BHF Bank , full name Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank was a German bank formed in 1970 by merger between the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and Frankfurter Bank , both founded in the 1850s. It was initially named Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft – Frankfurter Bank ( lit. ' Trade Company of Berlin – Bank of Frankfurt ' ) and was rebranded BHF Bank in 1975.
45-518: BHF Bank was among the largest commercial banks in Germany, but experienced relative decline under successive ownership of ING Group and Sal. Oppenheim . It was eventually acquired by Paris-based Oddo & Cie which subsequently renamed itself ODDO BHF . BHF Bank was formed on 1 September 1970 (with retroactive effect at 1 January 1970) from the merger of the Frankfurter Bank, founded in 1854, and
90-569: A consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank . In 2020, ING had 53.2 million clients in more than 40 countries. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index . The long-term debt for the company as of December 2019 is €150 billion. ING is an abbreviation for Internationale Nederlanden Groep ( lit. ' International Netherlands Group ' ). The orange lion on ING's logo alludes to
135-445: A range of products, from cash management to corporate finance. Elsewhere, it takes a more selective approach to clients and products. ING Wholesale Banking was strengthened in 1995, when ING took over Barings Bank . This acquisition increased the brand recognition of ING around the world and strengthened its Wholesale Banking presence in the emerging markets. Following the acquisition and up until 2004, ING's investment banking division
180-561: A top position in the foreign exchange market. In 1995, the bank went public, changing from a partnership to a corporation . From 1999 to 2004, it was bought by the Dutch ING Group and renamed, in 2002, the ING BHF-Bank. In the same year, it was delisted; its remaining shareholders were squeezed out . In 2004, ING BHF-Bank was split. The majority of the bank's business operations, offices, and equity shareholdings were integrated into
225-401: Is a division of ING Bank (Australia) Limited. ING-DiBa is Germany's third biggest bank by the number of customers (c. 9 million). In 2016, the bank reported total assets of €158 billion and had around 3,900 employees. ING bought 49% of Allgemeine Deutsche Direktbank AG in 1998, which as of 1989 traded as DiBa. It acquired a further 21% of the company in 2002 and the remainder by 2003. By 2007,
270-528: Is headed jointly by Maurits Duynstee (Head of Corporate Finance, Continental Western Europe) and Pierre Chabrelie (Head of Corporate Finance, UK and CEE). ING Corporate Finance has a strong presence in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe. ING's insurance business operates throughout America, Asia and Europe. In 2009, ING announced plans to separate its insurance business from its main banking operations through two IPO's, one for Europe and Asia and another one for
315-566: Is one of the biggest banks in the world, and consistently ranks among the largest banks globally . ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks , a co-operative consortium of 11 prominent European banks. Since the creation in 2012, ING Bank is a member in the list of global systemically important banks . It has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as
360-441: Is the new name for ING Commercial Banking as of 20 January 2016. The new name better reflects the large corporate and institutional, international offering that makes up the vast majority of ING WB's business. ING's Corporate Finance department advises businesses on important corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, share buy-backs and management buy-outs. The division
405-529: The Nationale-Nederlanden insurance company. Nationale-Nederlanden expanded significantly during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1881, the Dutch government created the Rijkspostspaarbank , a postal savings system to encourage workers to start saving. Four decades later, they added Postcheque and Girodienst services allowing working families to make payments via post offices. Separately in 1927,
450-708: The Silesian Bank 's majority shareholder . In 2001 Bank Śląski merged with ING Bank N.V. Branch in Warsaw . Since then, the bank is operating under the name of ING Bank Śląski . ING offers branchless banking with operations in Australia, Italy, Spain, Germany and Austria. It offers services over the counter, web, phone, ATM or by mail. The service concentrates on simple interest-bearing savings accounts for retail customers. Originally created as ING Direct , these branches were renamed to ING between 2017 and 2019. ING in Australia
