Bloomberg Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government is adding more commercial flights from the UK, India and South Africa and boosting quarantine places so that more Australians stranded overseas by the pandemic can return home. Morrison said Qantas Airways Ltd will provide eight flights over coming weeks from London, New Delhi and Johannesburg. Australia’s capacity to let citizens and permanent residents …

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BofA) inched closer to its diversity goals last year, and said it recognises more needs to be done. Racial and gender representation increased in most areas of the company, including among senior management, according to data by the bank. Still, the percentage of women in the top three tiers of the firm remained unchanged from …

Bloomberg The Bank of Thailand extended its 500 billion baht ($16 billion) “soft loan” program for small and medium-sized enterprises by six months to help with the effects of the lingering Covid-19 outbreak, the central bank said on its website. The central bank also relaxed rules to allow listed SMEs to join the low interest-rate lending program, which started April …