03.12.2008 2:46 pm

Commerce Bancshares CEO Kemper’s pay rises 80 percent

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

David W. Kemper, chief executive of Commerce Bancshares Inc., saw his pay jump 80 percent to $3.35 million last year, largely due to exercising stock options worth $1.8 million.

Kemper, 57, who runs the parent of Commerce Bank, got a 2 percent increase…

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01.15.2008 9:39 am

Commerce Bancshares earnings fall 6 percent

By Jerri Stroud

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Commerce Bancshares Inc. said its earnings fell 6 percent last year after taking a pre-tax charge of $21 million for the company’s share of estimated costs of lawsuits involving VISA USA Inc., the credit card company.

Commerce also said it expects “significant…

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