FORM OF REGISTERED SENIOR NOTE

Exhibit 4.2

FORM OF REGISTERED SENIOR NOTE

THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITORY. THIS NOTE IS NOT EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE. EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

Unless this Note is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (55 Water Street, New York, New York) (“DTC”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and this Note is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC, and unless any payment is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL, INC.

8.60% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2019

RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL, INC., a Florida corporation (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co. or its registered assigns, the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS on August 15, 2019 (except to the extent redeemed or repaid prior to that date). The Company shall pay interest on such principal amount at the rate of 8.60% per annum, until payment of such principal amount has been made or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on August 15 and February 15 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”). Interest shall be payable on each Interest Payment Date, commencing on February 15, 2010, and at the stated maturity or earlier redemption or repayment (the “Maturity Date”). If the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on any Interest Payment Date, then this Note shall bear interest from the next preceding Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid, or, if no interest has been paid on the Notes, from August 20, 2009 (the “Original Issue Date”).

Interest on this Note shall accrue from the Original Issue Date until the principal amount is paid or duly provided for. Interest (including payments for partial periods) shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date shall include interest accrued from, and including,

the preceding Interest Payment Date in respect of which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from, and including, the Original Issue Date, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for) to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date, as the case may be. If the Maturity Date or any Interest Payment Date falls on a day which is not a Business Day (as defined below), principal of or interest payable with respect to the Maturity Date or such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on the succeeding Business Day, except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made on the Maturity Date or such Interest Payment Date, and no additional interest shall accrue as a result of that postponement. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the person in whose name this Note (or one or more predecessor Notes evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as this Note) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such Interest Payment Date, whether or not a Business Day. As long as this Note is in book-entry only form, the regular record date shall be the close of business on the Business Day next preceding such Interest Payment Date. If, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, this Note is no longer in book-entry only form, the record date shall be the close of business on February 1 and August 1 preceding an Interest Payment Date. “Business Day” means any weekday that is not a legal holiday in New York, New York or St. Petersburg, Florida and that is not a day on which banking institutions in those cities are authorized or required by law or regulation to be closed.

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in immediately available funds in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts, at the office or agency of the Company designated as provided in the Indenture. However, interest may be paid, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the person entitled thereto at his address last appearing on the registry books of the Company relating to the Notes. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, payments of principal of and interest payable on the Maturity Date shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to a designated account maintained in the United States upon (i) receipt of written notice by the Issuing and Paying Agent (as described on the reverse hereof) from the registered holder hereof not less than one Business Day prior to the due date of such principal and (ii) presentation of this Note to the Issuing and Paying Agent, at The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York, 10286. Any interest not punctually paid or duly provided for shall be payable as provided in such Indenture.

References herein to “U.S. dollars,” “U.S.$,” or “$” are to the coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee (as described on the reverse hereof) or by an authenticating agent on behalf of the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under such Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed, by manual or facsimile signature, under its corporate seal or a facsimile thereof.

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

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[Reverse of Note]

RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL, INC.

8.60% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2019

SECTION 1. General . This Note is one of a duly authorized series of Securities of the Company unlimited in aggregate principal amount (herein called the “Notes”) issued and to be issued under an Indenture dated as of August 10, 2009 (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, and the holders of the Notes, and the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The series of which this Note is a part also is designated as the Company’s 8.60% Senior Notes due 2019 (herein called the “Series”), initially in the principal amount of $300,000,000. The Trustee initially shall act as Security Registrar, Transfer Agent, Authenticating Agent and Issuing and Paying Agent in connection with the Notes.

SECTION 2. No Sinking Fund . This Note is not subject to any sinking fund.

SECTION 3. Redemption and Repayment . The Company may, at its option, and subject to the terms and conditions of Article 3 of the Indenture and Section 2.6 of the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 20, 2009 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), redeem the Notes of this Series, in whole at any time or in part from time to time prior to the Maturity Date, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes so redeemed, or (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon (not including any such portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the redemption date), discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate (as defined below), plus 50 basis points, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption d