UMBF Umb Financial Corp

Management Discussion

• The Company focuses on the following four core strategic objectives.  Management believes these strategic objectives will guide its efforts to achieve its vision, to deliver the unparalleled customer experience, all while seeking to improve net income and strengthen the balance sheet while undertaking prudent risk management.
• The first strategic objective is to continuously improve operating efficiencies. The Company has focused on identifying efficiencies that simplify our organizational and reporting structures, streamline back office functions and take advantage of synergies and newer technologies among various platforms and distribution networks. The Company has identified and expects to continue identifying ongoing efficiencies through the normal course of business that, when combined with increased revenue, will contribute to improved operating leverage. For 2018, total revenue increased 3.0 percent, while noninterest expense increased 1.8 percent, as compared to the previous year.  As part of this initiative, the Company continues to invest in technological advances that it believes will help management drive operating leverage in the future through improved data analysis and automation. The Company
• also continues to evaluate core systems and will invest in enhancements that it believes will yield operating efficiencies.