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This is Money Show - Nationwide shocker, DVLA madness, would you buy a bank?

This is Money Podcast

This is Money

Business, Investing, Business News, News

4.4735 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week Rachel Rickard Straus joins editor Simon Lambert and Share Radio presenter Georgie Frost for a fun look at the week's money news.

This week a shocker from Nationwide on savings rates (clue it was a rise), the DVLA's driving licence hire car madness, what to do if your holiday is hit by Spanish air strikes.

And the RBS question: would you buy (or sell) a bank now?

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

Producer: Georgie Frost


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Transcript

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0:00.0

A very warm welcome to consuming issues.

0:10.3

I'm Georgie Frost here with you every weekday from 9 until 1 on Share Radio, on digital online and through the share radio mobile app making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further.

0:20.3

The team from This is Money, the award-winning finance section of the Mail Online, are back in the studio for our weekly catch-up,

0:26.4

editor Simon Lambert, joined by journalist Rachel Rickard Strauss here today to talk through the top stories they've been investigating,

0:33.0

including another week, another host of banking woes.

0:36.9

Thousands of jobs to go at Wants Away HSBC.

0:40.1

Compensation paid out since 2010.

0:42.2

It's reached £200 billion.

0:44.3

Criticism over the government's big banks sell-off

0:46.5

and the clampdown on bad bankers, will it make any difference?

0:50.6

For the best in the industry, this is just how you run your business. But for others,

0:56.2

for those who free ride on your reputation, the age of your responsibility is over.

1:02.3

Saying all that, though, is there ever such a thing as a nice surprise from your bank? Well,

1:06.4

hold on to your hats. Simon Lambert thinks there may be. Also today, no, it's not the French this time.

1:12.4

It's the Spanish strikes that may impact your holiday abroad. Thousands of flights to our

1:17.3

favourite destination could be affected. Another potential pain for holiday goers. New rules from

1:22.6

the DVLA mean a potential headache if you want to hire a car broad. That's if you can

1:27.4

even get on the

1:28.6

website. We'll be looking at the article. Will Tories close the salary sacrifice loophole, giving

1:34.4

popular pension perk to low and middle earners and exploring with the end of the supermarket

1:39.9

giants is nigh as Morrison takes the price war to a whole new level. Plus, we are asking today. Unpredictable Friday night telly is back.

2:03.2

TFI returns Friday at 9 on 4.

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