If you have been looking for a place to keep your documents, collectibles, family heirlooms and other valuables secure, consider a safe deposit box rental. Perhaps you saw a movie with a spy rifling ...

Safety deposit boxes offer enhanced security for valuables but aren't accessible outside bank hours. Items in safe deposit boxes are not FDIC insured; separate insurance is needed for coverage. Legal ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Betsy began her career in international finance and it has since grown into a comprehensive ...

Safe deposit boxes are a danger hidden in plain sight. It is tempting to think of them as an appropriate repository for all things valuable: jewelry, coins, cash, wills, powers of attorney. Cash is ...

I have a distant, elderly aunt in Los Angeles who barely spends any money and keeps all her savings in a safe-deposit box at a bank. She has no immediate family. We are actually the only relatives she ...

It began with a bundle of historical documents, a locked safety deposit box in a Coral Gables bank and a 36-year-old typo. What transpired was a "Kafkaesque nightmare" for Miami attorney David Winker.

After rare coins worth an estimated $3.6 million went missing, a customer of a now-shuttered Bank of America branch in metro Detroit is questioning whether safe deposit boxes, where the coins had been ...

'I am asking for my mom, who is on a fixed income. It would be a nice boon.' "Mind you, we have no idea which bank it's even at." (Photo subject is a model.) Dear Quentin, I have a distant, elderly ...