Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, April 13th,

and this is your FT News briefing.

We'll start today with an update on the green cell capital meltdown.

The FT is Rob Smith is back to tell us about the widening political fallout,

and a big name cyber security technology company plans to float in London.

Plus, US states are hoping online sports betting will plug the revenue holes the pandemic has

left in their budgets. There are very few things that you can do which will yield $300

million a year in tax revenues, and sports betting, mobile sports betting is one of those things.

But will it be enough? A marked Filipino? And here's the news you need to start your day.

The ripples continue to widen from the recent collapse of green cell capital.

Yesterday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson commissioned an independent inquiry into the lobbying

activities by former UK Prime Minister David Cameron on behalf of green cell. This came a day

after Cameron made his first public comments on the matter. After more than a month of dodging

media queries from the FT, Rob Smith is the FT's capital markets correspondent. He's been covering

the green cell saga since the beginning. Hey, Rob. Hey, good to be back.

Rob, just to get our listeners up to speed here, Johnson has been quick to go after Cameron

but what about the current chancellor, Rishi Sunak? Cameron had texted Sunak urging him to give

green cell access to a COVID loan scheme. Could this at all affect Sunak? Well, I think it's quite

interesting because essentially a lot of the focus has been around David Cameron lobbying around

getting green cell on a specific COVID loan scheme. And that was rejected. But the treasury

did approve green cell capital for another scheme. So it did have access to government

back money to help businesses out of the coronavirus pandemic. And what's really interesting

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