495-604: The Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft; founded in 1856. Also in 1970, the bank's high-rise head office [ de ] , initially commissioned by Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and designed by architect Sep Ruf , was inaugurated, by then the highest building in Frankfurt. In 1975, the bank was renamed to BHF Bank. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, it was in the top three to five investment banks in West Germany and had
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#1733092319641540-541: The Dutch Government. The plan supplied €10 billion (US$ 13.5 billion) to the operation, in exchange for securities and veto rights on major operational changes and investments. The European Commission also required ING to divest itself of its insurance and investment management operations by the end of 2013 as a condition of approving the state aid. In December 2009, ING raised €7.3 billion through share issues, and repurchased securities representing half of
585-553: The Dutch government initiated a re-organization of Dutch banks which resulted in the creation of the Nederlandsche Middenstands Bank (NMB) . NMB provided retail banking services in the Netherlands and abroad. In 1986, post office banking services were privatized as Postbank N.V. and three years later it would merge with NMB bank to form NMB Postbank Groep . In 1991, the banking business of NMB Postbank Groep and
630-867: The EU demanded changes to the company structure, including the sale of insurance businesses in Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and ING Direct units in the US, Canada and the UK. This included the sale of the ING Direct US operations to Capital One , ING Direct Canada to Scotiabank (d/b/a Tangerine ) and the ING Direct UK operations to Barclays bank in 2012. The spun-off insurance businesses in North America were renamed Voya Financial in 2014. In April 2016, ING sold
675-829: The European Commission in 2012. In July 2011, ING sold all its Latin American insurance operations to the Colombian insurance company Grupo Sura for US$ 3.85 billion, excluding ING's 36 percent holding in Brazilian insurer SulAmérica Seguros , which was sold at a later date. The actions were in line with EU demands to split the Group's banking and insurance operations as a condition of Dutch state aid. In 2013, ING reduced its stake in SulAmérica Seguros by 7.2%. On 12 June 2012,
720-673: The Group's shares and has thus become BHF-BANK's indirect sole shareholder. In April 2017, the company was renamed ODDO BHF. This bank and insurance -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . ING Group The ING Group ( Dutch : ING Groep ) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam . Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale banking, private banking, asset management, and insurance services. With total assets of US$ 967.8 billion, it
765-499: The Netherlands of 1845") was founded. It grew to be the leading Dutch insurance company with branches outside the Netherlands (139 the world over by 1900). It later changed its name to "De Nederlanden van 1845". Two decades later, in 1863, the life insurance company Nationale Levensverzekerings Bank ("National Life Insurance Bank") was founded in Rotterdam. These two insurance companies made multiple acquisitions, and in 1963 merged to form
810-642: The Netherlands, ING is the largest retail bank by market share, holding 40% of current account deposits, and by total assets. ING is followed by Rabobank (30%), ABN AMRO (20%), and others (10%). ING Belgium is the Belgian subsidiary of ING Group. The bank was formerly known as Bank Brussel Lambert (BBL) which became part of ING Group in 1998. It provides retail and commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in Belgium, together with related financial products such as insurance and asset management. BBL
855-544: The Netherlands, in processing US dollar payments and trade finance transactions through the United States. In addition, ING Bank's senior management in France authorised, 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
900-687: The Netherlands. NN Group is headquartered in The Hague , its office in Rotterdam is located in the skyscraper Gebouw Delftse Poort , which was the tallest skyscraper in the Netherlands until 2009. Aside from these two offices, the company has an office in Ede (former RVS) but no other main offices in the Netherlands, instead NN mainly relies on independent intermediaries for selling insurance. On 23 December 2016, NN Group reached an agreement to acquire competitor Delta Lloyd Group for 2.5 billion euro. NN has completed
945-770: The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a US$ 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 settled at
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#1733092319641990-454: The US. ING Bank's Trade and Commodity Finance business at its Wholesale Banking branch in the Netherlands routed payments made on behalf of US-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 US financial institution to finance the exportation of US-origin goods to Iran. Other notable activities: In 2013, ING U.S.
