A year after Greensill Capital’s collapse
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Many people with lingering symptoms of Covid-19 struggle to work or have been forced to leave the workforce entirely. Plus, the FT’s capital markets correspondent, Robert Smith, talks about the lessons learned from the collapse of Greensill Capital a year later.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Long Covid: the invisible public health crisis fuelling labour shortages
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon and Marc Filippino. The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva, and Gavin Kallmann. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk. |
| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.4 | Today is Monday, April 18th. |
| 0:13.4 | And this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:19.1 | We're going to hear about long COVID in the workplace. |
| 0:22.1 | Something employers are starting to pay attention to. |
| 0:25.1 | And do you remember Greenstone Capital, |
| 0:27.5 | the sprawling financial group unraveled last year? |
| 0:30.3 | One of our reporters who investigated the company |
| 0:32.5 | and its founder, Lex Greenstone, is back on the show for an update and other thoughts. |
| 0:37.6 | I think he had a slick pitch around quite a complicated thing |
| 0:41.1 | and people were sort of bamboozled by it and didn't want to put their hand up and go, |
| 0:45.2 | wait a minute. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:50.3 | Many people who have caught COVID recover and then go on with their lives. |
| 1:00.8 | But an estimated 100 million people worldwide suffer from something called |
| 1:05.8 | long COVID. |
| 1:06.8 | It's when symptoms, either physical or cognitive or both, |
| 1:10.5 | last 12 weeks or more. |
| 1:12.8 | And it affects people's ability to do their jobs. |
| 1:15.5 | Delphine Strauss is our economics correspondent. |
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