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13.9.2019 14:02:11 CEST | Business Wire | Press release
Jefferies confirmed that the firm’s global trading day for Hurricane Dorian relief efforts in the Bahamas will be held on Monday, September 16. Jefferies will offer investors around the world the opportunity to join efforts to assist those affected by the devastation of this event by trading with Jefferies.
As previously announced, Jefferies will donate all net trading commissions on Monday, September 16, from U.S., European and Asia equity, fixed income and foreign exchange trading. In addition, Jefferies will donate an additional $1 million itself, and all 3,656 employees worldwide will be given the opportunity to personally donate to the relief effort. These contributions will be allocated to a series of charities with the goal of quickly getting funds to relief efforts directly involved in the rescue and recovery efforts.
Rich Handler, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jefferies, and Brian Friedman, Chairman of the Executive Committee, commented: "All of us at Jefferies are deeply concerned about the catastrophic devastation in the Bahamas. We hope this donation from Jefferies will help, in some small way, to ease the pain of those affected and encourage our global employees and clients to join our efforts to contribute to those in need.”
Jefferies Group LLC, the largest independent full-service global investment banking firm headquartered in the U.S. focused on serving clients for over 55 years, is a leader in providing insight, expertise and execution to investors, companies and governments. Our firm provides a full range of investment banking, advisory, sales and trading, research and wealth management services across all products in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company.
For further information, please contact your Jefferies representative.
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