Directorate Change

Secure Trust Banking Group PLC
6 December 2004


PRESS RELEASE


                        SECURE TRUST BANKING GROUP PLC

                        APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY CHAIRMAN


We are pleased to announce that Mr. R.J.J. Wickham, the senior independent non 
executive director, has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Company.




6 December 2004



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