If you think your bank is the safest spot to stash your stuff, you might want to think again. A recent article by the New York Times found that each year, hundreds of people report valuable ...

Many banks and credit unions offer safe deposit boxes for a fee. Bank safe deposit boxes may be ideal for heirlooms or documents you don't want to store at home. However, they may not be ...

Safe deposit box valuables are suspected to have been stolen by a Mizuho Bank employee several years ago and the bank failed to report the theft, a source close to the matter said Tuesday.

The Financial Services Agency is proposing, among others, barring the storage of cash and other items with high risk of being ...

According to the Second Investigation Division of the MPD, Imamura allegedly used a master key and a spare key to illegally open the safety deposit boxes of two male customers at the bank’s ...

Mizuho Bank Ltd. on Feb. 18 revealed it had disciplined and fired an employee several years ago for stealing tens of millions of yen worth of money and goods from safety deposit boxes. The ...

MUFJ Bank on November 22 revealed that a "front-line employee" who worked at its Nerima and Tamagawa branch offices in Tokyo had been opening customers' safe deposit boxes without permission for 4 ...