ING Groep N.V. ( , ) (known as ING Group) is a financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management services. ING stands for Internationale Nederlanden Groep.
As of 2003, ING covers 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients in 50 countries with a workforce of over 115,000 people. It has offices in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, UK and United States. It owns ING Direct, a virtual bank with operations in Australia, Canada, India, Spain, UK, USA and elsewhere. In the 2007 Forbes Global 2000, ING was the tenth-largest company in the world.
ING's headquarters in Amsterdam is somewhat renowned as an autonomous building.
