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Website http://www.jefferies.com
Headquarters
520 Madison Avenue
10022 New York
United States
CEO/chair Richard B. Handler
CEO
Supervisor
Federal Reserve
Ownership
listed on NYSE

Jefferies Financial Group's complete shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Jefferies Financial Group is an US investment bank, that was founded in 1962. The bank is active in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. Jefferies Financial Group operates in two segments, Investment Banking and Capital Markets, and Asset Management. The bank was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation and changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group in May 2018.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

Jefferies Financial Group's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.

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Sustainability & Transition

Governance documents

Human rights statement

Bank policy
2022-11-23 00:00:00 | Jefferies Financial Group

Sustainable Investment Statement

Bank policy
2022-05-16 00:00:00 | Jefferies Financial Group

Corporate Social Responsibility Principles

Bank policy
2020-08-28 00:00:00 | Jefferies Financial Group
Jefferies Financial Group has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)Tags: corporate social responsibility | sustainable development | United Nations
Sustainability Accounting Standards BoardTags: corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
Dodgy Deals

Jefferies Financial Group is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of Jefferies Financial Group's link to these deals.

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Accountability
Grievances

Jefferies Financial Group does not operate a complaints or grievance mechanism for individuals or communities that might have been affected by the bank's finance.

This page evaluates Jefferies Financial Group's responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but covers selected impacts raised by BankTrack and other civil society partners since 2016. For the full scoring methodology, see here. For more information about BankTrack's evaluation of bank responses to human rights impacts, see the 2021 report "Actions speak louder: assessing bank responses to human rights violations".

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Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

In January 2024, Jefferies Financial Group was ranked 7th of US banks that were large financiers of the global coal industry, with USD 3.3 billion in coal financing between January 2021 and December 2023.