Lenders face increased 'risks from slowing economy, rising NPLs'

Bank of China Ltd, the country's fourth-largest commercial lender by assets, posted 0.74 percent growth in net profit attributable to shareholders of the parent company in 2015 on Wednesday.

Chen Siqing, president of BOC, said: "Commercial banks have reached the end of the era when they had double-digit profit growth and have entered the age of single-digit growth.