Company: INGVF
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-056511
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Company: ING GROEP NV
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: 424B5
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 call or put options, warrants, swaps or any other similar contract, to notify in writing the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the “AFM”)
immediately after the acquisition or disposal of the triggering interest in ING’s share capital.

A notification requirement also
applies if a person’s capital interest or voting rights reaches, exceeds or falls below the above-mentioned thresholds as a result of a change in ING Groep N.V.’s total issued share capital or voting rights. Such notification must be made
no later than the fourth trading day after the AFM has published ING Groep N.V.’s notification of the change in its issued share capital.

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The notification will be recorded in a public register that is held by the AFM and published
on afm.nl/en/.

Non-compliance with the obligations of the Major Holdings Rules can lead to
criminal prosecution or administrative law sanctions. In addition, a civil court can issue orders against any person who fails to notify or incorrectly notifies the AFM, in accordance with the Major Holdings Rules, including suspension of the voting
right in respect of such person’s ordinary shares.

In addition to the investors (or potential shareholders) shown in Item 7.A
‘Major shareholders’ in the 2021 Form 20-F as per year-end 2021, based on the AFM register additional shareholders with holdings of 3% or more in ING Groep
N.V. are Artisan Investments GP LLC (3.00% interest and 3.00% voting rights reported on 2 March 2022) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (3.07% interest and 3.07% voting rights reported on 11 April 2022).

Each person holding a gross short position in relation to the issued share capital of ING Groep N.V.that reaches, exceeds or falls below any
one of the above-mentioned thresholds must immediately give written notice to the AFM. If a person’s gross short position reaches, exceeds or falls below one of the above-mentioned thresholds as a result of a change in ING Groep N.V.’s
issued share capital, such person must make a notification not later than the fourth trading day after the AFM has published the Company’s notification in the public register of the AFM.

In addition, pursuant to Regulation (EU) no. 236/2012 of the European Parliament and the Council on short-selling and