Mr Bernanke's personal bank account became entangled in an elaborate identity-theft scheme after his wife Anna's purse was stolen last August at a Starbucks coffee shop in Washington DC. According to a police report, it contained her Social Security card, cheque book, credit cards and IDs. Read the full story from the Telegraph.

The amount of fraud being committed on plastic cards across the country fell in the first half of the year, industry body Financial Fraud Action UK says.

Losses totalled £233m in the six months - down by 23% on both the first and second halves of last year.  Read the full story from the BBC...