Unless you happen to work in corporate finance, you might never have known Bernard Katz. Yet Katz, an unassuming auditor described as a “kind family man” with a fearsome intellect, has written a rollicking memoir about his 30 years at Standard Bank’s merchant banking business that shines a merciless light on what happens in the shadows.
Titled The Dogs of Fox Street, where the merchant bank was based, some of the stories of late-night revelry, strip clubs and initiation rites of raw eggs and tequila wouldn’t be out of place in Jordan Belfort’s The Wolf of Wall Street...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and TimesLive Premium.