Funding. The obligations of Company hereunder are intended to be paid out of its general assets or, in Company’s absolute discretion, through a funding program including insurance or annuity contracts or bank accounts to be owed by Company. Company reserves the absolute right in its sole and exclusive discretion either to fund the obligations of Company undertaken by this Plan or to refrain from funding the same, and to determine the extent, nature and method of such funding.

Funding. The Plan is unfunded. All benefits shall be paid from the general assets of the Employer. Shares of common stock of Stifel Financial Corp. distributed in satisfaction of benefits awarded under this Plan are authorized by the Stifel Financial Corp. 2001 Incentive Stock Plan, as amended and restated, and the Stifel Financial Corp. 2007 Incentive Stock Plan for Ryan Beck Employees.

Funding Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

Funding Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:

Funding Indemnification. If any payment of principal on a Eurocurrency Rate Loan occurs on a date which is not the last day of the applicable Interest Period, whether because of acceleration, prepayment or otherwise, or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan is not made or continued, or a Floating Rate Advance is not converted into a Eurocurrency Rate Advance, in any such case, on the date specified by any Borrower for any reason other than default by the Lenders, or a Eurocurrency Rate Advance is not prepaid on the date specified by the Company or any other Borrower for any reason, the Company shall indemnify each Lender for any loss or cost incurred by it resulting therefrom, including, without limitation, any loss or cost in liquidating or employing deposits acquired to fund or maintain the Eurocurrency Rate Loan.

Employer shall deposit annually the maximum allowable SEP IRA contribution at an individual retirement account designated by Employee and for the benefit of Employee.

Loans. Made any loans or advances to any Person other than travel advances and reimbursement of expenses made to employees, officers and directors in the Ordinary Course of Business;

Loans. Each Revolving Loan borrowing, each payment or prepayment of principal of any Revolving Loan, each payment of fees (other than administrative fees payable pursuant to [Section 3.4(c)] and [Section 3.4(d)], the Issuing [[Organization A:Organization]] Fees and, as set forth in Section 3.4(a), the Facility Fees), each reduction of the Revolving Committed Amount, and each conversion or continuation of any Revolving Loan, shall (except as otherwise provided in [Section 3.11]) be allocated pro rata among the Lenders in accordance with the respective Revolving Loan Commitment Percentages of the Lenders (or, if the Commitments of the Lenders have expired or been terminated, in accordance with the respective principal amounts of the outstanding Loans and Participation Interests of the Revolving Loan Lenders); provided that, if any [[Organization A:Organization]] shall have failed to pay its applicable pro rata share of any Revolving Loan, then any amount to which such [[Organization A:Organization]] would otherwise be entitled pursuant to this Section 3.7 shall instead be payable to the Administrative Agent until the share of such Loan not funded by such [[Organization A:Organization]] has been repaid; provided further, that in the event any amount paid to any [[Organization A:Organization]] pursuant to this Section 3.7 is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Administrative Agent, each [[Organization A:Organization]] shall, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, repay to the Administrative Agent the amount so paid to such [[Organization A:Organization]], with interest for the period commencing on the date such payment is returned by the Administrative Agent until the date the Administrative Agent receives such repayment at a rate per annum equal to, during the period to, but excluding, the date two Business Days after such request, the Federal Funds Rate, and thereafter, at the Base Rate plus two percent (2%) per annum.

Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make loans in Dollars (each such loan, a “Loan” or “Term Loan”) to the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower identified by Borrower in a Loan Notice (on any one Business Day during the Availability Period) in an aggregate principal amount of $250,000,000 (each such Lender’s loan not to exceed at any time the amount of such Lender’s Commitment). No amount of the Loan may be reborrowed once any portion of the Loan is repaid. The Loan shall mature and shall be due and payable by the Borrower and the Co-Borrowers in full on the Maturity Date.

Loans. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Loan made by each Lender to it from the date of such Loan until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following rates per annum: