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ING Global Head of Fintech's outlook for real-time payments post pandemic

Olivier Guillaumond, Global Head of Fintech, ING, gives his View From Sibos on the impact of Covid on real-time payments, how the pace of technological change will push digitalisation forward and how the rise in consumer demand for new digital services will encourage banks and fintechs to work together more to innovate and disrupt the market with fresh ideas.

09 October 2020

Company announcement/sustainable

ING publishes second progress report on climate alignment

ING today published its second progress report on Terra, ING’s approach to steer its €600 billion lending book in line with the well-below two-degree climate goal of the Paris Agreement.

08 October 2020

News/retail

Consumers remain suspicious about open banking

An ING survey into consumer attitudes to open banking has exposed one of the glaring weaknesses of such polling: What we say and what we are actually prepared to do when it comes to sharing personal data are two distinct things.

06 October 2020

News/people

ING shakes up innovation office; Legrand steps aside

ING is to combine all of its disparate innovation programmes into a single dedicated unit, ING Neo, reporting directly to chief executive officer Steven van Rijswijk.

01 October 2020

Company announcement/wholesale

ING partners genesis to streamline credit and political risk insurance

ING is pleased to announce its partnership with genesis, the Low Code Application Platform for financial markets, to launch the Credit Insurance Application (CIA), a deal-flow and portfolio application which will transform the management of credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) globally.

27 July 2020

Company announcement/markets

ING moves 45 financial markets jobs in London to Amsterdam because of Brexit

As a result of Brexit, ING is required to relocate a subset of Financial Markets (FM) trading activities from London to a EU27 country.

23 July 2020

News/people

Yolt names Nicolas Weng Kan CEO

ING-backed account aggregation platform Yolt has appointed former Google Compare and Confused.com chief Nicolas Weng Kan CEO.

10 July 2020

Company announcement/crypto

ING joins Global Digital Finance

Global Digital Finance (GDF), a leading industry association advocating and accelerating the adoption of digital assets, has today announced that global banking giant and blockchain/DLT innovation leader ING has assumed a seat on the GDF Advisory Council and become Co-chair of its Custody Working Group.

09 July 2020

News/crime

Dutch banks to create AML transaction monitoring utility

Five Dutch banks have joined forces to create a transaction monitoring utility in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

09 July 2020

Company announcement/payments

ING Germany to offer business loans to SMEs trading on Amazon

ING is the first bank in Germany to cooperate with Amazon in offering loans to eligible sellers – mainly small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) – through Amazon’s seller portal.

01 July 2020

News/retail

ING Belgium adds subscription management tool to app

ING Belgium has teamed up with Sweden's Minna Technologies to let the bank's customers manage their subscription services from within its app.

29 June 2020

Company announcement/retail

ING Direct signs with natural language AI outfit Expert Systems

Expert System today announced that ING has chosen to extend AI-based automation benefits across the organization and improve back office operations.

26 June 2020

Company announcement/people

ING appoints insider as new CEO

ING announced today that Steven van Rijswijk, currently member of the Executive Board and chief risk officer of ING, will succeed Ralph Hamers as CEO and chairman of the Executive Board.

19 June 2020

News/payments

ING spin out Cobase welcomes Nordea and Crédit Agricole CIB as new shareholders

ING spin-out Cobase, a provider of multi-bank treasury management services, has raised €10 million in funding from Nordea and Crédit Agricole CIB.

10 June 2020

News/crypto

US must look to ‘future proof’ the dollar with a CBDC

Accenture and the Digital Dollar Foundation have published a whitepaper laying out proposals for the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the US.

04 June 2020

Finextra TV/retail

6 ways Covid-19 is transforming Digital Finance

Teunis Brosens, Lead Economist for Digital Finance and Regulation, ING, & Carlo Cocuzzo, Economist, Digital Finance, ING, speak to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV about how Covid19 is accelerating Digital Finance. We see shifts in the relationship between the public and private sector in finance, changes to global interconnectedness, the need for increased cybersecurity cooperation, an acceleration of digitisation, an increased focus on financial inclusion and shifting attitudes towards data.

13 May 2020

Company announcement/people

Andre Valkenburg named new CEO for Payvision

Andre Valkenburg has become the new chief executive officer of omnichannel payments provider Payvision as of 1 May.

07 May 2020

News/startups

ING Ventures leads £4m Countingup funding round

ING Ventures has led a £4 million financing round for Countingup, a UK startup that combines a business current account with a built-in accounting package.

07 May 2020

Company announcement/startups

Speechmatics secures place in the ING Labs Brussels 2020 cohort

Speechmatics, the UK leader in any-context speech recognition technology, today announced its place as one of the seven scale-up companies to be part of ING Labs Brussels.

06 May 2020

News/markets

ING and HSBC join £5.7 million funding round in TransFicc

Low latency trading and workflow outfit TransFicc has closed a series A investment round of £5.7 million led by Albion VC with participation from new investors ING and HSBC.

30 April 2020