First Municipal Bank and Trust was founded in 1911 and has been an institution of the City ever since. Of eleven banks that were founded in the City prior to 1929, it was one of only two that survived the market crash and subsequent Great Depression intact.
Today there are branches of First Municipal throughout the City and surrounding suburbs, but the original building still stands in the middle of downtown and has been designated a historical landmark by the City Historical and Architectural Preservation society. Inside the grand, marble-tiled lobby, bank tellers still conduct business from behind mahogany counters and cashier gates of polished, scrolled brass.
The downtown branch has been the victim of numerous robberies throughout the decades, but the bank prides itself on handling such events with calm and decorum. No customer or employee of First Municipal has ever been injured during a hold-up. The bank's record is not so fortunate with the robbers themselves, however. In 1973 four would-be bank robbers were locked into the bank's main vault by a quick-thinking employee. Unfortunately, the vault's new time-lock was engaged, and the steel door could not be opened by any means for the next 12 hours. By the time they were able to get the robbers out, they had all suffocated.
The bank was recently the target of an armed robbery by Cheryl Banning and several NextWorld operatives.