World's leading direct savings bank
ING Direct, the world's leading direct savings bank, is active in nine countries and has over 20 million customers worldwide. We launched in the UK in May 2003 and now have over 1 million customers here. Our UK head office is in Reading and we opened a second office in Cardiff in 2004.
A simple approach
Our success stems from our simple approach. ING Direct now do savings, mortgage and home insurance products making finance simpler for everyone.
How can we do this?
Unlike other banks, we don't have expensive branches to run so we can keep our rates competitive but our costs low.
Part of the ING Group
ING Direct is part of ING (International Netherlands Group), which is one of the world's largest financial services organisations, operating in 60 countries with over 125,000 employees.


ING Direct is regulated by the Financial Services Authority for the conduct of UK business and as a Dutch bank, is authorised by De Nederlandsche Bank.
We also subscribe to the UK Banking Code and copies of the code are available on request, or from www.bba.org.uk. We are also members of both the Dutch Investors Compensation Scheme and the UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme www.fscs.org.uk.
Our customers receive at least the same level of protection as customers of any other UK bank to which only the UK scheme applies.
For full details please see the relevant product terms and conditions.