Cooking the Books podcast: How to make your credit card company give you money

Each week, BusinessDesk and the NZ Herald’s Cooking the Books podcast tackle a different money problem. Today, it’s how to make the most of your credit card, and the different deals at the moment. Hosted by Frances Cook.

Credit cards can be a divisive topic.

On one hand, they’re a source of debt, which often comes with high interest rates and can hold you back.

But on the other hand, if you use them carefully, you can get rewards and perks for no cost.

What those rewards and perks can actually be varies widely, and is often quite different in New Zealand and Australia to the rest of the world.

For the latest podcast, I talked to Jose George, general manager for Canstar New Zealand.

For the interview, listen to the podcast here.

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