1035-482: The US. The EuroAsia IPO has been delayed while the US IPO is supposed to be completed by the end of 2012. Analysts estimate that the insurance arm is worth up to €16 billion. As of February 2009, ING Canada (the insurance arm) is no longer a subsidiary of ING Group. ING Group's 70% equity interest was spun off for US$ 2.2 billion. The company (which has an 11% share of Canada's property and casualty insurance market)
1080-565: The acquisition of ReliaStar and Aetna 's Financial Services unit. It also acquired the Polish Bank Śląski and Mexican insurance company Seguros Comercial América . The 1995 purchase of Barings Bank for one pound after its dramatic failure led to a boost in the company's investment banking business. Expanding its retail banking business overseas, ING used the direct banking business model it had developed with NMB Postbank to launch direct banking in other countries. The first of these
1125-423: The bank was negligent in preventing money laundering. Between 2010 and 2016, clients misused accounts at ING to launder hundreds of millions of euros. In February 2018, ING bought fintech company Payvision founded by Rudolf Booker for 350 million. As of 2022, ING operates in the following countries: Following the separation of ING Group into ING Bank and ING Insurance, the head office of ING Bank and ING Group
1170-419: The business district of Zuidas in Amsterdam , Netherlands from 2012 to 2014. It was designed by Roberto Meyer and Jeroen van Schooten ( Meyer en Van Schooten [ nl ] ) and was officially opened on 16 September 2002 by then Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands . In October 2008, in a move to increase its core Tier 1 capital ratio above 8%, ING Group accepted a capital injection plan from
1215-653: The company also offers some banking products such as mortgages . During the financial crisis of 2007–2008 , ING Group received financial support from the Dutch State. As part of the support deal, ING Group was mandated to split off ING Direct USA and all insurance and asset management activities. In 2013, a new company, NN Group , was formed, which became the parent of the European and Japan insurance and asset management activities of ING Group, for example including Nationale-Nederlanden and NN Investment Partners. In 2014, NN Group
1260-684: The company was trading under the name ING-DiBa. In November 2018, the bank changed its brand name to ING. Founded in 2001, ING in Italy has around 1.3 million customers. It 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. Operates exclusively through mobile app. ING has two offices in Taguig, Metro Manila; World Plaza Building and Arthaland Century Pacific Tower. Mobile system started in 2019 prior to
1305-456: The group's Dutch origins. ING Group traces its roots to two major insurance companies in the Netherlands and the banking services of the Dutch government. In 1991, the insurance branch of Nationale-Nederlanden and the banking branch of "NMB Postbank Groep" merged. NMB stands for "Nederlandsche Middenstands Bank". In 1845, the fire insurance company Assurantie Maatschappij tegen Brandschade de Nederlanden van 1845 ("Fire Insurance Company of
1350-501: 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 used by other branches of ING Bank's Wholesale Banking Division, including in France, Belgium, and
1395-619: The insurance business of Nationale-Nederlanden were merged to create ING Group . Since the ING Group was founded, it has made many acquisitions: ING Group expanded its international business through several acquisitions through the 1990s including the Belgian bank Banque Bruxelles Lambert (BBL) in 1998, US-based insurance company Equitable of Iowa and the commercial bank Furman Selz . It also acquired Frankfurt-based BHF-Bank in 1999, although it disposed of this later. It increased its Latin American and Asia Pacific insurance businesses with
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1440-572: The last shares in NN Group, making it exclusively a bank again. Since the largest settlement ever in the Netherlands by Vimpelcom in 2016, its house banker ING has also come under fire from the Public Prosecutor's Office. As a result of the Vimpelcom case, among others, it was announced in 2018 that ING reached a €775 million settlement with the Public Prosecutor's Office. According to the prosecution,
1485-548: The newly founded BHF-BANK Aktiengesellschaft, which was then acquired by the private bank Sal. Oppenheim as its sole shareholder. Sal. Oppenheim was taken over by the Deutsche Bank in 2010; BHF-BANK, which has always operated on a stand-alone basis, was put up for sale. In 2014, the bank pertained to BHF Kleinwort Benson Group, which was taken over by the French private bank Oddo et Cie . By mid-March 2016, Oddo et Cie acquired 100% of
