ING

at a glance

ING is a leading European universal bank. Their more than 60,000 employees serve around 37 million customers, corporate clients, and financial institutions in over 40 countries.

Our purpose

ING’s purpose - empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business - represents their belief in people’s potential. They don’t judge, coach, or tell people how to live their lives. However big or small, modest or grand, ING empowers people and businesses to realise their own vision for a better future.

Our history

ING - the Internationale Nederlanden Groep - was created in 1991 with the merger of Dutch insurer Nationale-Nederlanden and national postal bank NMB Postbank. ING's oldest businesses can be traced back to 1762 when John and Francis Baring started Barings Bank in London. ING took over Barings in 1995 after the 200-year-old investment bank was bankrupted by derivatives trader Nick Leeson. ING went through a lot of mergers. However, through all these mergers the orange lion survived and remains the symbol of ING today.

Our operations

ING’s products include savings, payments, investments, loans, and mortgages in most of their retail markets. For their Wholesale Banking clients, ING provides specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management, and trade and treasury services. Customer experience is what differentiates them and they’re continuously innovating to improve it. ING also partners with others to bring disruptive ideas to market faster.