Director Shareholding

Numis Corporation PLC
24 March 2005


                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

Director's dealings


The Board of Numis announces that, on 23 March 2005, Intercapital Private Group
Limited ('IPGL') purchased 200,000 (0.19%) Numis shares at 185p per share as
follows:

Name       Shares acquired      % of shares in    Total shares    % of shares in
                                issue             now held        issue

IPGL       200,000              0.19              10,255,965      9.90


Michael Spencer (non-executive Chairman of Numis) is Chairman of IPGL. Michael
Spencer, together with his wife, owns approximately 46.7 per cent of IPGL's
issued share capital.  Michael Spencer is deemed under the Companies Act 1985 to
be interested in the entire issued share capital of IPGL.

The Numis shares referred to above are Numis' ordinary shares of 5p each and the
total number of shares in issue is 103,609,016.


24 March 2005


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