ING direct

ING Group N.V. (NYSE: ING, Euronext: INGA) is a financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management services. INGis an abbreviation of Internationale Nederlanden Groep (International Netherlands Group).As of 2009, ING Group covers 85 million private, corporate and institutional clients in over 40 countries with a workforce of over 125,000 people. It has offices inAustralia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia,Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey,Thailand, UK and United States. It owns ING Direct, a virtual bank with operations in Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain, UK, USA and elsewhere. In the 2008Forbes Global 2000, ING was the ninth-largest company in the world.