ING Belgium and consulting firms optimize the ESG strategy of companies

The bank ING Belgium recently presented its new strategic plan to actively participate in the transition of businesses to a more sustainable and environmentally responsible model. It relies on a partnership signed with four consulting firms and thus strengthens its position of extra-bank support.

FACTS

• ING Belgium has therefore just announced that it would now rely on four new partners to position itself as an additional support able to help its business customers to ensure a more sustainable management of their business.

• These new partners are:
  • Pantarein, a consulting firm specialized in assisting Dutch-speaking clients in their transition to sustainable business models;
  • Intraco, a specialist in support of Francophone clients who provides advice on the development and implementation of business-friendly sustainability strategies;
  • BoPro, a real estate specialist able to assist companies in carrying out energy audits and preparing transition plans to make their real estate portfolio more sustainable;
  • Stadim, a real estate specialist who works with Bopro to provide energy audit services and transition planning.

• Thanks to them, ING Belgium offers its business customers new tools such as:
  • an automated guide on sustainable buildings and how to reduce the C02 impact of buildings,
  • support for establishing an ESG strategy,
  • assistance in meeting the reporting requirements of the CSDD Directive,
  • personalized tips to ensure transitions.

• ING Belgium's corporate clients are invited to contact their bank advisor to plan a personalized appointment with one of its partners.

ISSUES

• Densify your accompaniment: The collaboration between ING Belgium and its new consulting partners is primarily aimed at providing the bank's client companies with the tools and expertise needed to adapt to the new requirements for more sustainable management of their business. This position also represents a new commercial lever for ING Belgium which specifies that it wants to finance companies' investments in sustainability.

• Ensuring diversification : This new association decided by ING Belgium also represents a new way for the bank to offer extra financial services to the specific target of its business customers. It therefore relies on its rapprochement with consulting firms to distil relevant information from its clients while offering itself an intermediary role outside the scope of purely banking services.

• Get involved in a vast transformation : ING Belgium's mobilisation represents a new step taken by the bank to support the ecological and responsible transition of the economy and society. And the strategic choice made by ING Belgium is that of the proposal for complementary support to its traditional banking and financial services.

PERSPECTIVE

• Many traditional banking players have positioned themselves in recent years to promote the ecological and responsible transition of their clients. This has often taken the form of the proposal for tools to monitor and reduce carbon emissions through data analysis. CommBank, Société Générale or RBC For example, they have positioned themselves.

• This multiplication of initiatives illustrates the relevance and legitimacy of banks to offer this type of services to their entire customer category, and to the specific target of professionals, to companies of all sizes. In addition to the advice and information, CaixaBank also made it the demonstration Just a few days ago, by choosing to finance the energy transition of small farmers.

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