{"id":36867,"date":"2014-09-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/ing-group-included-in-leading-banks-indices\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T03:00:00","slug":"ing-group-included-in-leading-banks-indices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/ing-group-included-in-leading-banks-indices\/","title":{"rendered":"ING Group included in leading banks indices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As announced by STOXX Limited today and on 26 August 2014, this is the result of a regular quarterly component review conducted by STOXX Limited, an established and leading index specialist.<\/p>\n<p>ING also remains a constituent in several other STOXX indices, including its European benchmark STOXX\u00ae Europe 50 and the Eurozone benchmark EURO STOXX\u00ae 50.<\/p>\n<p>The component selection lists that are used for STOXX\u00ae indices are based on the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB). In June 2014, ICB reclassified ING Group from the &#8220;Life Insurance&#8221; subsector into &#8220;Banks&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Separately, in August 2014, ING Group&#8217;s Industry Group classification changed from &#8220;Diversified Financials&#8221; to &#8220;Banks&#8221; under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS\u00ae). <\/p>\n<p>Following the June reclassification, FTSE International Limited implemented several index changes, including designating ING Group as a constituent in the FTSEurofirst Euro Banks Index and the FTSEurofirst Banks Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ING Group will, as of today, be included in the EURO STOXX\u00ae Banks Index, with a weighting of 3.83%, and in the STOXX\u00ae Europe 600 Banks Index, with a weighting of 7.60%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":36865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1718,1671,1651,1437,2103,1919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}