             Latest exercise date
               in Numis
                36,600                               107.5p                       18 October 2006
                40,000                               292.5p                        28 March 2010
                30,000                               252.5p                         9 May 2010



Following this issue and allotment of Numis shares and the purchase of Numis
shares by the Trust as set out in the first paragraph of this announcement the
Trust holds 1,139,397 Numis shares (5.81%).



The new Numis shares will rank pari passu with all existing ordinary shares.
Application will be made for admission of the new Numis shares to trading on the
Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange and dealings are
expected to commence on 15 December 2004.



The Numis shares referred to above are Numis' ordinary shares of 25p per share
and the total number of shares in issue following the above is 19,606,653.



9 December 2004



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