INVESTOR RELATIONS

STM Group PLC (AIM:STM), the cross border financial services provider, today announces that 28,302 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") have been issued to Mr Bernard Gallagher, the Company's Non-Executive Chairman, in payment of his Chairman's fees for the quarter commencing on 1 January 2010 and a further 9,434 new Ordinary Shares have been issued pursuant to an employment contract. As a result a total of 37,736 new Ordinary Shares have been issued. The number of new Ordinary Shares issued is based upon the share price of 26.5 pence per Ordinary Share, being the average closing mid-market price per Ordinary Share in the five trading days ending on the day prior to the relevant quarter end date.

Following this issue, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue is 42,930,357 and Mr Gallagher's total shareholding in the Company will be 494,103 Ordinary Shares, representing 1.15 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company. All of these Ordinary Shares are held by STM Fidecs Nominees Limited.

An application to AIM will be made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted and trading is expected to take place on 18 January 2010.

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STM is a multi-jurisdictional financial services group listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. The Group specialises in the delivery of a wide range of financial service products to professional intermediaries and in the administration of assets for international clients in relation to retirement, estate and succession planning, and wealth structuring.

Today, STM has trading operations in Gibraltar, Malta, Jersey, and Spain. It has also recently opened satellite offices in South East Asia, the Middle East, and South Africa. The Group continues to expand through the development of additional products and services that its ever-more sophisticated clients demand.

STM has, for example, a dedicated international pensions division which specialises in Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS) and Qualifying Non-UK Pension Schemes (QNUPS); it also has a Gibraltar Life Insurance Company, STM Life Assurance PCC PLC, which provides life insurance bonds - wrappers in which a variety of investments, including investment funds, can be held.

Further information on STM Group can be found at www.stmgroupplc.com