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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000720005-25-000058"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RJF"
cik: "0000720005"
company_name: "RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T16:23:47.511272+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Raymond James appoints Equifax CEO Mark Begor to board; declares $0.50 quarterly dividend

## Summary
- Mark W. Begor, CEO of Equifax, appointed as independent director; joins Audit and Risk Committees.
- Board size increased to 13; Begor gets $150,000 prorated RSU award vesting at 2026 annual meeting.
- Quarterly common dividend of $0.50 per share declared, payable July 15, 2025 to holders of record July 1, 2025.
- Quarterly preferred dividend of $0.3984375 per depositary share (RJF PrB) declared, payable July 1, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000720005-25-000058
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RJF
- cik: 0000720005
- company_name: RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/720005/000072000525000058/0000720005-25-000058-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/720005/000072000525000058/rjf-20250521.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000720005-25-000058
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000720005-25-000058.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000720005-25-000058.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark W. Begor was appointed as director at RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On May 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (“Company”) appointed Mark W. Begor, age 66, as a director, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/720005/000072000525000058/0000720005-25-000058-index.htm

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