Jefferies Financial Group Inc. operates in the investment banking, capital markets, and asset management businesses across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The company conducts its operations through four segments: Investment Banking and Capital Markets, Asset Management, Merchant Banking, and Corporate. It provides investment banking services, including advisory services for mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, recapitalizations, and private capital advisory transactions, as well as equity and debt underwriting and corporate lending. Additionally, Jefferies offers financing, securities lending, and other prime brokerage services, along with equities research and wealth management. The firm also provides sales and trading of investment-grade corporate bonds, U.S. and European government and agency securities, municipal bonds, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, leveraged loans, consumer loans, high-yield and distressed securities, emerging markets debt, interest rate and credit derivative products, foreign exchange trade execution, and securitization. Furthermore, it manages, invests in, and provides services to a diverse group of alternative asset management platforms across various investment strategies and asset classes. The company was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation and changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. in May 2018. Founded in 1962, Jefferies Financial Group Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.
| Symbol | JEF |
|---|---|
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Industry | Financial - Capital Markets |
| CEO | Richard Brian Handler |
| Employees | 7701 |
| Headquarters | New York City, NY, US |
| IPO | 1980-03-17 |
| Website | www.jefferies.com |