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Iris Tan
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Bank of China's Net Interest Margin Expansion Weaker Than Peers' in 2017

Narrow-moat Bank of China’s 2017 4.76% year-on-year net profit growth was largely in line with our expectation. We are a bit disappointed to see weaker-than-peer improvement in net interest margin, but BOC's 10.6% net interest income growth was on par with peers. NIM increased just 1 basis point from 2016, lower than the 3- and 6-basis-point increases for ABC and ICBC. Contrary to peers seeing sequential increases in NIM, BOC’s fourth-quarter NIM fell 2 basis points from the third quarter. We su...
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Bank of China Limited Class A

BANK OF CHINA LIMITED is a China-based commercial bank. The Bank is mainly engaged in the provision of banking and related financial services, including commercial banking business, investment banking business, insurance business, direct investments and investment management businesses, fund management business and aircraft leasing business, as well as others. The Company mainly provides loans to individual and corporate clients. The Bank mainly operates its businesses in China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, as well as other countries.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Iris Tan

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