The Dutch banking giant ING Groep N. V. headquartered its U. S. internet banking unit, ING Direct, in Wilmington.

Barclays and ING Direct have very large and prominent locations located along the waterfront of the Christina River.

Examples include Thomas H. Bailey, founder and former chairman of Janus Capital Group, Geoff Beattie, president of The Woodbridge Company and chairman of CTVglobemedia, George Cope, president and CEO of Bell Canada Enterprise, Edward Rogers III, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications, and former president of Rogers Cable, Arkadi Kuhlmann, chairman of ING Direct, Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of US Gold Corporation, Minera Andes and the founder, chairman and former CEO of Goldcorp Inc., John Thompson, former chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank and chancellor of Western, Prem Watsa, chairman, CEO of Fairfax Financial, Lee Seng Wee, former chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Galen Weston, chairman and president of George Weston Limited.

To expanding its retail banking business overseas, rather than create a branch network, it used the direct banking business model it had develop with NMB Postbank to launch an overseas direct banking businesses called ING Direct.

This resulted in divestiture of a number of businesses around the world, which included insurance businesses in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the ING Direct unit in the US.

ING Direct is the Group's brand for a branchless direct bank with operations in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

ING Direct Italy is currently opening its own " bank shops " in the major towns, where customers can operate services on usual web channels, assisted or not by branch operators, and use advanced teller machines for cash and check transactions.

ING's history in Canada goes back to 1997 when it founded ING Direct Canada.

As recently as July 2011, ING Direct Canada had over 1. 7 million clients, employed over 900 people and had over US $ 37. 6 billion in assets.

ING Direct Canada has five ' Save Your Money Cafés ' in the major cities of Toronto, Montréal, Calgary and Vancouver.

Recently, ING Direct Canada announced the closure of their bilingual ( French & English ) office located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,

ING Direct Canada is a member of the Canadian Bankers Association ( CBA ) and registered member with the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation ( CDIC ), a federal agency insuring deposits of all Canada's chartered banks.

ING Direct Canada operates as Banking Institution # 614, Transit # 00152.

ING Group still operates ING Bank of Canada, also known as ING Direct Canada.

On August 29, 2012, Scotiabank announced that it would acquire ING Direct Canada for $ 3. 13 billion dollars.

After completion of sale a gradual transfer will see the ING Direct Canada name disappear from the Canadian banking sector, but it will not impact the day to day business operations.

ING Direct was founded in 2000, with its headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.

ING Direct is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ).

In September 2007, ING Direct acquired 104, 000 customers and FDIC insured assets from a failed virtual bank NetBank.

Two months later, ING Direct acquired online stock broker Sharebuilder.

In June 2011, Capital One Financial Corporation purchased ING Direct USA from ING for US $ 9 billion (€ 6. 3 billion ).

On June 12, 2012, the U. S. Department of the Treasury ’ s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $ 619 million settlement with ING Bank N. V. to settle potential liability for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( IEEPA ) and the Trading with the Enemy Act ( TWEA ) and for violating New York state laws by illegally moving billions of dollars through the U. S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned Cuban and Iranian entities .. ING Bank ’ s settlement with OFAC is simultaneous with settlements with the U. S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, the Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and the New York County District Attorney ’ s Office.

Under the settlement agreement, ING Bank is required to conduct a review of, and to submit a report to OFAC regarding, its policies and procedures and their implementation, taking an appropriate risk-focused sampling of U. S. dollar payments to ensure that its OFAC compliance program is functioning effectively to detect, correct, and report any OFAC-sanctioned transactions that might occur.

The practice of removing and omitting such information was also used by other branches of ING Bank ’ s Wholesale Banking Division, including in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, in processing U. S. dollar payments and trade finance transactions through the United States.

Moreover, ING Bank ’ s Trade and Commodity Finance business at its Wholesale Banking branch in the Netherlands routed payments made on behalf of U. S .- sanctioned Cuban clients through other corporate clients to obscure the sanctioned clients ’ identities and its Romanian branch omitted details from a letter of credit involving a U. S. financial institution in order to finance the exportation of U. S .- origin goods to Iran.

* Kathleen Murphy-CEO, ING U. S. Wealth Management ; named to Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business List

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

These two aspectual forms are also referred to as BE + ING and HAVE + EN, respectively, which avoids what may be unfamiliar terminology.

It is now held by ING Group, which purchased Barings.

2008 was also the first year large Dutch international corporations ING Group and TNT NV sponsored the event.

* Liberty Elementary School is a Blue Ribbon Award winner ( 2000 – 2001 ) and semi-finalists ( 2004 ), New York State winner of International Reading Award and ING Unsung Heroes Award ( 2004 ) for Karne Andreasen's " Turn on to Reading " program.

