Credit cards have reduced our apparent ability to budget - but at a price.

The prostitute given $2.4 million by fraudulent banker Stephen Versalko is far from the high end of the escort business.

The wife of the $18 million ASB fraudster has spoken of her pain as other family lash out at the big-spending criminal.

The future of bumbling New York banker Ira Goldstein - one of TV's most familiar faces - is uncertain, as ASB assesses his place in future campaigns.

If it wasn't for Bernie Madoff, Stephen Versalko could still be stealing millions.

A victim of Stephen Versalko's $17.8 million fraud has spoken of the day she was told he had been "naughty" and had defrauded her and 25 other investors out of millions of dollars.

The scale of the fraud makes Stephen Versalko's case the largest single employment theft in New Zealand history.