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ING Groep N.V.

6/19/2013, 5:51 PM ET

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Friday, June 14, 5:11 PM ING Groep (ING) has agreed to sell ING Hipotecaria, its mortgage business in Mexico, to Grupo Financiero Santander Mexico. (BSMX) for around $50M in cash, as part of ING's effort to divest its insurance and investment management businesses. The business serves 28K customers through its 20 branches, which remained with ING following the divestment of its Latin American pensions, life insurance and investment management operations in 2011. Comment! [Financials, Global & FX]
Friday, June 14, 4:20 PM ING is selling its Mexican mortgage financing business (ING Hipotecaria) to Santander Mexico (BSMX); terms are undisclosed, and the deal is expected to close in 2H. ING says the sale is part of its efforts to unload its insurance and money management ops, and comes two days after a report the company is close to selling its South Korean life insurance unit. As of March 31, ING Hipotecaria had a loan portfolio of 12.3B pesos ($968M). Comment! [Financials, M&A]
Wednesday, June 12, 9:28 AM ING's attempt to sell its South Korean life insurance unit has a front-runner - Tongyang Life Insurance has bid for the entire business, reports the WSJ. This is ING's 2nd attempt at divesting the unit - a move required by Dutch regulators in exchange for their 2008 bailout of the bank. The sale could raise about $1.8B. Comment! [Financials]
Thursday, June 6, 6:44 AM ING Group is initiated with a Buy at Jefferies which sees a potential 40% upside for the stock. Shares +0.9% premarket. 1 Comment [Financials]
Friday, May 24, 8:19 AM There's new life in ING's attempt to sell its South Korean life insurance unit as Kyobo Life Insurance - SK's 3rd largest - says it has made a bid. The country's 2nd largest insurer - Hanwha - is also expected to make a bid, as are at least 2 P-E funds. KB Financial had been lined up to buy the unit for $2.1B last year, but dropped out. Comment! [Financials]
Monday, May 20, 8:07 AM It's shaping up as a big day for ING U.S. (VOYA) as a bullish Barron's piece on the undervalued and misunderstood insurer/asset manager combines with BTIG's Mark Palmer initiating with a Buy and $31 price target. "We believe there is a very good reason why ING management expressed dismay" at being forced to sell the unit. Shares +4.3% premarket. Comment! [Financials, On the Move, Quick Ideas]
Saturday, May 18, 8:45 AM Newly public ING U.S. (VOYA) is up 20% since its IPO 2 weeks ago, but only trades at 60% of book value compared to the average life insurer (MET, HIG, PRU) selling for near book, writes Andrew Bary. Not only that, but the company is misunderstood - it's more retirement-services specialist and asset manager (think PFG) than life insurer, and should command an even higher valuation. What's more the seller (ING) was forced by regulators to do so against its will, the ING CEO calling it a "significant destruction of capital." Spinoff & Reorg Profiles - rarely a fan of promoted IPOs - think's it's worth $31. With an easily digestible $6B market cap, it might be worth even more to an acquirer. 3 Comments [Quick Ideas, Financials]
Wednesday, May 8, 6:11 AM ING Group (ING): Q1 EPS of $0.47. (PR) 1 Comment [Earnings, Breaking News, Financials]
Thursday, May 2, 11:04 AM ING U.S. (VOYA +2.3%) opens higher after a lackluster IPO which found the stock pricing at $19.50, well below its expected range of $21-$24. Comment! [Financials, On the Move]
Thursday, May 2, 10:56 AM ING is reportedly prepping the sale of nearly two-thirds of its $4B U.S. property loan portfolio as it continues with plans to wind down its U.S. property-lending business. Bank sources expect to get face value of higher given the current rally in commercial debt and other recent sales that went well. "The response should be robust," says one investor. Comment! [Financials]
Wednesday, May 1, 7:00 AM The two men in charge of ING's U.S. unit - IPOing today and set to be renamed Voya Financial (VOYA) - are "the unsung heroes" of AIG, according to the former exec in charge of restructuring at the insurer. Voya CEO Rod Martin and COO Alain Karaoglan both oversaw AIG units as they were sold to raise capital. At the midpoint of the $21-$24 IPO price range, Voya would be selling for about 40% of book, a lower valuation than competitors MET, PFG, PRU, and LNC. 2 Comments [Financials]
Friday, April 26, 7:07 AM ING Group scales back its commercial banking operations, agreeing to sell its custody services operations in 7 countries - with assets of $143B - in central and eastern Europe to Citigroup. Details of the transaction are as yet undisclosed, but the bank announced plans last year to trim 1K jobs and $339M in costs from its commercial banking unit. Comment! [Financials]
Tuesday, April 16, 4:28 PM ING Group will attempt to raise up to $1.5B in the IPO of its U.S. unit, now renamed Voya Financial and expected to trade under the symbol VOYA. The U.S. operation had nearly $400B in AUM as of June 30, 2012, with operating income of $438.6M in the 12 months ending then. (S-1) Comment! [Financials]
Monday, April 15, 3:28 AM ING (ING) reportedly intends to launch the sale of its 31% stake in Thailand's TMB Bank (TMBBY.OB) after the county's election on May 5. The Dutch firm is waiting until after the poll in the hope that it can induce Malaysia's two dominant banks - CIMB Group (CIMDF.OB) and Malayan Banking (MLYBY.PK), to bid for the stake, whose value of $1.2B is well above the €460M that ING paid for it in 2007. ING has been selling assets around the world in order to repay a bailout. Comment! [Financials, M&A]
Thursday, April 11, 12:46 PM ING Group (ING +1.1%) which is divesting its U.S. business in an upcoming IPO, says it will change the name of ING US to to Voya Financial. The rebranding is expected to take 24 months following the IPO, and until that time, the company will continue to operate as ING US. The firm says it's choice of the name Voya Financial is a play on the term "guiding investors through their financial voyage." 6 Comments [Financials, On the Move]
Wednesday, April 3, 12:14 PM
ING is experiencing technical difficulties. Social media outlets are alive with complaints and the company's phone lines are "jammed" as customers claim account balances are off by thousands of euros. Shares -2.6%. 3 Comments [Financials]

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