April 16 (Reuters) - Bank of America's profit fell as the lender earned less from customer interest payments.

The second-largest U.S. lender earned a profit of $6.7 billion, or 76 cents a share, for the three months ended March 31, down from $8.2 billion, or 94 cents per share, a year earlier. (Reporting by Mehnaz Yasmin in Bengaluru and Saeed Azhar in New York; Editing by Lananh Nguyen and Shinjini Ganguli)