My favourite bit in the Wall Street Journal story about Wells Fargo & Co.’s latest regulatory screw-up was this statement from the bank’s public relations department: Over the past several months we’ve built more robust internal processes that reinforce our values, and if we find any situations where behavior violates those values, we take swift action to correct. To which ...

Xiaomi Corp.’s IPO killer just arrived on the scene. China Tower Corp., a telecommunications construction firm that’s owned by the country’s three state operators, is following in the smartphone seller’s footsteps, applying to go public in Hong Kong. The Beijing-based group may raise as much as $10 billion, putting it in the same league as Xiaomi, which is seeking a ...

One year after the election that ushered in the youngest president in French history, Emmanuel Macron isn’t interested in assessments; his reforms, he says, will take a few years to bring results. But one thing is certain: Macron has quietly shelved the best ideas from his campaign and the early days of his administration. The first shelved idea was a ...