Company: INGVF
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-056511
Chunk: 176

Company: ING GROEP NV
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: 424B5
Chunk 176
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 certain aspects of
credit default swaps, any person who acquires or disposes of a net short position relating to the issued share capital of ING Groep N.V., whether by a transaction in shares or ADRs, or by a transaction creating or relating to any financial
instrument where the effect or one of the effects of the transaction is to confer a financial advantage on the person entering into that transaction in the event of a change in the price of such shares or ADRs, is required to notify the AFM, in
accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned regulation if, as a result of such acquisition or disposal the person’s net short position reaches, exceeds or falls below 0.2% of the issued share capital of ING Groep N.V. and each 0.1%
above that. Each reported net short position equal to 0.5% of the issued share capital of ING Groep N.V. and any subsequent increase of that position by 0.1% will be made public via the short selling register on the website of the AFM.

Change of control provisions

Legal provisions

Pursuant to the terms of the Dutch Financial Supervision Act, a declaration of no objection from the ECB must be obtained by anyone wishing to
acquire or hold a participating interest of at least 10 percent in ING Groep N.V. and to exercise control attached to such a participating interest. Similarly, on the basis of indirect change of control statutes in the various jurisdictions
where subsidiaries of ING Groep N.V. are operating, permission from, or notification to, local regulatory authorities may be required for the acquisition of a substantial interest in ING Groep N.V.

Pursuant to the proposed Dutch Act on the national screening of investments mergers and acquisitions (Wet veiligheidstoets investeringen, fusies en overnames, the “Dutch FDI Act”), the acquisition of significant influence (e.g., having at least 10%, 20% or 25% of the votes in the general meeting of the target) in inter alia providers of certain vital
processes, which will likely include certain services provided by ING Group, needs to be ex ante notified to the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate. The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate may impose prior conditions to the
acquisition of such influence in ING Group. The Dutch FDI Act is not yet in force as at the date of this prospect