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

* ING Investment Management, an asset management company that is part of the ING Group

* Nationale Nederlanden, an insurance company that is part of the ING Group ( shared HQ with Rotterdam )

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

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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.

* ING Group, a Dutch financial institution with operations worldwide

The ING Group () is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services.

ING is an abbreviation for ( English: International Netherlands Group ).

ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks.

ING Group traces its roots to two major Insurance companies in the Netherlands and the banking services of the Dutch government.

In 1991 the banking business of NMB Postbank and the insurance business of Nationale-Nederlanden were merged to create ING Group, after changes in regulation that allowed banks and insurance businesses to work together.

ING Group expanded its international business through a number of acquisitions through the 1990s including Belgium bank Banque Bruxelles Lambert ( BBL ) in 1998, US based insurance company Equitable of Iowa and the commercial bank Furman Selz.

In the late-2000s financial crisis ING Group, together with most other major banks in the Netherlands, took a capital injection from the Dutch Government in 2008 as part of its response to the crisis.

ING Group global locations

In October 2008, in a move to increase its core Tier 1 capital ratio above 8 %, ING Group accepted a capital injection plan from the Dutch Government.

As of February 2009, ING Canada ( the insurance arm ) is no longer a subsidiary of ING Group.

The sale was completed on June 16, 2011 with the CEO of ING Group at that time Jan Hommen saying the sale " marks a further important step in the restructuring of ING Group.

Seguros Comercial America ( now Seguros ING ) is Mexico's largest insurance company that results from the acquisition and reverse merger of Seguros America ( once owned by Banamex, Mexico's largest commercial bank ), and Seguros La Comercial under the management of its previous majority stockholder, Alfonso Romo Garza, who also acquired ASEMEX, a former state-owned underwriter that was the largest insurance company still held by the Mexican government under President Ernesto Zedillo's term, that is also part of the Seguros Comercial America legacy.

It was initially designed as a telescope control system, installed at the AAT at Siding Spring, the WHT at the ING on La Palma, and at the JCMT on Mauna Kea ( where it is still working in legacy systems ), but its role expanded to cover graphics, data access, interprocess communication, and the full range of functionality required to support a diverse range of interoperable applications.

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

ING Investment Management operates along regional lines with centers of expertise in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes or ING operates the William Herschel Telescope, Isaac Newton Telescope and Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope optical telescopes for the Science and Technology Facilities Council ( STFC ), the NWO and the IAC.

In February 2012, Capital One completed its acquisition of ING Bank, fsb, which operates as ING DIRECT in the United States.

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.

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

However it was the 1995 purchase of Barings Bank after its dramatic failure that saw of ING Groups investment banking business boosted significantly.

ING Commercial Bank will keep its operations in Mexico.

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.

Beginning in the 1990s, at the instruction of senior bank management, ING Bank employees in Curaçao began processing payments for ING Bank ’ s Cuban banking operations through its branch in Curaçao on behalf of Cuban customers without reference to the payments ’ origin.

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.

In addition, ING Bank ’ s senior management in France authorized, advised in the creation of, and ultimately provided fraudulent endorsement stamps for use by Cuban financial institutions in processing travelers check transactions, which disguised the involvement of Cuban banks in these transactions when they were processed 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.

In India, ING has a 44 % stake in ING Vysya Bank and is the Indian bank's largest shareholder.

In China, ING has a 17 % stake in the Bank of Beijing, the largest urban commercial bank in China.

In Thailand, ING has a 30 % stake in TMB Bank, a universal banking platform with a nationwide network.

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'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.

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.

* 2012-Scotiabank enters in an agreement to acquire ING Bank of Canada from NG Groep NV

* ING Bank of Canada

** ING Direct Canada