Banks are a safe place to keep your money.

They use security guards,

security cameras, alarms, and vaults to protect your cash. Banks offer
financial services like checking accounts, savings accounts, loan
departments, and investment plans. They are a good place to get rolls
of coins, cashier's checks, money orders, and savings bonds. Almost
all banks have ATM machines outside their buildings and some banks
even have drive-thru windows. 
 What is a bank?
A bank is a safe place to keep your money.
 
Banks provide financial services to customers.
 
Financial services include savings accounts,
checking accounts, money orders, loans, and
investment plans.

What kind of job does this woman have?

She is a bank teller.
 
Bank tellers deposit and withdraw money from
bank accounts, cash checks, and sell money
orders.
 
Some banks offer free checking accounts.
 What is the man doing?
He is using the ATM to withdraw cash from his bank
account.
 
ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine.
 
Customers can withdraw money or deposit money
from their bank accounts by using an ATM.

What is a loan officer?

A loan officer is a bank employee who helps
customers borrow money.
 
Customers borrow money to buy a car, a house,
or a business.
 
Banks charge interest on the money that
borrowers borrow.
How do banks transport cash?
They use armored trucks to pick up
and deliver cash.
 
Security guards with guns work on
the armored trucks.

Where do banks keep large

amounts of cash?
They keep large amounts of cash in
vaults.
 
Bank vaults have steel doors with
special locks.
 Are banks open at night?
What are these?
No. Most banks are closed at night.
They are safe deposit boxes.
 
 
Although banks are closed at night,
Customers can rent safe deposit
ATMs outside of banks are open all
boxes at a bank.
night long.
 
 
Safe deposit boxes are a good place
Be careful if you use an ATM at
to keep important papers and
night.
valuable items.