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More bank results, more cuts, and less business; the last holiday-shortened week brought plenty of changes to the industry.

As if there wasn’t enough political risk to worry about for capital markets — June alone has the UK’s referendum on EU membership and a rerun of last year’s Spanish general election — then all those concerns have just been Trumped.

Today’s capital regime for banks is the result of compromise and incrementalism. Hardly a surprise, but the result is unworkable. CFA-qualified, brain-on-a-stick analysts will breeze through a series of 3D Sudoku puzzles, yet struggle to understand the capital situation of a bank.

Rating agency Fitch went against the norm last week when it publicly questioned the investment grade status given to Chinese online retailer JD.com by its peers. While commenting on rival deals tends to be a rarity in Asia, such an approach can only be good for the long-term development of capital markets.

Despite my busy post-retirement schedule of keeping up with Tai Tai and holding marathon drinking sessions at my favourite watering holes, I found time recently to attend one of those big investment conferences in town.

Sri Lanka needs to overcome China-phobia by convincing people that it can develop a relationship with its larger neighbour that is now seen as over-reliant

Sri Lanka’s finance minister, who has helped engineer a growth recovery, tells Emerging Markets that he is fed up with “pontificating” Western politicians telling him to adopt green policies that would end up adding costs for his citizens

EFG Bank reigns supreme in Asiamoney’s latest Private Banking Poll, as voted by high net worth individuals across Asia Pacific.

Senior policymakers at the ADB annual meetings appeared non-plussed about a Donald Trump US presidency and were reluctant to be drawn — although one expert doubted the Republican challenger knew what the ADB was

China risks facing a backlash from countries along its new economic Silk Road unless it is more transparent, warned leading experts this week

Co-operation and co-ordination are the two buzzwords in development banking as the infrastructure funding gap gets wider and wider

The yen eased back from recent five-year highs on Wednesday after the Japanese finance minister Taro Aso called the recent surge in the currency speculative and hinted he would take moves to curb its strength