Issue of options

ADVFN PLC
28 January 2005


28 January 2005

ADVFN PLC ('ADVFN' or the 'Company')

On the 27th January 2005, the Company approved the grant of options over new 
ordinary shares of 1p ('Ordinary Shares') to the following directors:

NAME                 OPTIONS          TOTAL OPTIONS
                     GRANTED              HELD

Clement Chambers     1.5 million          10 million
Jonathan Mullins     1 million            9 million
Michael Hodges       1 million            6 million
David Crump          1 million            5 million
Ray Negus            2.233 million        5 million
Robert Emmet         1 million            4.5 million

The options over ordinary shares in the Company were granted at a price of 4.6p
 and are exercisable up to 27th January 2012.



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