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About ING DIRECT
ING Direct is a financial institution that offers retail banking, commercial banking, direct banking, asset management, investment banking and insurance services. ING stands for Internationale Nederlanden Grope or International Netherlands Group in English. Its vision is to lead U.S. citizens back to saving through modifying financial products. Their innovative Orange Savings Account as well as other products will allow you to see their vision and passion in action.
ING Direct is a part of the ninth largest financial services institution in the world that served over 50 countries with more than 60 million clients. It has been operating in America for more than a century now and they have over 11,000 employees that worked for ING companies.
The iconic Orange Lion on the logo of ING is a colorful play on the Dutch origins of the group under the House of Orange-Nassau. Just like other outstanding Anglo-Dutch banking conglomerates, the earliest roots of ING lie in banking houses which offered financial services to the Dutch/British East India Companies that carried on intercontinental trade across SE Asia, India and China in the 17th to 19th centuries.
ING Direct is the largest financial and baking services and insurance conglomerate by revenue in the world today. They have current gross receipts of over $77 billion per year. It is also the 12th largest corporation in the world by revenue according to Global Fortune 500. It has served more than 85 million individual as well as institutional clients as of 2009 in over 45 countries with workforce of 100,000 and over.
ING DIRECT launched its first direct banking operation
in Canada in 1997. Since then, it has successfully launched operations
in Spain, France, Italy, USA, UK, Germany and Austria. ING DIRECT Australia
was launched in August 1999. |
