William Connelly to host ING Benelux Conference in London

William Connelly, CEO of ING Commercial Banking, will present ING's Commercial Banking strategy at the ING Benelux Conference hosted in London later today. The conference, hosted by ING for the tenth consecutive time, brings together ING corporate clients with institutional investors.

In his presentation, Mr Connelly will discuss the strength of ING's Commercial Banking business emanating from having a strong, Europe-focused Bank with a global reach and a consistent focus on supporting our clients' growth with a comprehensive product offering. He will elaborate on ING's measures to ensure seamless cross border solutions and a harmonised client service model across geographies to support future growth of ING's Commercial Banking business.

Mr Connelly will discuss in more detail ING's specialised financing capabilities which is based on strong industry knowledge to support its clients. This expertise has been built up in a period of more than twenty years leading to a top-10 global position and ING will continue to invest in this high return generating business to foster further growth.

Today's presentation, "Consistently profitable Commercial Bank," by William Connelly, can be viewed on SlideShare of downloaded via www.ing.com.

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