Holding in Company

Close Brothers Group PLC
6 September 2001


                                 SCHEDULE 10

                  NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1)   Name of company

Close Brothers Group plc

2)   Name of shareholder having a major interest

Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries.

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
     holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18


Non-beneficial shareholding of shareholder named in 2.

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
     number of shares held by each of them

Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited  572,054



Bankers Trust                                   124,100

Bank of New York Europe                         53,744

RBS Trust Bank                                  82,550

Citibank                                        63,500

Nortrust Nominees Limited                       286,600

Chase Nominees Limited                          148,800

HSBC Client Holdings Nominees (UK) Limited      101,600

MSS Nominees Limitd                             16,995

BT Globenet Nominees Limited                    13,150

MSS Nominees Limited                            43,800

Nortrust Nominees Limited                       283,590

Bankers Trust                                   229,112

Mellon Trust                                    85,130

State Street Nominees Limited                   286,230

RBS Trust Bank                                  576,560

Chase Nominees Limited                          11,800

Citibank                                        15,200

Bank of New York Europe                         181,953

KAS Associatie                                  26,090

Northern Trust                                  388,700

RBS-EDINBURG                                    32,430

HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited           310

Morgan Stanley                                  26,800

JP Morgan                                       60,350

Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited  17,100


5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

N/A

6)   Percentage of issued class

N/A

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

N/A

8)   Percentage of issued class

N/A

9)   Class of security

Ordinary shares of 25p each

10)  Date of transaction

N/A

11)  Date company informed

5th September 2001

12)  Total holding following this notification

3,728,248


13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

2.74%

14)  Any additional information



15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

SIMON WATSON 020 7655 3100

16)        Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
     making this notification

R.D. SELLERS


Date of notification   6th September 2001