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BEIJING: China Merchants Bank, the country's sixth largest lender, said late Wednesday its net profit jumped 40.42 percent year-on-year to 5.91 billion yuan ($865 million) in the first three months of 2010.
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According to the bank's quarterly report, most of its 15.62 billion yuan ($2.28 billion) operating revenue during the January-March period came from interest income, which stood at 12.51 billion yuan ($1.83 billion), up 32 percent from a year ago.
By the end of March, the lender registered a non-performing loan?rate of 0.74 percent with bad loans of 9.38 billion yuan ($1.37 billion).
The bank's capital adequacy ratio rose to 11.53 percent by the end of March, up 1.08 percentage points from the end of 2009, thanks to its rights offering in A-shares market in Shanghai Stock Exchange.