2013-03-22 10:49:56 -

ING announced today it has completed the sale of its 26% interest in ING Vysya
Life Insurance Company Ltd. to its joint venture partner Exide Industries Ltd.

The divestment, which does not have a material impact on ING Group's results, is
part of ING's earlier announced process to divest ING's insurance and investment
management businesses. The process to divest the other insurance and investment
management businesses in Asia, including ING's fund management operations in
India, is on-going. Any further announcements will be made if and when
appropriate. The divestment does not impact ING Vysya Bank, a publicly listed
Indian bank in which ING has a 44% stake.



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ING PROFILE
ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin, offering banking,
investments, life insurance and retirement services to meet the needs of a broad
customer base. Going forward, we will concentrate on our position as an
international retail, direct and commercial bank, while creating an optimal base
for an independent future for our insurance and investment management operations


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Certain of the statements contained herein are not historical facts, including,
without limitation, certain statements made of
future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on
management's current views and assumptions and
involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results, performance or events to differ materially
from those expressed or implied in such statements. Actual results, performance
or events may differ materially from those in such statements due to, without
limitation: (1) changes in general economic conditions, in particular economic
conditions
in ING's core markets, (2) changes in performance of financial markets,
including developing markets, (3) consequences of a
potential (partial) break-up of the euro, (4) the implementation of ING's
restructuring plan to separate banking and insurance
operations, (5) changes in the availability of, and costs associated with,
sources of liquidity such as interbank funding, as well as
conditions in the credit markets generally, including changes in borrower and
counterparty creditworthiness, (6) the frequency
and severity of insured loss events, (7) changes affecting mortality and
morbidity levels and trends, (8) changes affecting persistency levels, (9)
changes affecting interest rate levels, (10) changes affecting currency exchange
rates, (11) changes in investor, customer and policyholder behaviour, (12)
changes in general competitive factors, (13) changes in laws and regulations,
(14) changes in the policies of governments and/or regulatory authorities, (15)
conclusions with regard to purchase accounting assumptions and methodologies,
(16) changes in ownership that could affect the future availability to us of net
operating loss, net capital and built-in loss carry forwards, (17) changes in
credit-ratings, (18) ING's ability to achieve projected operational synergies
and (19) the other risks and uncertainties detailed in the Risk Factors section
contained in the most recent annual report of ING Groep N.V. Any forward-looking
statements made by or on behalf of ING speak only as of the date they are made,
and, ING assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information or for any other reason. This
document does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to
buy, any securities.





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