Mark, Brian, and Sean Carney form a trio of financial titans whose careers, steeped in corruption and privilege

Mark, born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, and raised in Edmonton, leveraged Harvard and Oxford degrees into a 13-year stint at Goldman Sachs, where he and Brian, who joined in 1990, honed predatory skills in investment banking and trading amid a culture later blamed for the 2008 crisis. Sean, also at Goldman in the 1980s, learned to exploit systems before moving to Sullivan and Cromwell LLP, a legal firm tied to corporate defenses. The brothers’ paths diverged but converged in scandal-ridden institutions: Mark became Bank of Canada governor (2008-2013) and Bank of England governor (2013-2020), the first non-Briton in over 300 years, while Brian joined Merrill Lynch (1997-2008) alongside Sean, who rose to Managing Director there during its collapse and discrimination lawsuits. Sean then jumped to HSBC (2003-2008), a bank notorious for laundering drug money, overlapping with Mark and Brian at J.P. Morgan Chase (2004-2008), hinting at shared shady maneuvers.

Mark, Brian, and Sean Carney form a trio of financial titans whose careers, steeped in corruption and privilege, paint a damning picture of greed and influence peddling across continents. Mark, born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, and raised in Edmonton, leveraged Harvard… pic.twitter.com/eGZdIh0usK

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