ING Launches Global Management Recruitment Programme in China

ING Launches Global Management Recruitment Programme in China

April 13, 2006

    BEIJING, April 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- ING today
announced the roll-out of its global management trainee
programme in China as the company steps up its efforts to
attract talented individuals to build up ING's
organizational capabilities and help support the growth of
ING's six businesses in the country.

    The announcement came as part of ING's partnership with
CCTV2 in "Absolute Challenge", a television
recruitment programme in which ING today short-listed three
finalists.  These three participants now go forward to the
next round of the competition which is to be decided in
July 2006, with the winner awarded an employment contract
with ING as a brand management trainee for its insurance
and asset management activities in China.  The ING
recruitment drive originally began in March 2006 and
attracted over 2,000 applications.

    ING Insurance Asia/Pacific's global management trainee
programme offers candidates the opportunity to participate
in a structured development programme which integrates job
assignments, workshops and in-class training.  The
programme has proved successful across the world and the
roll-out to China is aimed at helping ING build out its
leadership pipeline, while giving local management
graduates an opportunity to have a challenging and
rewarding career in one of the world's largest global
financial services company.

    Mr. Bartholomew Ng, Country Manager for China, ING
Insurance Asia/Pacific stated: "Since the
establishment of our first insurance representative office
in Beijing in 1993, ING has been actively involved in
training local graduates in the field of financial services
in cooperation with major universities, including Beijing
University, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics,
Guangxi Normal University and Shanghai Jiaotong University.
 This year, we are stepping up those efforts through the
introduction of this structured programme which nurtures
the careers of talented management graduates, providing
them with the skill set necessary to achieve a company's
global ambitions and offering them the opportunity to work
in an international financial services company."

    ING currently operates in ten cities in China.  Pacific
Antai Life Insurance Company, ING's first life-insurance
joint venture, operates in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dongguan,
Nanhai and Shunde.  ING Capital Life, ING's second
life-insurance joint venture, is active in Dalian, Beijing,
Shenyang and is currently setting up operations in Jinan. 
Other ING businesses in China include retail banking
through its 19.9% stake in Bank of Beijing; corporate and
investment banking through ING Wholesale Banking; and asset
management through China Merchants Fund Management, based in
Shenzhen and the largest foreign joint-venture fund manager,
and ING Real Estate, which develops and manages properties
in Beijing and Shanghai.

    ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin
offering banking, insurance and asset management to over 60
million private, corporate and institutional clients in more
than 50 countries.  With a diverse workforce in excess of
115,000 people, ING comprises a broad spectrum of prominent
companies that increasingly serve their clients under the
ING brand.

    For more information, please contact: 

    ING Asia/Pacific
     Karen Williams 
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Polly Leung
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

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