The Dutch-registered Stichting INGKA Foundation is named after Ingvar Kamprad ( i. e. ING + KA ) who owns INGKA Holding, the parent company for all IKEA stores.

At a cost of £ 460 million, Chester City Council and developers ING hope to create a new quarter for Chester.

Tenants included ING Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, Fidelity International, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority and the Financial Times.

Potential buyers included British Land, Land Securities, Prudential, ING and the Abu Dhabi royal family.

Some customers were dissatisfied after ING lowered the exceptional high rate the collapsed Kaupthing was previously paying.

This savings account is Canada's second high-interest savings account with no fees and unlimited access ( ING Direct Canada was the first to offer such an account ) but Coast Capital Savings offers a lower rate than competitors such as ING Direct or ICICI Bank.

Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment, the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants.

Direct U. S. investment in Senegal remains about U. S .$ 38 million, mainly in petroleum marketing, pharmaceuticals manufacturing, chemicals, and banking.

This means, as the U. S. Dollar accounted for 80 percent in the Thai basket of currencies, the Thai Baht was also depreciated further-making Thailand's export even more competitive and making the country more attractive to Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ), especially from Japan whose national currency appreciated considerably since 1985.

In Canada, the term " death stars " was used to describe U. S. Direct Broadcast Satellites capable of broadcasting signals into Canada that were not regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

Direct U. S. aid accounted for 60 % of the Marshalls ' $ 90 million budget.

For Ku satellites in DBS ( Direct Broadcast Satellite ) service ( 12. 2-12. 7GHz in the U. S .) dishes much smaller than 1-meter can be used because those satellites are spaced 9 degrees apart.

The Township is easy to reach via the Midtown Direct line of New Jersey Transit, which is available in nearby Dover, Interstate 80, U. S. Route 46, and Route 10.

Melville is home to the U. S. headquarters of several national and international corporations, including Hain Celestial, Arrow Electronics, Chyron, MSC Industrial Direct, Nikon Corporation, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Allion Healthcare, the Italian-food chain Sbarro, the medical and dental supply distributor Henry Schein, Bouchard Transportation and global staffing giant Adecco ( US Headquarters ).

Direct elections were mostly held only for the U. S. House of Representatives and state legislatures, although what specific bodies were elected by the electorate varied from state to state.

On May 3, 2003, a detachment of U. S. Army Special Forces led by United States Navy Commander David Beckett and eight nuclear experts from the United States Department of Defense's Direct Support Team conducted a survey of the facility, finding the looting, similar to the situation in the nearby Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center.

DVB-S is used in both Multiple Channel Per Carrier ( MCPC ) and Single channel per carrier modes for Broadcast Network feeds as well as for Direct Broadcast Satellite services like Sky ( UK & Ireland ) via Astra in Europe, Dish Network and Globecast in the U. S. and Bell TV in Canada.

* Federal Direct Consolidation Loans Information Center of the U. S. Government

* Direct Commercial Sales, a method of arms sale in the U. S. by which a company directly negotiates with its buyer

Direct Hits is the first U. K. compilation album released by The Who.

Direct Hits shares a few songs with the earlier U. S. compilation album Magic Bus: The Who on Tour, but is otherwise unrelated to that release.

OSINT is, as of 2005, defined by the U. S. Office of Management and Budget under the category of " Forces And Direct Support " and specifically for the DoD under Commercial Code M320 as

Madam Walker was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in 1992, the National Women's Hall of Fame, in Seneca Falls, New York, the National Cosmetology Hall of Fame and the National Direct Sales Hall of Fame.

In 2003, a powerful 2. 0-litre Turbocharged Direct Injection ( TDI ) diesel engine producing was added ( making the Passat the only mid-sized diesel powered car sold in the U. S .).

Thanks to the efforts of Oregon Populist Party State Representative William S. U ' Ren and his Direct Legislation League, voters in Oregon overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in 1902 that created the initiative and referendum processes for citizens to directly introduce or approve proposed laws or amendments to the state constitution, making Oregon the first state to adopt such a system.

In January 2008, the company was selected by the U. S. Department of the Treasury as the financial agent for its Direct Express debit-card program.

In recent years, it formed philanthropic and charitable partnerships with the following organizations: UNICEF, American Red Cross, U. S. President ’ s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Stop TB Partnership, Global Business Coalition on Health ( GBCHealth ), Americares, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Project Hope, Direct Relief International Accordia Global Health Foundation, Columbia University, and University of Virginia.

In 1982, Morin received a Direct Commission in the U. S. Naval Reserve.