I have some bad news, and some probably-not-terrible news about Apple Inc. The bad news was Apple didn’t have a terrific holiday season for its most important product. Apple said that it sold 1.2 percent fewer iPhones in the three months ended December 30 than it did in the same period of 2016. Analysts had expected those unit sales to ...

The fintech dating game is on in Paris. Entrepreneurs in Europe’s financial-technology sector are pushing low-cost payments solutions to steal market share from banks, hoping the challenge they pose will spur the lenders to buy them or seek partnerships with them. Many startups are eyeing deals or potential backing in Paris to meet the top executives of French finance, from ...

Bloomberg India’s lenders, already struggling with $210 billion of stressed assets, may have to prepare for another hit as early as the coming financial year if new accounting norms kick in as planned on April 1. The IndAS — based on the IFRS9 standards created in the aftermath of the financial crisis — would require banks to make provisions for ...