Stifel Financial Corp. (SF)

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Stifel Financial Corp is a financial holding company. It subsidiary is Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, a full-service retail and institutional brokerage and investment banking firm. Its other subsidiaries include Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, a registered broker-dealer firm; Century Securities Associates, Inc., an independent contractor broker-dealer firm; Stifel Nicolaus Limited and Thomas Weisel Partners International Limited, its European subsidiaries; Stifel Nicolaus Canada, Inc., its registered Canadian broker-dealer subsidiary, and Stifel Bank & Trust, a retail and commercial bank. As of December 31, 2010, through its broker-dealer subsidiaries, it provided securities-related financial services to approximately 1.0 million client accounts of customers. It operates in three segments: Global Wealth Management, Institutional Group, and Other. On July 1, 2010, it acquired Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. In October 2011, the Company acquired Stone & Youngberg LLC.

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