Company: SFB
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094691
Chunk: 48

Company: STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 48
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SE. As part of its activities, the Audit Committee has:

| u | Reviewed and discussed with management and the independent auditor the Company’s audited financial statements; |

| u | Discussed with the independent auditor the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission; and |

| u | Received the written disclosures and letter from the independent auditor required by applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in Rule 3200T regarding the independent auditor’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and has discussed with the independent auditor the independent auditor’s independence. |

Management is responsible for the Company’s system of internal controls and financial reporting process. Through the end of 2024, Ernst & Young LLP was, and thereafter, KPMG LLP is responsible for performing an independent audit of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and for issuing a report thereon. The Audit Committee’s responsibility is to monitor and oversee these processes. Based on the foregoing review and discussions and a review of the report of Ernst & Young LLP with respect to the Company’s consolidated financial statements, and relying thereon, we have recommended to the Board inclusion of the audited consolidated financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-Kfor the year ended December 31, 2024, for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Stifel Financial Corp. Michael W. Brown, Chairman Lisa L. Carnoy Maura A. Markus Michael J. Zimmerman * * *

| Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders |     | 60 |

Auditor Fees Ernst & Young LLP served as our independent auditor for 2024 and 2023. The following table presents fees for professional audit services for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements for these years, as well as fees for the review of our interim consolidated financial statements for each quarter in these years and for all other services performed for these years by Ernst & Young LLP.

|                        | Type of Fee |     |     Fiscal Year Ended 
 December 31, 2024 ($) |     |     |     Fiscal Year Ended 
 December 31, 2023 ($) |
|:-----------------------|:------------|:----|----------------------:|:----|:----|----------------------:|
| Audit Fees (1)         |             |     |             5,348,000 |     |     |