Bloomberg Bank of Nova Scotia said fiscal first-quarter profit rose 11 percent, beating analysts’ estimates, on gains in capital markets. The lender raised its quarterly dividend 2.7 percent to 76 cents a share. Net income for the period ended Jan. 31 climbed to C$2.01 billion ($1.52 billion), or C$1.57 a share, from C$1.81 billion, or C$1.43, a year earlier, …

  DUBAI / Reuters Barclays Africa Group Ltd. is preparing to list its NewGold ETF on the Nairobi Securities Exchange after receiving regulatory approval to begin trading the securities. “We expect the listing to take place early this year,’’ Michael Mgwaba, head of exchange traded products at Johannesburg-based Barclays Africa’s Absa Capital unit, said in an e-mailed response to questions. …

  Bloomberg A Societe Generale SA executive will have his testimony in a Libyan bribery lawsuit heard in secret because of the risk he may incriminate himself in a U.S. criminal probe. Judge Nigel Teare refused a request by head of sales for global markets Marc El Asmar to escape testifying, according to the banker’s attorneys, who said on Monday …