This is Money - bank tricks and it's better up North

This is Money Podcast

This is Money

Business, Investing, Business News, News

4.4 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week Simon Lambert, Rich Browning and Georgie Frost take a fun look at the week's events. Banks are at it again. They say you don't have to have a contactless debit card if you don't want one but our readers say otherwise. Meanwhile they're introducing clever mind games to assess whether you're fit to be a customer and Tesco Bank slashes the Clubcard benefits on its credit card . Elsewhere, a report into the best places to bring up a family finds it's better up North - unless you live in Cramlington, where homeowners find they don't actually own their homes. Also on the bill are unusual auctions and the latest movie memorabilia from the Star Wars franchise.

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

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0:00.0	A very warm welcome. You're listening to Share Radio. I'm Georgie Frost here with you every weekday from 9 until 1 on digital, online and through the Share Radio mobile app, making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further. The team from This Is Money, the award-winning finance website back in the studio
0:21.0	with me for our weekly catch-up, talking through the stories they've been tackling this
0:24.9	week. Today I'm joined by editor Simon Lambert and journalist Rich Browning. On the agenda today,
0:29.9	the EU eats your club card points. Card firms are going to be earning less. They're trying
0:34.5	to retract that cash in other ways that they can and that means
0:37.5	axing or decreasing the value of their loyalty or cashback schemes. Is banking tech moving too
0:43.1	quickly? Contactless payments sore as the amount we can swipe goes up 50%. But can we opt out? It all comes
0:49.9	just days after HSBC and NatWest suffered IT glitches over the bank holiday weekend,
0:55.5	leaving over 275,000 customers without pay.
0:59.7	Something like payments not going into your account will clearly have a negative effect.
1:03.1	You get in online and having a look at your statements can have serious consequences on being able to budget.
1:08.7	Also today, lenders get personal.
1:10.9	Will you have to take a psychometric test to get a loan, a credit card or a mortgage?
1:15.2	Leasehold, a great idea or just a lucrative way to stop people from buying their own homes outright.
1:21.1	Also, unclaimed luggage, surplus government equipment, or goods seized by the police.
1:25.4	We find out how to bag a posh bargain at auction.
1:28.3	Now, whether it's yachts, parking or yoga and green juice, we take a look at some entrepreneurs with business ideas and no prizes for guessing which franchise is going to be a force to be reckoned with this Christmas.
1:56.6	Yes, I really am that predictable, but as much as possible I try and play the theme tune to Star Wars.
2:19.0	Research at the autumn fair in Birmingham predicts that Star Wars merchandise will be at the top of the most wanted chance for Christmas. Today, indeed, it's Force Friday. According to Disney, brought out the Lucas Film franchise for $4 billion. Yes, stores in the UK opened at midnight to launch the Star Wars. The Force Awakens merchandise.
2:26.9	But, Yolga, what is this place? What is it that you do here? Merchandising. Merchandising?
2:33.2	What's that? Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
2:35.6	Well, the real money from the movie is made. Well, the real money from the movie is made.
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