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Harmonisation across the Pan-European Payments Landscape

Evelien Witlox, Global Head of Payments, ING, speaks during EBAday 2020 about the Pan European Payments Landscape. We learn about the need for harmonisation across countries, whether there a case to be made for collectively joining forces to manage them more efficiently and how ING balances the vast number of regulatory initiatives with their ambition to stay innovative.

25 November 2020

News/payments

ING-owned Payvision branded as the "Netherlands Wirecard" by EFRI

The European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI) is seeking €7 million in restitution for victims of boiler room scams which were processed by ING-owned Payvision, a company the Viennese not-for-profit brands as the "Netherlands Wirecard".

10 November 2020

Company announcement/people

ING to appoint Ljiljana Čortan as chief risk officer

ING announced today that Ljiljana Čortan will be appointed chief risk officer of ING. Ljiljana Čortan until recently served as chief risk officer of HypoVereinsbank – UniCredit Bank (HVB) in Germany.

06 November 2020

News/people

ING to shed 1000 jobs; reins in digital banking ambitions

ING is shelving plans to develop a unified digital experience for customers in overseas markets, taking a €140 million hit in capitalised software costs against the programme.

05 November 2020

News/retail

EBAday 2020: Open Banking – where do we go from here?

Recent research from ING suggested that consumers remain suspicious and uninformed about open banking despite it now being firmly embedded into the financial services ecosystem across parts of Europe and elsewhere.

16 October 2020

Finextra TV/payments

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