Bank of Oklahoma Headquarters Information

Bank of Oklahoma is one of seven banking divisions that’s operated by BOK Financial Corporation. It is the flagship of the holding company which also shares the bank’s name.

The bank is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma as is the holding company. The holding company has operations in ten states and employs around 4,800 people in its various holdings.

The seven banking division of the BOK Financial Corporation are:

• Bank of Oklahoma
• Bank of Arizona
• Bank of Albuquerque
• Bank of Kansas City
• Colorado State Bank and Trust
• Bank of Texas
• Bank of Arkansas

BOK Financial Corporation currently has a market capitalization of $6.2 billion. It’s assets by the end of 2017 had an estimated worth of $33 billion. Most of these assets are under Bank of Oklahoma.

History of Bank of Oklahoma

The history of Bank of Oklahoma kicked off in 1910 when the Exchange National Bank of Tulsa was created by four men who had bought what remained of the Farmers National Bank that had failed.

Harry F. Sinclair was one of the main investors and he became the president of the bank. In 1917, Exchange National Bank of Tulsa started work on a new building at Third Street and Boston Avenue in Tulsa.

Just over ten years later, the bank would put up another building, a 28-story tower, adjacent to the first.

The combined structure now goes by the name 320 South Boston Building and was Tulsa’s tallest building until 1967. It was the tallest in all of Oklahoma until 1931.

During the Great Depression, when many financial institutions struggled, a number of people in the oil industry injected $18 million of their own money into the bank to ensure it stayed afloat. Thanks to this, it was able to play a key role in the oil boom that flowed in the 30s.

The bank was reorganized in 1933 and it became the National Bank of Tulsa (NBT). NBT later changed the name to Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) in 1975.

In 1976, the bank started moving its employees to the recently finished BOK Tower where it remains to date.

Bank of Oklahoma was bought by George Kaiser in 1990 after being granted the Open Bank Assistance package by the FDIC 4 years earlier.

At that time, the bank had assets valued at $2 billion and 20 branches within Oklahoma.

After the acquisition, a period of aggressive expansion followed as the bank acquired other financial institutions in:

• Oklahoma
• Arizona
• Texas
• Kansas
• New Mexico
• Arkansas
• Colorado
• Missouri

Bank of Oklahoma Headquarters

The main offices of Bank of Oklahoma are now located at BOK Tower in Tulsa. The skyscraper was previously also known as One Williams Center.

The building stands at 667 feet in height and has 52 stories to the top.

Before the construction of Devon Tower in 2011, there was no taller building in the five ‘plain states’ plus a few of the other nearby states.

The building was completed in 1976 and was designed by the same architect who designed the WTC in New York City.

 

 

Bank of Oklahoma Headquarters Address

BOK Tower, Tulsa, OK 74103, USA

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