Bloomberg Bidvest Group Ltd.’s banking unit agreed to buy FinGlobal, a provider of financial services to South Africans living outside the country, as part of an acquisition drive to expand and diversify its business. Bidvest Bank will fund the purchase out of its 2 billion rand ($142 million) in cash reserves, Managing Director Japie van Niekerk said by phone on …

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank chief said interest rates will likely rise eventually as policy makers’ patience is finally rewarded with unemployment falling sufficiently to spur wage growth and faster inflation. “We’re not too far away from 2 percent and I think we’ll get there, we’re just not getting there as quickly as we would like to,” Governor Philip Lowe said …

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc said its fares are set to gain this winter, buoyed by the collapse of carriers including UK-based Monarch Airlines Ltd. and capacity cuts at main European rival Ryanair Holdings Plc. The demise of Monarch and Germany’s Air Berlin Plc, a bankruptcy filing at Italy’s Alitalia SpA and Ryanair’s move to scrap part of its timetable amid a …