Once upon a time, Joost sold second-hand mobile phones in Africa. It was a good business. But when he realised that he was only adding to a growing global e-waste problem, Joost turned his business model upside down.
Countless ING employees all over the globe head back to school this week to tell children how money works. The sooner they get the basics, the better.
There are seven and a half billion people on the planet, yet only 2.5 percent of the world’s water is fresh. Millions continue to have no access to drinking water and that scarcity is set to worsen with an increasing global population and climate change. All is not lost though. A new water report produced by ING shows how the circular economy could save 400 billion of cubic metres of water every year.
ING has reached an agreement for the sale of its loan to the Dakota Access pipeline. The sale follows a constructive dialogue between ING and representatives from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and has the full support of the Tribe.
For eight years, ING’s head of Quantitative Analytics Drona Kandhai has been teaching Computational Finance at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In between classes, he explains what ING can learn from students.
ING customers in Australia wanted it. ING in Australia has provided it. It’s Apple Pay, Apple's NFC payment system that lets users make purchases using an iOS device.
At the world’s biggest blockchain hackathon in the Netherlands last weekend, over 500 people from around the world showed what blockchains can potentially do.
In October 2016, ING announced the next steps in its transformation to a global digital bank. COO-CTO Roel Louwhoff is the person tasked with managing this transformation. In the transformation ‘war room’ at ING’s head office in Amsterdam, he explains what is needed and why he’s confident of success.
For the past two years, travellers to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport will have undoubtedly noticed ING’s presence. From the huge billboard outside, to the many banners in the terminals, the ‘World, here I come’ campaign is scattered all over the airport.
In the first in a new quarterly series about unknown predictive economic indicators, macroeconomist Maarten Leen puts the spotlight on the Atlanta Fed Core Sticky CPI.
