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Deutsche Bank’s latest wheeze to pay its best and brightest might look like a crafty sleight of hand typical of weaselly bankers. But having announced a pared-back bonus pool just a few weeks ago, it transpires the firm has ear-marked extra dosh to make up for it. Under the hair shirt was a silk vest all along, one might think. However, Deutsche has no choice but to pay the market rate for staff if it is to deliver any return to shareholders.

The performance of the Asia bond market over the past couple of weeks, despite the macro moves elsewhere, has shown that it can drive forward independently of events in the west. With European and US political volatility waiting in the wings, Asian DCM’s self-sufficiency bodes well.

Even a publishing house could, at a push, bid for a broker the size of Panmure Gordon, whose profits, at around £400,000 a year, certainly aren’t setting the City alight. But it’s the return of Bob Diamond, the former Barclays boss, which has set the broadsheets buzzing.

China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) relaxes restrictions on foreign banks, China sees first net capital inflow in almost three years, and Goldman Sachs estimates $54bn of southbound flows to Hong Kong via Stock Connect by the end of 2017.

This week, the PBoC follows the US Federal Reserve’s rate hike by strengthening the dollar, Korea worries THAAD will imperil renminbi swap line, and China reveals plans to create seven new Free Trade Zones (FTZs).

Bankers around Europe are breathing easier on news that Geert Wilders will not be forming part of the next Dutch government. But why?

Market participants have declared a pair of supranational deals to be top banana in this week's GC BondMarker voting.

Hong Kong’s expat bankers have perfected the art of a post-party client meeting. And they are now showing the rest of the world how, as a young friend of mine just proved on a business trip to Sydney.

The IPO of Innogy was voted Equity Capital Markets Deal of the Year and JP Morgan judged ECM Bank of the Year in GlobalCapital's 2016 Awards - read the full results here.

The Scottish city of Aberdeen may be long past its 1980s heyday — when it was the hub of the burgeoning North Sea oil industry and its football team was one of the most feared in Europe — but it could soon find itself being a useful capital markets bellwether for the latest constitutional crisis to hit the UK.

It is all very well pressing to harmonise bank resolution frameworks across Europe, but the market has to get on with harmonising the terminology as well.

The cloud hanging over South Korea’s financial markets has been lifted after the country’s president Park Geun-Hye was ordered to resign her office last week, impeached following a six month influence peddling scandal involving her close friend Choi Soon-Sil.