Dutch Pump $13.5 Billion into ING
The Netherlands' biggest bank, the latest European financial institution to seek public help, will sell an 8.5% stake to its government
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ING, The Dutch financial services giant, last night became the latest large European bank to turn to its government for an injection of capital. The bank, the biggest in the Netherlands, announced it would sell an 8.5 per cent stake to the Dutch government for €10bn (£7.8bn), as it attempts to improve its capital funding.
The capital boost followed a weekend of talks with the Dutch government following ING's announcement on Friday that it had lost €500m in the third quarter of the year, the first such loss in its history, after making €2bn of writedowns on investments.