Exercise of options

Numis Corporation PLC
15 March 2006


EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE ON

Wednesday 15 March 2006 at 7.00am


Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')


Exercise of options

The Board of Numis announces that, on 14 March 2006, it approved the issue and
allotment of 25,000 (0.024%) Numis shares following the exercise of options
under the Numis Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme ('the Scheme').

Number of options        Subscription price      Latest exercise date
over Numis shares                                      
    25,000                     58.5p                28 March 2010

The new Numis shares will rank pari passu with all existing Numis 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 21 March 2006.

The Numis shares referred to above are Numis' ordinary shares of 5p each and the
total number of shares in issue following the above is 105,436,583.



15 March 2006




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