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

Company: STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 14
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| Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders |     | 28 |

| test risk exposures and monitor compliance with rules and regulations. We have also significantly augmented the tools available to this staff. Likewise, we developed a number of new oversight capabilities to carefully manage risk in select Private Client Group business areas. Additionally, in the Technology and Operations areas we developed a number of new cross team communication capabilities as well as enhanced system monitoring tools and procedures. And in the Technology and Operations areas we continue to invest in personnel and technology systems that enhance firm-wide communication by providing project transparency and ongoing system monitoring. In addition, our internal audit team performed scores of internal audits in 2024. |

| u |     | Investing in Process Improvements and Controls. We continued to enhance our overall control environment by implementing new capabilities, policies and procedures that ensure effective management of our systems. A new set of internal committees and task forces have been formed to evaluate areas for improvement across the operational platform on an ongoing basis. Similarly, a number of procedures have been implemented to periodically review existing business controls in addition to the implementation of new controls. Management supports the necessary investments required to continuously improve the Company’s systems and controls. |

| u |     | Building on our strong relationships with regulators. Stifel recognizes the critical importance to the safety and soundness of our company, and the value to our growth strategy, of building on the strong relationships we maintain with our regulators. Our history of growth in the heavily-regulated financial services industry, both organically and through acquisitions, is evidence of this commitment. |

| Enhancing the Customer Experience to Deliver Sustained Performance |

Stifel has invested significantly to enhance its wealth management platform through improved client reporting and digital access capabilities, as well as enhanced client reporting and financial and estate planning. These investments help our financial advisors provide transparency and deliver solutions to clients that are tailored to their particular needs. Likewise, through prudence, training and relationship building, we are bringing lending solutions to clients seeking liquidity. In 2024 the Company extended its work on improved client access systems and mobile access tool-sets. These investments are being made to enhance the client experience, further strengthen security, and deliver new functionality to clients.

| Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders |     | 29 |

| Investment in our People |

The value of our franchise and brand depends on the quality and effectiveness of our team, and on our ability to continue to attract and develop the best