Exercise of options

Numis Corporation PLC
17 August 2007


EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE ON


                         FRIDAY 17 AUGUST 2007 AT 7.00 am

Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

Exercise of Options


The Board of Numis announces that, on 16 August 2007, it approved the exercise
of 225,000 share options (0.21% of issued share capital) under the Numis
Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme.

 Number of options over   Subscription price   Latest exercise date
    Numis shares

         125,000                58.5p      28 March 2010
         100,000                50.5p        9 May 2010


The exercise of the aforementioned options over Numis ordinary shares will be
funded from existing Numis shares held by the Numis Corporation Plc Employee
Benefit Trust (the 'EBT'). The new Numis shares will rank pari passu with all
existing Numis shares.

The Numis shares referred to above are Numis' ordinary shares of 5p each and the
total number of shares in issue is 106,472,996 with each ordinary share carrying
the right to vote. There are no shares held in treasury.



17 August 2007

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Enquires:

Numis Corporation Plc
Oliver Hemsley - Chief Executive 020 7260 1000
Bill Trent - Chief Financial Officer 020 7260 1333

Gill Ackers - Brunswick 020 7396 5382
Lucie-Anne Brailsford 020 7404 5959

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (Nominated Adviser)
Simon Boadle 020 7583 5000
Jon Raggett 020 7583 5000






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