Kansas-based UMB Financial Corporation has appointed DeAnna Basler as its new executive vice president of private client services. She will ...

Kansas-based UMB Financial Corporation has appointed DeAnna Basler as its new executive vice president of private client services. She will also serve as president and chief executive of UMB Scout Brokerage Services, with the merging of the two divisions. She will report to Joe Gazzoli, executive vice president of UMB Asset Management. Ms Basler joins from JP Morgan Asset Management in New York, where she was managing director and had national account management responsibility for the firm’s broker/dealer division. Prior to that, she was managing director for UBS Global Asset Management, leading their third-party distribution. She also has held senior positions at American Century and Oppenheimer Capital. "DeAnna is a well-respected leader in the asset management industry and is the person we wanted to lead our newly aligned private client and brokerage divisions...we are extremely pleased she will be joining us," said Peter deSilva, president and chief operating officer of UMB Financial Corporation, in a statement. UMB Financial Corporation is a multi-bank holding company offering complete banking and related financial services to both individual and business customers. Its banking subsidiaries own and operate 138 banking centres throughout Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska in addition to a loan production office in Arizona.