The online bank ING, which has announced its upcoming withdrawal from France, has confirmed that it has started to close thousands of savings accounts, judged inactive and unprofitable.
Formalized on December 21, ING’s French market start-up will take a long time to come to fruition. In the meantime, online banking has already started sort out your customers.
Asked by The Parisian, its management has confirmed having started, since the summer of 2021, to close the Orange Savings Booklets held by customers who have no other products. With an interest rate of 0.01%, these booklets are very poorly remunerative for them, she explained.
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It was the France Conso Banque association which resumed the wave of fences, after being alerted by users who had been kicked out. According to his estimate, 300,000 of them are concerned. She sees ING’s desire to clean up your client portfolio the least profitable. In anticipation of its departure, ING is indeed seeking to sell this portfolio. The online bank Boursorama (Socit Gnrale group) would hold the rope.
France Conso Banque has announced that it has set up a defense collective, intended for terminated customers, but also for others, who will soon be affected by the transfers of their accounts to the possible buyer.
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