Exercise of options

Numis Corporation PLC
25 March 2008


                         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                    TUESDAY 25 MARCH 2008 AT 3.00 PM


Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

Exercise of Options


The Board of Numis announces that, on 20 March 2008, it approved the exercise of
40,000 share options (0.04% of issued share capital) under the Numis Unapproved
Executive Share Option Scheme.

 Number of options over Numis shares   Subscription price   Latest exercise date

                              40,000                58.5p          28 March 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 No.2 ('EBT No.2'). 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 107,367,344 with each ordinary share carrying
the right to vote. There are no shares held in treasury.

25 March 2008


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Contacts

Numis Corporation:
Oliver Hemsley, Chief Executive                                    020 7260 1256
Bill Trent, Chief Financial Officer                                020 7260 1333

Brunswick:
Gill Ackers                                                        020 7936 5382
Carole Cable                                                       020 7396 7458

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



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