Bloomberg Barclays Africa Group’s Kenyan unit reported full-year profit that was little changed as bad loans increased on rising credit costs. Net income was 8.4 billion shillings ($83 million) in the 12 months through December, compared with 8.39 billion shillings a year earlier, Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd. Chief Financial Officer Yusuf Omari told reporters Friday in the capital, Nairobi. …

RIGA / Bloomberg A Latvian lender linked to a string of money-laundering probes was closed by the European Central Bank (ECB). Trasta Komercbanka AS, the Baltic nation’s 13th-biggest lender by assets, had its license revoked after local regulators slapped restrictions on it in January. Latvia’s Financial and Capital Market Commission, which doesn’t deem the bank systemically important, said the move …

SUnaina Rana / EMIRATES BUSINESS As Ralph Nader said — the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers — the same principle is followed by US-based Young Presidents Organisation (YPO). Founded in 1950, YPO today provides 23,000 peers and their families in more than 130 countries with access to unique educational and networking experiences designed to …