Press Release

UMB Honored with the Archer Excellence Award for Leadership in Risk and Compliance Management

Overland Park, KS–April 16, 2007–Archer Technologies (Archer), a leader in enterprise risk and compliance management solutions, today announced that UMB Financial Corporation has been honored with the Archer Excellence Award in recognition of the company’s industry leadership in implementing best-practice risk and compliance management programs. Other recipients of the award this year include two Fortune 100 global financial institutions based in New York. Archer Excellence Award winners set the bar among their competitors in protecting customer data and complying with stringent industry regulations through tailored solutions built on the Archer SmartSuite Framework.

UMB was selected to receive the Archer Excellence Award because of the best-in-class solutions they have built on the Archer SmartSuite Framework to support and automate their enterprise risk, policy and asset management initiatives. Through their Archer implementation, UMB has minimized corporate risk and increased efficiencies throughout the enterprise while strengthening their compliance efforts.

“UMB was selected to receive the Archer Excellence Award because of their demonstrated excellence in serving their customers,” said Jon Darbyshire, President and CEO of Archer Technologies. “UMB is an industry leader in proactively identifying and managing risk and taking strategic steps to control losses. Their implementation of custom Archer solutions to manage operational risk sets an excellent example for other Archer customers to follow.”

The Archer Excellence Awards are granted each year at the Archer National User Group Summit. This event provides Archer customers in Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies the opportunity to share best-practice approaches to enterprise risk and compliance management. UMB also demonstrated thought leadership at this year’s summit through their participation in the Archer Super Administrator Roundtable Discussion, which focused on innovative uses of the Archer SmartSuite Framework to support key security, compliance, risk and governance initiatives.

About UMB Financial Corporation

UMB Financial Corporation is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., offering complete banking, asset management and related financial services to both individual and business customers. Its banking subsidiaries own and operate 139 banking centers throughout Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Colorado, Oklahoma and Nebraska in addition to a loan production office in 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.

About Archer Technologies

Archer Technologies delivers enterprise governance, risk and compliance (E-GRC) solutions. With more than six million licensed users and a client list that includes one in four of the Fortune 100, Archer enables highly regulated companies to reduce enterprise risks, manage and demonstrate compliance, automate business processes, and gain visibility into corporate risk and security controls.

All Archer solutions are built on the highly flexible Archer SmartSuite Framework, allowing clients to tailor the solutions according to their unique requirements and to build new on-demand applications to expand their E-GRC program. As a result, many of Archer’s clients consider the Framework their go-to platform for rapid application development.

Archer clients maximize their use of the Framework through the Archer Exchange, an online marketplace of applications, services, content and integration solutions, and the Archer Community, an online social network of discussion forums, product ideas, downloads and resources. Through this supporting Archer ecosystem, clients have the tools and services they need to build a best-in-class E-GRC program. For more information, visit www.archer-tech.com.