ING Group

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ING Group N.V.
Type Public (Euronext: INGA, NYSE: ING)
Founded 1991
Headquarters Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Key people Michel Tilmant, Chairman of the Executive Board[1]
Cornelius Herkströter, Chairman of the Supervisory Board[2]
John Hele, Chief Financial Officer[3]
Industry Financial services
Products Banking
Insurance
Asset management
Revenue 76.587 billion (2007)
Operating income 11.043 billion (2007)
Net income 9.241 billion (2007)
Employees 115,218
Website www.ing.com
ING House, ING headquarters in Amsterdam
ING House, ING headquarters in Amsterdam

ING Groep N.V. (NYSEING, Euronext: INGA) (known as ING Group) is a financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management services. ING stands for Internationale Nederlanden Groep.

As of 2007, ING covers 75 million private, corporate and institutional clients in 50 countries with a workforce of over 120,000 people. It has offices in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, UK and United States. It owns ING Direct, a virtual bank with operations in Australia, Canada, Spain, UK, USA and elsewhere. In the 2008 Forbes Global 2000, ING was the ninth-largest company in the world.


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[edit] Advertising and sponsorship

ING's Canadian commercials feature Dutch actor Frederik de Groot. In Australia, they feature Scottish comedian Billy Connolly.

From 2007, ING became the title sponsor of the Renault Formula One team. This will continue until at least 2009. In November 2006, ING was announced as the naming rights sponsor of the Australian Grand Prix and Belgian Grand Prix in a three-year deal; The "ING Australian Grand Prix" and "2007 ING Belgian Grand Prix" will be the first of 2007 season. ING has also become sponsor of the Hungarian Grand Prix, making it the "ING Magyar Nagydíj".

In recent years, ING has been the title sponsor of the New York City Marathon and the San Francisco famous Bay to breaker. This sponsorship deal will continue until 2010.

[edit] Headquarters building

ING has a widely-admired headquarters building near Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. Designed by Roberto Meyer and Jeroen van Schooten, the light-infused building features loggias, patios, interior gardens and sweeping views from an unusually large percentage of the offices, but what most strikes passersby on the ringroad and metro is that since it is supported by tall (9 to 12 meters high) posts so that a rail or auto passenger looks under, not at it. It is also somewhat renowned as an autonomous building.

[edit] History

The company was created from the 1990 merger of Nationale-Nederlanden and NMB Postbank Groep.

[edit] Investigations into investment and business practices

Over the past several years, the ING Group has come under scrutiny over the ethics of some of their business practices. In October of 2005, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the leading private-sector provider of financial regulatory services in the United States, ordered ING Funds Distributor (IFD) to pay fines of $1.5 million for permitting improper market timing in ING funds and related violations, $1.4 million in restitution to affected mutual funds, and a $25,000 fine and 30-day supervisory suspension on an IFD supervisor.[4]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Michel Tilmant, ING. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
  2. ^ Cor Herkströter, ING. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
  3. ^ John Hele, ING. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
  4. ^ US PR Newswire, “NASD Orders ING Funds Distributor to Pay $1.5 Million Fine, $1.4 Million in Restitution for Permitting Improper Market Timing; NASD Also Sanctions ING Funds Distributor Supervisor,” October 3, 2005

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