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11 February 2014 | Banking, Sustainability

ING Groenbank launches microfinance in Turkey

ING Groenbank (Green Bank) is offering a microfinance loan of € 30 million to ING Turkey via FI Lending. This marks the start of the bank’s microfinance services in Turkey.

6 February 2014 | Banking

Bank must be able to survive an extreme blow

Buffer of loss absorption capacity of 6% of a bank’s balance sheet total is a healthy target for an unweighted approach, said ING’s CRO Wilfred Nagel.

6 February 2014 | Press release

ING and Dutch State complete unwinding of lABF

ING announced today that, together with the Dutch State, it has completed the unwinding of the Illiquid Assets Back-Up Facility (IABF).

31 January 2014 | Sustainability

ING in 2014 Sustainability Yearbook

ING Group has been included in the 2014 edition of RobecoSAM’s Sustainability Yearbook. Want to know why?

10 January 2014 | Press release

ING to sell Taiwanese asset management business

ING announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell ING Investment Management (IM) Taiwan, its Taiwanese asset management business, to Japan-based Nomura Asset Management in partnership with a group of investors.

9 January 2014 | Press release

ING reaches agreement in principle to make Defined Benefits Pension Fund financially independent

ING announced today that it has reached an agreement in principle with the trade unions (CNV Dienstenbond, FNV Finance and De Unie), the ING Pension Fund, the Central Works Council and the Association of Retired ING Employees (VSI) to transfer all future funding and indexation obligations under ING's current closed Defined Benefit (DB) Pension Plan in the Netherlands to the ING Pension Fund.

9 January 2014 | Banking, Economics

Is Europe too obsessed with the ‘culture of credit’?

Find out what ING’s Ian Bright and others says about this topic in the third post of Debating Europe.

7 January 2014 | Press release

ING completes sale of stake in SulAmérica to Swiss Re

ING announced today that it has completed the sale to Swiss Re Group of 37.7 million units in Sul América S.A., as previously announced on 18 November 2013. The transaction further reduced ING’s stake in the Brazilian insurance holding to approximately 10%.