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- ING Groep N.V. ING Groep N.V. is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam that provides retail and wholesale banking services to individuals, small businesses, corporations, financial institutions, and governments worldwide. The company offers a broad range of products and services including current and savings accounts, time deposits, residential mortgages, consumer and SME loans, payments, investments, insurance, and digital banking solutions in its retail segments across core markets such as the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as well as challenger markets including Germany, Australia, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, and Turkey; in wholesale banking, it delivers specialised lending, corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance, cash management, trade finance, and treasury services primarily focused on Europe with selective operations elsewhere. ING Groep N.V. operates in more than 100 countries with over 60,000 employees and serves approximately 53 million retail clients, tracing its origins to a 1991 merger of Nationale-Nederlanden insurance and NMB Postbank Groep banking operations with roots dating back to 1762. Recent developments include the completion in July 2025 of a 17.6% stake acquisition in Van Lanschot Kempen N.V., increasing its total ownership to 20.3%; ING Bank Śląski's acquisition of the remaining 55% stake in Goldman Sachs TFI in Poland for approximately €93 million; ongoing share buyback programmes totaling up to €2.5 billion announced in 2024 and additional distributions in 2025; executive changes such as the appointment of Ljiljana Čortan as head of Wholesale Banking effective in 2026 and Ida Lerner as chief financial officer; and an agreement reached in January 2025 to sell its Russian business to Global Development JSC, expected to close in the third quarter of 2025.