- CEO
- Ronald James Kruszewski
- Full Time Employees
- 9,000
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Investment - Banking & Investment Services
- Address
- One Financial Plaza St. Louis DE United States of America 63102-2188
- IPO Date
- Oct 17, 2017
- Business
- Stifel Financial Corp. is a full-service investment banking and financial services holding company that provides securities brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory, equity and fixed income research, institutional sales and trading, wealth management, public finance, mergers and acquisitions advisory, capital markets solutions including equity and debt offerings, private placements, and consumer and commercial lending through subsidiaries such as Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, Stifel Bank & Trust, and Stifel Trust Company, N.A.; the company operates in three main segments including Global Wealth Management with over 2,300 financial advisors across more than 400 locations, Institutional Group, and Other, serving individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, municipalities, entrepreneurs, family-owned companies, private equity groups, and public and private corporations in sectors such as biopharma, medtech, healthcare, technology, energy, natural resources, consumer products, and industrials primarily in the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia, Israel, Latin America, and the Middle East. Founded in 1890 and headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with capital markets headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, and London, England, Stifel employs over 7,500 associates globally and manages substantial assets including more than USD 444 billion in assets under management. In recent developments, the company completed the acquisition of Bryan, Garnier & Co., a European investment bank specializing in technology and healthcare sectors, on June 2, 2025, to enhance its transatlantic advisory platform and pan-European capabilities; it also finalized the acquisition of 36 employee advisors from B. Riley in April 2025 for between $27 million and $35 million in cash, bolstering its wealth management operations; additionally, Victor Nesi retired as co-president and head of Institutional Group in June 2025 and joined the board of directors, amid ongoing expansions in investment banking transactions across M&A, follow-on offerings, IPOs, and debt financings in 2024 and 2025.