American Banker

ING Direct To Offer Physical Checkbooks

For the first time in its 11-year history, ING Direct is sending customers checkbooks. But the checks are useless until they pass a gauntlet of security measures the online bank designed. ING Direct's ...
Time

ING Direct’s Man on a Mission

Arkadi Kuhlmann is annoyed by banks. He thinks that it’s ridiculous for customers to pay so many fees. That it isn’t too much to ask for a real person to pick up the phone when you call the 800 number ...
Yahoo! Sports

Capital One Closes ING Direct Deal

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Financial Planning

Why Fed Is Bound to Bless Capital One's Deal for ING Direct

Prediction: the Federal Reserve Board will let Capital One Financial Corp. buy ING Direct USA. Why? Because blocking it would doom every financial firm larger than Capital One to a stagnant future and ...
Financial Planning

ING Direct Jumps Into Fund Business

ING DIRECT, an online broker/dealer subsidiary of the ING Group, is venturing into the fund business with the launch of a portfolio of six mutual funds, the company announced today. The funds will be ...
Time

Capital One Buys ING Direct, and Customers Start to Freak Out

Please don’t change ING Direct. Customers have stuck with the online bank (and put up with the company’s blinding trademark bright orange colors) because setting up an account is easy, the interface ...
Finance & Commerce

Anxiety for ING Direct workers in St. Cloud

The $9 billion buyout of ING Direct by Capital One Financial may mean more credit card ads on the airwaves, but for the 546 employees who work in ING Direct’s downtown St. Cloud office, it means ...
Fox Business

Barclays shows retail intent with ING Direct deal

LONDON – Barclays' new chief executive set the course firmly towards retail banking on Tuesday with his first deal since replacing Bob Diamond - the takeover of ING's British savings and loan business ...
Lifehacker

Interest-bearing checking accounts at ING Direct

Our favorite online high-yield savings bank, ING Direct, now offers a checking account product called "Electric Orange" that earns interest, has no minimum balance, and lets you get your cash from ...
PE Hub

ING Direct USA Likely Too Big For PE

The sale of ING Direct USA is getting a lot of press. Unfortunately, PE firms will probably not be interested in the online bank. ING Group has confirmed that it is looking to sell the U.S. online ...
ZDNet

ING Direct: No secure pipe for Aussie bankers

ING Direct Australia says it will not follow its US arm and give free security software to its local customers. ING Direct USA has promised to issue its customers free security software to protect ...