When you talk about banking in the Kansas City area, two family names always come to the forefront: the Kempers, predictably, and the Thompsons.
Country Club Bank Chairman Byron Thompson, a leading investor in Missouri and Kansas banks for 50 years, bought control of Country Club in 1985, when it had $45 million in assets. Today? It’s a $1.2 billion-asset bank offering a wide variety of financial services.
Thompson had 11 kids and ingrained banking in their lives at an early age. One, Paul Thompson,…
When you talk about banking in the Kansas City area, two family names always come to the forefront: the Kempers, predictably, and the Thompsons.
Country Club Bank Chairman Byron Thompson, a leading investor in Missouri and Kansas banks for 50 years, bought control of Country Club in 1985, when it had $45 million in assets. Today? It’s a $1.2 billion-asset bank offering a wide variety of financial services.
Thompson had 11 kids and ingrained banking in their lives at an early age. One, Paul Thompson,…