An email from ING Direct, dated January 31, 2007, announcing the new Electric Orange checking account. It has your standard online bill pay that everyone offers, but also a number of pretty interesting and unique elements. For one, this is not an entirely paperless checking account. You can write checks from the […]

It’s time that the people at VirtualBank rethink their referral program. While on one hand it offers a very nice theoretical payout for converting all of one’s 50 available referrals, $1000, the way the program is structured makes it very difficult to actually receive that amount.
I’m not saying it’s misleading to suggest […]

Without giving away the keys to the store, I thought I’d write a few general pointers on how to convert ING Direct and VirtualBank referrals.
First, respond to a request for a referral immediately. You have to anticipate that, with the hundreds of readily available web pages offering referrals, the person making the request has […]

ING Direct is rolling out a promotion in Chicago, Illinois, as part of its plan to begin building physical presences in more states. The CTA’s Orange “L” line, naturally, has been chosen as a medium for advertising the arrival, with the train cars wrapped with the ING Direct lion logo and phrases such as […]

By setting up an Automatic Savings Plan, which is an automatic recurring transfer of funds from your linked checking account, you’ll be entered in a monthly $1000 drawing and a $25,000 grand prize. Interestingly, but not suprisingly, the grand prize is a 24-Month Orange CD in the amount of $25,000. The monthly prize is […]

Just who is ING?
ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management to over 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients in more than 50 countries. With a diverse workforce of about 115,000 people, ING comprises a broad spectrum of prominent companies that increasingly serve its clients under the […]