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INTL FCStone, Inc. engages development of specialized financial services in commodities, securities, global payments, and foreign exchange markets. It operates through the following segments: Commercial Hedging, Global Payments, Securities, Physical Commodities, and Clearing and Execution Services. The Commercial Hedging segment provides risk management consulting services. The Global Payments segment provides global payment solutions to banks and commercial businesses as well as charities and non-governmental and government organizations. The Securities segment offers corporate finance advisory services and capital market solutions to middle market clients. The Physical Commodities segment consists of physical precious metals trading and physical agricultural and energy commodity business. The Clearing and Execution Services segment deals with clearing and execution of exchange traded futures and options for the institutional and professional trader market segments. The company was founded by Diego J. Veitia in October 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

INTL FCStone Inc. operates as a financial services company worldwide. The company's Commercial Hedging segment offers risk management consulting services related to agricultural and energy commodities, and base metal products listed on the London Metals Exchange. Its Global Payments segment provides payment solutions to banks and commercial businesses; and charities and non-governmental organizations, and government organizations. The company's Securities segment offers value-added solutions that facilitate cross-border trading in foreign securities, including unlisted American Depositary Receipts, Global Depository Receipts, and foreign ordinary shares. This segment also operates as an institutional dealer in fixed income securities to serve asset managers, commercial bank trust and investment departments, broker-dealers, and insurance companies. In addition, it originates, structures, and places debt instruments; trades in various international debt instruments; and offers asset management services. The company's Physical Commodities segment provides a range of trading and hedging services comprising OTC products for selecting producers, consumers, and investors. This segment also offers financing services to commercial commodity-related companies against physical inventories, such as grain, lumber, meat, energy product, and renewable fuel. The company's Clearing and Execution Services segment offers prime brokerage foreign exchange services for the financial institutions and professional traders; provides a range of OTC products, including 24-hour a day execution of spot, forwards, and options, as well as non-deliverable forwards; and operates a proprietary foreign exchange desk that arbitrages the exchange-traded foreign exchange markets with the cash markets. The company was formerly known as International Assets Holding Corporation and changed its name to INTL FCStone Inc. in March 2011. INTL FCStone Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.