Koos Timmermans to present at Morgan Stanley Conference

Today, ING Bank Vice-Chairman Koos Timmermans will address the Morgan Stanley
European Financials Conference in London, United Kingdom.

In his presentation, Mr. Timmermans will address ING Bank´s strategic
positioning in a European banking environment facing far-reaching changes. ING
Bank has demonstrated its strong capabilities to generate capital and gather
deposits and has strong positions in attractive northern European home markets.
Mr Timmermans will show how ING will further build on these strengths by
focusing on customer centricity, working towards operational excellence and
further optimising the balance sheet.

Today´s presentation by Koos Timmermans can be downloaded at www.ing.com.

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ING PROFILE
ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin, offering banking,
investments, life insurance and retirement services to meet the needs of a
broad customer base. Going forward, we will concentrate on our position as an
international retail, direct and commercial bank, while creating an optimal
base for an independent future for our insurance and investment management
operations

IMPORTANT LEGAL INFORMATION
Certain of the statements contained herein are not historical facts,
including, without limitation, certain statements made of future expectations
and other forward-looking statements that are based on management´s current
views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially
from those expressed or implied in such statements. Actual results,
performance or events may differ materially from those in such statements due
to, without limitation: (1) changes in general economic conditions, in
particular economic conditions in ING´s core markets, (2) changes in
performance of financial markets, including developing markets, (3)
consequences of a potential (partial) break-up of the euro, (4) the
implementation of ING´s restructuring plan to separate banking and insurance
operations, (5) changes in the availability of, and costs associated with,
sources of liquidity such as interbank funding, as well as conditions in the
credit markets generally, including changes in borrower and counterparty
creditworthiness, (6) the frequency and severity of insured loss events, (7)
changes affecting mortality and morbidity levels and trends, (8) changes
affecting persistency levels, (9) changes affecting interest rate levels, (10)
changes affecting currency exchange rates, (11) changes in investor, customer
and policyholder behaviour, (12) changes in general competitive factors, (13)
changes in laws and regulations, (14) changes in the policies of governments
and/or regulatory authorities, (15) conclusions with regard to purchase
accounting assumptions and methodologies, (16) changes in ownership that could
affect the future availability to us of net operating loss, net capital and
built-in loss carry forwards, (17) changes in credit-ratings, (18) ING´s
ability to achieve projected operational synergies and (19) the other risk
factors and uncertainties detailed in the Risk Factors
section contained in the most recent annual report of ING Groep N.V.
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the date they are made, and, ING assumes no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information
or for any other reason.

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