Commerce Bancshares Inc. and UMB Financial Corp. were recently ranked among the top-performing banks nationwide.

As announced in late July by Bank Director magazine, Commerce ranked fourth and UMB placed 30^th in the category for institutions with assets between $5 billion and $50 billion.

The ranking involved the magazine’s annual scorecard of publically owned U.S. banks and thrifts that are also listed on the NASDAQ OMX and NYSE EURONEXT stock exchanges. There are 467 institutions in this year’s ranking, divided into four separate asset categories. UMB and Commerce are in the second highest category by assets. Commerce was reported with $20.6 billion and UMB at $13.5 billion in assets.