Grant of Share Options

RNS Number:8277O
Sirius Financial Solutions PLC
17 December 2001

Sirius Financial Solutions plc

Grant of share options


Under the terms of its Executive Share Option Schemes, Sirius Financial
Solutions plc ("SFS") has today granted options over Ordinary Shares of 1p
each to S J Verrall and R J Bowser as follows:

                     Number of          Exercise      Exercise
                     ordinary shares    price         period
                     over which
                     option granted
S J Verrall
- Approved scheme    10,000             97.5p         17/12/04 to 17/12/11
- Unapproved scheme  15,000             97.5p         17/12/04 to 17/12/11
R J Bowser
- Approved scheme    10,000             97.5p         17/12/04 to 17/12/11
- Unapproved scheme  10,000             97.5p         17/12/04 to 17/12/11


The options have been granted at nil consideration. Under the terms of the
scheme, the options are subject to the performance criteria applicable to the
existing Executive Share Option Schemes as determined from time to time by the
Remuneration Committee.


In addition to these options, Messrs Verrall and Bowser each have options over
8,636 Ordinary Shares of 1p which were granted on 8 November 2001 under the
terms of SFS's Employee Save As You Earn Scheme. These options may be
exercised between 8 November 2004 and 8 May 2005 at a price of 66p per share.


Following the grant of these options, the interests of Messrs Verrall and
Bowser in the issued Ordinary Shares of SFS, which remain unchanged, were as
follows:
            Number of                    Percentage of
            ordinary shares              issued share
                                         capital

S J Verrall 5,536,816                    34.39%
R J Bowser  1,445,919                    8.98%


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