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        The Lion is the symbol of ING since 1991.

        The lion is the king of animals and a symbol of power. Orange is the national colour of the Netherlands and also the symbol of the Netherlands.

         

        The predecessors of ING, like the saving bank, 'Rijkspostspaarbank', a government service used the lion in her logo since 1881. Most government services did in those days.
        But also the assurance company 'De Nederlanden van 1845' used the lion in her logo. And the other predecessor the 'Nationale Levensverzekering-Bank’ used a virgin with a lion lying by her feet.

         

        The 'Nederlandsche Middenstandsbank'  (NMB) also used a lion in her logo in the fifties, as a Dutch bank with state guarantee.

         

        In 1963 the 'Nationale Nederlanden’

        (a merger between the two above named assurance companies) choose a new logo: two graphic orange NN by the same reason, orange was the Dutch colour. The 'Postbank’ used a blue lion since 1986 (still does). After the merger of Postbank and NMB in 1989 the Group logo became grey lion (the logo’s of the Postbank and NMB didn’t change). In 1991, when 'NMB Postbank Group’ merged with Nationale-Nederlanden the board choose the orange lion for the logo.