1530-430: The pandemic, and offered one of the highest interest rates for the first few months of operations. It was one of the first banks that allowed check deposits via image capture using a mobile phone. ING Wholesale Banking provides banking and financial services to corporations and other institutions. The primary geographic focus of the wholesale banking business is the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and Romania, where it offers
1575-597: The sale of NN Investment Partners to Goldman Sachs for around EUR 1.7 billion in April 2022. Nationale-Nederlanden was formed in a merger in 1963 between the De Nederlanden van 1845 (The Netherlands of 1845) and the Nationale Levensverzekeringsbank (National Life Insurance Bank). The result of the merger, because of the strong domestic position of Nationale and the international experience of De Nederlanden,
1620-703: The same time with OFAC, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, the New York County District Attorney's Office and the Department of Justice's National Security Division and Justice's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section. Under the settlement agreement, ING Bank is required to conduct a review of, and to submit a report to the Treasury Department. Beginning in the 1990s, at
1665-519: The €10 billion in state aid. It repurchased another €2 billion in May 2011 (at a 50% premium), and looked to complete the repayments by May 2012. However, in January 2012 it cited eurozone conditions in putting the repayment timetable as 2012–2013 for the remaining €3 billion. The final tranche of €1.025 billion was paid on 7 November 2014, half a year ahead of the repayment schedule as agreed with
1710-579: Was called ING Barings, at which point it severed its ties with the Barings name and combined with ING's other wholesale banking operations. However, the top floor of ING's London office is still home to the famous Baring art collection, and the Baring Foundation, a charitable foundation. Wholesale Banking is divided into a number of sub-divisions, including Structured Finance, Financial Markets, Transaction Services and Corporate Finance. ING Wholesale Banking
1755-611: Was created in 1975 from the merger of Banque de Bruxelles and Banque Lambert . It made a 2021 profit of €948 million. 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. In 2013 ING announced intent to sell its stake in TMB bank. In Poland, the group in 1996 became
1800-628: Was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Sydney, offering banking online and via telephone. Its products in Australia include transaction accounts, savings accounts, credit card, business accounts, term deposits, home loans and superannuation. Company operations are regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission , Federal Government regulators. ING
1845-467: Was set up in Canada in 1997, and was soon followed in several other countries including the US, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Australia. In 2008, as part of the 2007–2008 financial crisis , ING Group, together with many other major banks in the Netherlands, took a capital injection from the Dutch Government. This support increased ING's capital ratio above 8%, however as a condition of Dutch state aid,
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1890-621: Was spun off in an initial public offering ahead of its planned rebranding as Voya Financial . As of 2014, ING Group is no longer the controlling shareholder of its former subsidiary, owning 47% of its shares. Separate to ING Direct businesses, ING offers retail banking services in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Turkey and Philippines. Non-retail private banking services are offered in Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and various countries in Asia and Central Europe. In
1935-600: Was the Amsterdamse Poort building. ING's corporate head office is situated in Cumulus Park, Amsterdam's innovation district in the south-east of the city. The five-storey building has a glass facade and is named after the Cedar tree, symbolising sustainability and growth. Its framework, with its layered branches and open spaces in between, is characteristic of a Cedar. ING House was the head office of NN Group and located in
1980-432: Was then renamed Intact Financial Corporation in May 2009. ING Group continued to operate ING Bank of Canada, also known as ING Direct Canada. Nationale-Nederlanden NN Group N.V. is the parent company of NN Investment Partners and Nationale-Nederlanden ( Dutch pronunciation: [nɑ(t)ɕoːˌnaːlə ˈneːdərlɑndə(n)] ). Nationale-Nederlanden is one of the largest insurance and asset management companies in
2025-522: Was to set the company up for the future. Emerging computerisation was embraced, and other innovation costs were jointly borne by the combined companies. Cooperation strengthened the companies’ experience in group insurance and allowed Nationale-Nederlanden to expand its territory. In 1991 NN merged, this time, with the NMB Postbank Groep , to form the ING Group . Aside from insurance and asset management,
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