DCFC may be no more?

[Geoff Parkstone]

Ah...and you were being so nice yesterday.

Difficult to imagine anything more ‘doomie’ than your final sentence. Suppose it depends on your taste.

Serious question...is there any likelihood that the dynamic duo - Brexit and Covid (not Gunt and TTR) - might have caused a delay in the transfer of such a huge amount?

I would have to say "unlikely". The international banking system has operated just fine during the previous 10 months of COVID lockdowns etc, after a couple of hiccoughs. It essentially is all automated with minimal need for human intervention. I suppose if all authorised signatories at the sender's end were struck down with covid and there was noone to initiate or authorise the transaction, that might make it tricky... (but not gunterry).

But actually in international trade terms, is it such a huge amount?

As for Brexit, well it probably will get blamed for it, but a transaction between a UK bank and a non EU bank (presumably as the holding company of Derventio is in Gibraltar) seems unlikely to be impacted