THE Margin couldn't help but notice that Martin Kenney, the chap behind Interclaim, the financial salvage (debt collection to you or me) company down in the IFSC, has some interesting comments on women as fraudsters.

In a paper on fraud published last month, Mr Kenney and his partner, Eugene Becker, used "he" and "him" all the way through and deliberately so too.

According to the financial salvors (debt collectors), "the use of the appellations he and him was not coincidental." "In the authors' circumnavigation in pursuit of miscreants, we have yet to find, address or receive instructions about a woman who was the alleged perpetrator of a large-scale fraud," they write.

The Margin is a bit confused - are the authors suggesting that women are simply too honest to get into the fraud business or simply not up to setting up a big scam? Female fraudsters, who feel a bit undervalued, can go knocking on the Interclaim door down in the IFSC.