Issue of Equity

STM Group PLC
05 April 2007


Press Release                                                  5 April 2007



                                 STM Group Plc

                            ('STM' or 'the Company')


                     Directors Dealing and Issue of Equity



STM Group Plc (AIM:STM), the cross border financial services provider, today
announces that 15,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company ('
Ordinary Shares') have been issued to Mr Bernard Gallagher, the Company's
Non-Executive Chairman, in payment of his Chairman's fees for the quarter
commencing on 1 April 2007.  The number of new Ordinary Shares issued is based
upon share price of 50 pence per Ordinary Share.



Pursuant to Mr Gallagher's service contract with the Company, he has elected to
receive his quarterly directors' fee in Ordinary Shares rather than cash.
Accordingly, the Company expects to issue new Ordinary Shares to Mr Gallagher at
or around the beginning of each of the quarters commencing on April 2007.  The
number of new Ordinary Shares to be issued to Mr Gallagher in subsequent
quarters will be calculated based upon the average mid-market price per Ordinary
Share in the five trading days ending on the day prior to the relevant quarter
end date.



Following this issue, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue is 35,215,000
and Mr Gallagher's total shareholding in the Company will be 237,222 Ordinary
Shares, representing 0.67 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.
222,222 of these shares are held by Fidecs Nominees Limited.



Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the new Ordinary
Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM.



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For further information, please contact:
STM Group Plc
Tim Revill, Chief Executive Officer               Tel: [phone]
Matt Wood, Non-executive director         Tel: [phone]
                                                www.stmgroupplc.com


Daniel Stewart & Co. Plc
Lindsay Mair / Tessa Smith                Tel: [phone]



Media enquiries:
Abchurch
Henry Harrison-Topham / Charlie Jack      Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]                  www.abchurch-group.com



Notes to editors

STM was formed in 2007 specifically to become a leading financial services group
operating in the Corporate and Trustee Service Provider (CTSP) sector. The
Company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange on 28 March 2007.
The traditional business of CTSPs is to administer and manage personal, family
and commercial assets and income streams in tax efficient offshore
jurisdictions.  The Company's aim is to grow through acquiring and consolidating
high quality existing CTSPs which offer complementary products and services and
that operate in complementary tax efficient jurisdictions to those provided by
STM's first acquisition, the Gibraltar based CTSP, Fidecs Group Limited ('Fidecs
').  Fidecs was acquired by STM upon its Admission to AIM.



Fidecs is the second largest financial services firm in Gibraltar and employs 80
people.   It specialises in financial planning for both High Net Worth
individuals ('HNWI') moving to work, living or retiring overseas or making
cross-border investments, and for entrepreneurial, predominantly, owner-managed
businesses, expanding into or re-locating to other, frequently lower tax,
jurisdictions. It also includes an insurance management division, specialising
in providing set up and management services to newly formed insurance companies
operating out of Gibraltar. In the year ended 31 December 2006, Fidecs reported
turnover of £5 million with post tax profit of £1.7 million.



The CTSP market is fragmented in nature, comprising a small number of very large
international financial services groups and a large number of relatively small
trust and company management businesses regulated by, and operating out of,
single offshore jurisdictions. The HNWI market, a key market for CTSPs, has
continued to expand strongly, due to buoyant stock markets, rising house prices
and global economic growth. Leading surveys estimated that aggregate global high
net worth wealth, would grow to £40 trillion by 2008, an increase of
some 40 per cent. over 2004.



Further information on STM Group can be found at www.stmgroupplc.com


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