Director Shareholding

Numis Corporation PLC
31 March 2005


                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

Director's dealings


The Board of Numis announces that, on 30 March 2005, Intercapital Private Group
Limited ('IPGL') purchased 200,000 (0.19%) Numis shares at an average price of
188.1p per share as follows:

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

IPGL                 200,000              0.19                10,455,965              10.09


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.


Share options

The Board of Numis also announces that, today, employees surrendered options
over 1,475,000 (1.42%) Numis shares. The Numis Employee Share Trust ('the Trust
') held these shares. The options were at an average exercise price of 42.25p
per share. Subsequently, today, the Trust disposed of 1,475,000 (1.42%) Numis
shares at an average price of 42.25p per share to discretionary trusts
established by those employees.

The Numis shares referred to above are Numis' ordinary shares of 5p each and the
total number of shares in issue is 103,609,016.


31 March 2005

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