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Amelia A.J. Bond is opening a St. Louis office for George K. Baum & Co., a Kansas City-based public finance firm.

Bond worked as managing director and head of public finance for Wachovia Securities for two years after its merger with A.G. Edwards in 2007. Before the merger, she served for seven years as senior vice president and director of public finance for A.G. Edwards.

While leading the A.G. Edwards public finance department from 2001 to 2007, Bond supervised the doubling of annual revenue for the department.

From 2003 to 2006, Bond served on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, the regulator for U.S. municipal bonds, and she was elected by fellow board members to serve as its chairman during the 2005-2006 fiscal year. She is only the second woman to have held that position in the organization’s 30-year history.

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