ING Group shareholders have approved the appointment of Ida Lerner to the Executive Board as Chief Financial Officer at the bank's annual general meeting on 14 April 2026; she had joined the Management Board Banking on 1 April 2026. Lerner succeeds Tanate Phutrakul, who stepped down at the Dutch bank's April 2026 annual general meeting as ING had announced in July 2025. The appointment, which was first announced by ING on 29 October 2025, had already received approval from the European Central Bank, leaving shareholder approval at the AGM as the final step before Lerner took up the CFO role at the Amsterdam-headquartered group.
Lerner arrives at ING from Norwegian bank DNB, where she had been CFO since 2021; she earlier worked at HSBC and Nordea. Chief executive Steven van Rijswijk said when the appointment was announced: "Her experience as CFO at a large listed bank will be instrumental as we continue to execute our strategy."
A STRUCTURED TRANSITION AT THE TOP
ING announced the appointment on 29 October 2025, five months before she joined the bank, with ECB approval already in hand.
Lerner said she was "honoured to be joining ING at a time of growth, and with a clear ambition to become the best European bank".