Infosys Ltd’s incoming CEO Salil Satish Parekh faces three choices: He can create a more valuable company, return cash to shareholders, or kick the can to a new set of owners. Unlike his predecessor, who got into a messy skirmish with the company’s still-powerful co-founders, Parekh will have some latitude to choose his strategy. For one thing, he has the …

Akzo Nobel NV boss Thierry Vanlancker has the chance of a second stab at a jumbo chemicals deal with US peer Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. He should grab it. Axalta’s negotiating position has been weakened after it started talks with Japan’s Nippon Paint Holdings Co. Ltd. last month, having already entered into discussions with Akzo about a possible all-share merger. …

Might this be China’s new Venezuela? Beijing’s frenzied drive to create a modern Silk Road puts Pakistan front and center, much as Venezuela was once a target of lending by China Development Bank as the nation sought to secure oil supplies. Of the $6 billion to $7 billion of current development projects in Pakistan as part of the China-Pakistan Economic …