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<STREET1>ATTN: JAMES G. LASCHOBER
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size=2>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): </FONT><B><FONT
size=2>August 10, 2009</FONT></B><FONT size=2> </FONT></P>
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size=5>STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP.</FONT></B></U></P>
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size=2>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</FONT></P>
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      size=2>43-1273600</FONT></B></U><BR><FONT size=2>(IRS
      Employer</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Identification No.)</FONT></P>
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size=2>One Financial Plaza</FONT></B></P>
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size=2>501 North Broadway</FONT></B></P>
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<i>(d)&nbsp; Election of Directors</i></font></P>
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Effective August 10, 2009, the Board of Directors of Stifel Financial Corp. (the
&quot;Company&quot;) elected Victor J. Nesi to serve as a Class II director of the Company
with a term ending in 2012. Mr. Nesi, as an
employee director, will not receive any additional compensation for his service
as a director. </FONT></P>

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<font size="2"><b><i>Victor J. Nesi</i></b>, serves as Executive Vice President, Director of Investment
Banking and Co-Director of Capital Markets. </font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Mr. Nesi, 49, has more than 20 years of
banking and private equity experience, most recently with Merrill Lynch, where
he headed the global private equity business for the telecommunications and
media industry. From 2005 to 2007, he directed Merrill Lynch's investment
banking group for the Americas region. In that role, he was responsible for the
firm's investment banking origination activities for corporate, financial, and
sovereign clients in the United States, Canada, and Latin America across all
industries and products. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1996, Mr. Nesi spent
seven years as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers and Goldman Sachs. He
began his career in corporate and securities law with the Shea and Gould law
firm. </font></P>

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registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
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      size=2>STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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      size=2>Date: August 14, 2009</FONT></P></TD>
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