Chinese banks' reported at the end of last year that their non-performing loan (NPL) ratio jumped to 1.29%, but that number may grossly underestimated the real bad loans among Chinese lenders, and make some investors overlook the dangers of a potential financial crisis in China, says a research report by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. […]

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