ING Groep, the largest Dutch-based financial services company, on Wednesday reported a 2.1 percent rise in first quarter underlying pretax profit to 1.69 billion euros ($2.0 billion), beating
expectations.

Analysts polled for Reuters had seen the figure falling to 1.48 billion euros, compared to 1.65 billion euros in the same quarter a year ago.

Source: cnbc
ING posts billion first-quarter pretax profit, beating estimates