- CEO
- Ronald James Kruszewski
- Full Time Employees
- 9,000
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Capital Markets
- Address
- One Financial Plaza Saint Louis MO United States of America 63102-2188
- IPO Date
- May 13, 2020
- Business
- Stifel Financial Corp. Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial services holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and founded in 1890, operates through wholly owned subsidiaries including its primary broker-dealer Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated; provides securities brokerage, investment banking, trading, investment advisory, and related financial services to individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, and municipalities; offers full-service investment banking with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements, equity and fixed income capital markets, research, sales and trading, and municipal finance; delivers wealth management solutions encompassing discretionary and non-discretionary advisory programs, retirement planning, risk mitigation, estate planning, and structured investments; and provides consumer and commercial lending through Stifel Bank and Stifel Bank & Trust, along with trust services via Stifel Trust Company affiliates. The company maintains over 400 offices and approximately 10,000 professionals across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, serving growth companies, large corporates, private equity firms, institutional investors, and communities with a focus on middle-market transactions, particularly in North America where it ranks No. 1 in M&A deals under $1 billion since 2012, and in Europe through specialized coverage in technology and healthcare sectors. Recent developments include the June 2025 completion of its acquisition of Bryan, Garnier & Co., a European investment bank enhancing transatlantic advisory capabilities in healthcare and technology with over 500 joint transactions since 2020 and subsequent rebranding to Stifel; the April 2025 acquisition of 36 advisors from B. Riley managing $4 billion in assets to bolster Global Wealth Management; and 2024 acquisitions of CB Resource and Finance 500 to strengthen community bank-focused certificate of deposit funding, deposit base expansion, and technology-driven capabilities.