Director/PDMR Shareholding

First Derivatives PLC
11 January 2007



                             FIRST DERIVATIVES PLC

                                Director dealing

First Derivatives Plc ('the Company') announces that it was informed on 2
January 2007, that Adrian Toner, non-executive director, purchased the following
ordinary shares in the Company:

(i)  500 ordinary shares at a price of 207 pence per share on 18 December 2006
(ii)7,944 ordinary shares at a price of 210 pence per share on 19 December 2006.

This takes Adrian Toner's beneficial holding to 8,444 ordinary shares
representing approximately 0.07 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital.

Dated 11 January 2007


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