ING Group

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/ing-group

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the corporate structure?Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation
2. What is the consolidated assets?US$967.8 billion as of recent reporting
3. What is ING Group and where did it start?ING Group is a big bank from the Netherlands that helps people with money and insurance. It was created in 1991 when an insurance company and a banking group joined together.
4. Why does ING use an orange lion in its logo?The orange lion shows the company’s Dutch roots and links it to the House of Orange-Nassau, a famous Dutch family.

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