Holding(s) in Company

Numis Corporation PLC
21 February 2005


                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

Share options

The Board of Numis announces that, today, employees surrendered options over
301,000 (0.29%) Numis shares. The Numis Employee Share Trust ('the Trust') held
these shares. The options were at an exercise price of 43.3p per share and the
latest exercise date was 15 August 2011. Subsequently, today, the Trust disposed
of 301,000 (0.29%) Numis shares at 43.3p per share to discretionary trusts
established by those employees.

The Numis shares referred to above are Numis' ordinary shares of 5p per share
and the total number of shares in issue is 102,368,350.


21 February 2005

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