insurance portfolio and Rodamco Asia to its asset management operations. In 2021, ING acquired Johnson Insurance of Canada.

The 1995 purchase of Barings Bank for one pound after its dramatic failure led to a boost in the company's wholesale banking investment banking business. Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London and one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank. It was founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a British-born member of the German-British Baring family