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22 June 2012 | Banking

ING Dutch Day on Wall Street

The New York Stock Exchange was coloured orange on Thursday 21 June, as it was ING Dutch Day. The most visible part was the ringing of the Opening Bell for the trading day by a party of executives from Dutch companies, led by ING CEO Jan Hommen.

21 June 2012 | Sustainability

ING among signatories UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance

ING is amongst the founding signatories to the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance (UN PSI) that were launched on 19 June at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.

14 June 2012 | Banking

ING named ‘Best Investment Bank in the Netherlands’

Commercial Banking has been named 2012’s ‘Best Investment Bank in the Netherlands’ by top international finance magazine, Global Finance.

14 June 2012 | Banking

ING in Belgium: from follower to leader in savings

If you are Belgian and earning EUR 2000 per month net, chances are you saving EUR 330 each month. That’s a lot compared to Europeans from other countries. Belgians save around 16.5% of their gross disposable income — one of the highest in the eurozone.

14 June 2012 | Press release

ING CEO Jan Hommen to present at Goldman Sachs conference

Today, Jan Hommen, CEO of ING Group, will address the Goldman Sachs European Financials Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

12 June 2012 | Press release

ING Bank reaches agreement with US Authorities

ING Bank announced today that it has entered into a Settlement Agreement with U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Deferred Prosecution Agreements with the Department of Justice, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the District Attorney of the County of New York (together the “U.S. Authorities”) in relation to the investigation by those agencies into compliance with U.S. economic sanctions and U.S. dollar payment practices until 2007.

8 June 2012 | Banking

Jan Hommen attends the 11th Beijing Mayor Advisory Council Meeting

ING Group CEO Jan Hommen was one of the keynote presenters at the 11th annual meeting of the International Business Leaders Advisory Council for the Mayor of Beijing (IBLAC), held in late May in Beijing, China.

7 June 2012 | Press release

Overwhelming support across Europe for financial education to be taught at school

Results from the ING International Survey (IIS) on financial competence show overwhelming support for financial education to be taught in schools, despite many saying they never received money lessons at school. Around 90% of more than 11,000 respondents in 11 countries in Europe think that financial education should be taught at schools.

6 June 2012 | Economics

ING publishes report on how EMU break-up could be avoided

Chief economist of ING Mark Cliffe recently published the report ‘Roads to survival. How EMU break-up could be avoided’.

1 June 2012 | Press release

ING and trade unions reach agreement in principle on pension scheme for employees in The Netherlands

ING announced today that it has reached an agreement in principle in the negotiations with the trade unions about a new pension scheme for employees in The Netherlands of ING Bank, WestlandUtrecht Bank and Insurance/IM, including Nationale-Nederlanden and ING Investment Management.

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