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5 March 2015

ING Direct Australia helps to rediscover lifelong dreams

At the launch of the Think Forward strategy last year, our CEO Ralph Hamers explained the ING’s new purpose of empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and business. All sustainable progress is driven by people with the imagination and determination to improve their future and the futures of those around them and – as Ralph said – banking is about empowering people and organisations to realise their own vision for a better future – however modest or grand.

4 March 2015 | Press release

ING completes divestment of Voya shares for total proceeds of USD 2 billion

ING Group today announced the pricing for the sale of 45.6 million shares of common stock of Voya Financial Inc. that was announced on 3 March 2015. In the public offering ING Group has sold approximately 32 million Voya shares at a price of USD 44.20 per share.

3 March 2015 | Press release

ING to sell remaining stake in Voya Financial

ING announced today it agreed to sell shares of common stock of Voya Financial, Inc. in an underwritten public offering. In addition, ING Group has entered into a share repurchase agreement with Voya under which Voya will repurchase USD 600 million of its shares of common stock from ING Group. The price per share payable by Voya as part of the share repurchase will be the same as the price paid by the underwriters to ING Group as part of the underwritten offering.

13 February 2015

Time to go Dutch on Valentine’s Day?

This morning Ian Bright, Senior Economist at ING, was interviewed by CNBC about ‘Money Secrets’ part of our recent International Survey on Savings 2015.

11 February 2015 | Press release, Financial, Strategy

ING Bank posts 2014 underlying net profit of EUR 3,424 million; Dividends reinstated with EUR 0.12 per ordinary share

“2014 was an important and successful year for ING,” said Ralph Hamers, CEO of ING Group. “We launched our ‘Think Forward’ strategy, repaid the Dutch State ahead of schedule and moved closer to completing our restructuring plan. We are proud to have solidified our repositioning as a leading European bank and pleased to see that both NN Group and Voya are thriving as standalone companies. Today, I am delighted to announce the reinstatement of dividend payments on ordinary shares with a proposed cash dividend of EUR 0.12 per share.”

11 February 2015 | Banking, Strategy

ING Bank* underlying net profit rises 8.5% to EUR 3,424 million

ING Bank posted a strong set of full-year 2014 results. Higher interest results, strict cost control and lower risk costs drove the underlying net profit to EUR 3,424 million, or 8.5% higher than in 2013.

10 February 2015 | Banking

Former ING CEO Jaap van Rijn passes away

Former ING CEO Jaap van Rijn passed away

9 February 2015

Ready for Brexit?

Our economist James Knightley analysed the potential effects on the UK economy of holding a referendum on exiting the European Union (Brexit).

29 January 2015

ING's interviews at 2015 World Economic Forum

Last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ING’s CEO Ralph Hamers was interviewed by CNBC and Fox news in which he talks about ING’s strategy, the economic environment, the ECB’s decision on quantitative easing and its impact as well as recent developments in digitisation of banking services in relation to changing customer behaviour.

22 January 2015 | Sustainability

ING launches ING Values

Only by acting with professionalism and integrity can we maintain our stakeholders’ confidence and preserve our company’s reputation. That’s why ING launched new ING Values.

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