Sure, the separation agreement and fee paid by Barclays Plc will go some way to smoothing out the impact, but some costs are going to slowly (and potentially not-so-slowly) reappear. A source familiar with the integration and now separation processes has described just how many costs are not being recovered (nor being tracked accurately) by the parent. So, while the break fee will cover the costs Barclays Plc and Barclays Africa know about (and are tracking) in the near-term, the African unit will have to confront these at some point… probably sooner than anyone thinks.