ING announced that Tanate Phutrakul will succeed Koos Timmermans as CFO of ING. As announced on 11 September 2018, in consultation with the Supervisory Board, Koos Timmermans will step down from his position as chief financial officer and member of the Executive Board of ING Group and will leave the company. In order to ensure an orderly transition Tanate Phutrakul will succeed Koos Timmermans, being appointed as CFO and member of the Management Board Banking on 7 February 2019, after the presentation of the 2018 fourth quarter and full year results, which is scheduled for 6 February 2019.

The Supervisory Board will nominate Tanate Phutrakul for appointment as a member of the Executive Board of ING Group at the Annual General Meeting in April 2019. The appointments have been approved by the European Central Bank. Tanate Phutrakul (Thai, 1965) is currently ING Group Controller.

He first joined ING in 1998 as managing director of ING Barings Securities Thailand.