ING Groep N.V.

ING Groep N.V., a financial services company, provides banking, investment, life insurance, and retirement services worldwide. The company offers wealth accumulation, savings, and mortgage products and services to individuals, and small-and medium-sized businesses, as well as a range of banking products through independent banking agents; and credit products through agents, brokers, and vendors. It provides current account services and payments systems, such as savings accounts, mortgage loans, consumer loans, credit card services, investment products, and life and non-life insurance products, as well as asset management services. The company also provides wealth management services to high net worth individuals.

In addition, it offers various financial products, such as mutual funds, e-brokerage, payment accounts, and pensions; and lending, payments and cash management, structured finance, leasing and commercial finance, and financial markets products and services. Further, the company offers life insurance, investments, and retirement services for retail customers; a range of traditional, unit-linked, and variable annuity policies written for individual and group customers; mandatory and voluntary pension funds; fire, motor, disability, transport, and third party liability insurance for individual and commercial/group clients; and disability insurance products and complementary services for employers and self-employed professionals, such as dentists, general practitioners, and lawyers, as well as manages equity, fixed income, and structured investments for institutional investors and private label investment funds. As of December 31, 2009, ING Groep N.V. had approximately 250 retail banking branches in the Netherlands; 800 in Belgium; 430 in Poland/central Europe; and 460 in Asia. ING Groep N.V. was founded in 1991 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.