Additional Listing

Numis Corporation PLC
09 December 2005

                           EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE ON

                         9th December 2005 AT 7.00am


Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')


Exercise of options


The Board of Numis announces that, on 8th December 2005, it approved the issue
and allotment of 125,000 (0.12%) Numis shares following the exercise of options
under the Numis Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme ('the Scheme').


Number of options over Numis      Subscription price      Latest exercise date
          shares

         125,000                        46.2p                8 August 2012


The new Numis shares will rank pari passu with all existing Numis shares.
Application will be made for admission of the new Numis shares to trading on the
Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange and dealings are
expected to commence on 15 December 2005.


The Numis shares referred to above are Numis' ordinary shares of 5p each and the
total number of shares in issue following the above is 105,286,583.



9th December 2005



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