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Financial firms are being told they will be forced to treat their customers better under plans by the regulator for a new 鈥淐onsumer Duty鈥�. It will set down a higher level of consumer protection that firms will have to follow. The consultation on the plans has just been published and the new rules should be in force by the middle of next year. Paul Lewis talks to Nisha Arora, Director of Consumer and Retail Policy at the Financial Conduct Authority.

Money Box continues to get complaints from customers who have current accounts with the online firm Pockit. They tell us that the money in their accounts - often thousands of pounds - has been frozen, sometimes for months. Virraj Jatania, Pockit鈥檚 founder and Chief Executive, provides some answers.

Every month millions of people in the UK use the social media platform TikTok. It specialises in short videos normally made by individuals on their mobile phone and edited to music. The videos cover everything from comedy to dance to money. But we hear about concerns that these videos encourage young people to get into bad money habits.

Presenter: Paul Lewis
Researcher: Sowda Ali
Reporter: Dan Whitworth
Production co-ordinator: Janet Staples
Producer: Ben Carter
Editor: Alex Lewis