- CEO
- Ronald James Kruszewski
- Full Time Employees
- 8,887
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Capital Markets
- Address
- One Financial Plaza Saint Louis MO United States of America 63102-2188
- IPO Date
- Feb 22, 2019
- Business
- Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF; SF-PB) operates as a financial services holding company that conducts its banking, securities, and financial services business through wholly owned subsidiaries including Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.; Stifel Independent Advisors, LLC; Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited; and Stifel Bank. The company provides securities brokerage; investment banking services such as mergers and acquisitions advisory, public offerings, private placements, and financial restructuring; trading in equities and fixed income securities; investment advisory; equity and fixed income research; municipal finance; public finance underwriting; retail and commercial banking including personal and commercial lending programs and deposit accounts; wealth management for individuals, families, and institutions; and venture and fund banking solutions. It serves individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, corporations, municipalities, private equity groups, entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, and institutional clients including hedge funds and mutual funds.
Founded in 1890 and headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Stifel maintains global operations with approximately 400 offices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Canada, and Latin America; key locations include its global headquarters in St. Louis, capital markets headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, and European headquarters in London.
Stifel operates through three primary segments: Global Wealth Management, Institutional Group, and Other, with a focus on middle-market companies in sectors such as healthcare, technology, life sciences, biotech, diagnostics, medical devices, healthtech, and public finance.
In recent developments, Stifel completed the acquisition of 36 employee advisors from B. Riley Financial in April 2025, adding approximately $4 billion in assets under management to its Global Wealth Management segment; signed a definitive agreement in January 2025 to acquire Bryan, Garnier & Co., a Paris-based investment bank specializing in European healthcare and technology; closed the acquisition of community bank-focused firms CB Resource and Finance 500 in August 2024 to enhance its analytics and certificate of deposit businesses; and expanded its Venture Banking team in September 2025 by adding senior bankers from Silicon Valley Bank, growing the division to over 100 bankers with more than $10 billion in loan commitments.