Never mind the extra curricular activities of Wayne Rooney! I want to know when the commercial brains that run world football will get their house in order?

So another week starts with news that another couple of greedy and errant brokers have seen their reputations bite the dust – courtesy of the FSA’s compliance muscle – after they admitted their involvement in numerous counts of mortgage fraud.

Is it me, or is the news really as unnewsworthy as I think it is?

It doesn’t matter how illustrious your brand is, it seems that today no-one is immune from the threat of insider fraud. In the last few days in the US, a senior employee of Apple (creators of the iconic iPhone and iPod) has been charged with selling company secrets to Asian suppliers in exchange for at least $1 million dollars in alleged kickbacks.

Researchers at KPMG have been playing with their abacuses in recent weeks and calculate that the number of cases of mortgage fraud in the UK has almost quadrupled in the first six months of 2010 – reaching an unwelcome 22-year high!

I cast my eyes over an interesting document again the other day – one that should make uncomfortable reading for anyone who is committed to stamping out fraud in its many guises.

The FSA’s recently published Small Firms’ Financial Crime Review is yet another case of the former Labour government promising a lot – and delivering very little!

The lawyer representing Jerome Kerviel – the trader who almost destroyed Societe Generale – has told the world that the culture prevailing at the famous French bank was one of lax internal controls, market manipulation and cheating.

Solicitors Regulation Authority figures UK is on the verge of a white collar epidemic