10/14/2020

The Oklahoma Project

Driving on the open, flat highways in Oklahoma can play tricks on your sense of time. The scenery mostly looks the same, so it feels like you’re going nowhere fast. But then, you look down and suddenly realize you’re pushing 90 miles an hour. I can’t help but wonder if that same feeling – moving gradually, then all at once – is one that stakeholders of Stride Bank can relate to. For years, the Enid, Oklahoma-based institution operated like your typical community bank, growing at a slow and steady pace. But then Stride looked down and realized it was topping…

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WRITTEN BY

Amber Buker

Amber Buker is the program director of FinXTech Connect, a curated online directory of bank-friendly fintech companies. She conducts interviews with senior bank leaders and technology executives, writes profiles on fintech companies and maintains a database of information that helps banks source potential technology partners. Prior to Bank Director, Amber served as the Program Director for the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville. She earned her Juris Doctor with honors and a certificate in intellectual property from Lewis and Clark Law School in 2015 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Northeastern State University. Amber is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, where she serves on the Executive Council of the LGBT Section of the state bar.

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