As of 2009, ING Group covers 85 million private, corporate and institutional clients in over 40 countries with a workforce of over 125,000 people. It owns ING Direct, a virtual bank with operations in Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, UK, US and elsewhere. In the 2009 Forbes Global 2000, ING is the eighth-largest company in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ING_Group
Canada became the first profitable ING DIRECT in 2001, and that continues today. As of 2009 ING DIRECTCanada has over 1.6 million Clients, employs over 900 people and hasover $23 billion in assets. We are growing at a tremendous rate. Buteven more important than our own success is the fact that we have paidover $3.6 billion in interest to our Clients while collecting exactly$0 in fees and service charges.
http://www.ingdirect.ca/en/aboutus/whoweare/history/index.html
