UMBF UMB Financial Corporation

Dennis Triplett, president of UMB Healthcare Services, a division of UMB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: UMBF), has been invited to speak at the National Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit (CDHC) in Washington D.C., September 13-15. CDHC provides the leading forum on the impact of Consumer Choice for providers, pharmaceutical companies, health plans, employers and other professionals involved with consumer driven care. A variety of nationally renowned business and healthcare leaders will address an assortment of topics including: marketplace trends, prescription benefit strategies and options, and communication strategies. Triplett, a charter member of the national HSA Council, will address healthcare lines of credit and will provide his thoughts from a banker's point of view. Triplett will discuss the benefits of attaching credit lines to healthcare, both for the account holder and the financial institution. Triplett has over 27 years of banking experience and has directed the development of UMB's product offering for the healthcare industry. UMB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: UMBF) is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., offering complete banking and related financial services to both individual and business customers nationwide. Its banking subsidiaries own and operate 140 banking centers throughout Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Arizona. Subsidiaries of the holding company and the lead bank, UMB Bank, n.a., include an investment services group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a trust management company in South Dakota, and single-purpose companies that deal with brokerage services, consulting services and insurance. UMB was named one of Business Week's "Web Smart 50" companies in 2005.