The roots of our financial strength trace back to the Abraham Lincoln administration approving national bank charter No. 24 on July 13, 1863, which provided our predecessor First National Bank of Cincinnati its license to operate across the country. We still operate by the words written in our charter, “The capital of a bank should be a reality, not a fiction … Let no loans be made that are not secured beyond a reasonable contingency … Pursue a straightforward, upright banking business.”