Graham Hand, author of the expose Naked Among Cannibals: What really happens inside Australian banks has died at the age of 66.
Colleagues of Graham at the investment website Firstlinks shared news of his death early yesterday, from cancer.
Naked Among Cannibals (Allen & Unwin, 2001) is the only unvarnished insider account of banking in Australia.
Sure, there are books by a parade of former Westpac CEOs, none memorable.
In Naked Among Cannibals Graham analysed the true workings of the Australian banking cartel and shared plenty of colourful stories of State Bank of NSW.
Graham was deputy treasurer at State Bank of NSW when this writer had the pleasure of meeting him in 1989.
Graham contributed two superb commentaries to Banking Day, here and here.
In 2012, Graham was one of the founders of Cuffelinks, now Firstlinks, and thus a fellow media entrepreneur, a topic on which we had plenty of chats.
