ING DIRECT offer for Interhyp: Acceptance ratio reaches 89.55 percent, additional acceptance period runs from 31 July to 13 August 2008

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(Munich, 30 July 2008) With its cash offer to the shareholders of
Interhyp AG ING DIRECT N.V. achieved a distinct majority of 89.55
percent of the shares already at the end of the original acceptance
period on 24 July 2008. The statutory additional acceptance period
starts on 31 July 2008 and will run until 13 August 2008. During this
time Interhyp shareholders will once more have the opportunity to
tender their shares to ING DIRECT at a cash price of EUR 64.

ING DIRECT, the direct banking unit of ING Group N.V., announced on
19 May 2008 that it would offer shareholders of Interhyp AG a cash
price of EUR 64 per share. This offer - under consideration of a
dividend amounting to a total of EUR 4.10 per share - corresponds to
a 42 per cent premium over Interhyp's Xetra closing share price on
16 May 2008. Closing of this offer was not subject to a minimum
acceptance ratio, and the required approval by the anti-trust
authorities and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) have been obtained in the
meantime. Also, Interhyp's founders, Co-CEOs and major shareholders,
Robert Haselsteiner and Marcus Wolsdorf, who supported the offer from
the beginning, have tendered their combined 32.3 per cent stake into
the offer.

About Interhyp
With EUR 5.7 billion in new residential mortgage volume in 2007,
Interhyp is Germany's leading independent residential mortgage
distributor. Interhyp combines the power of the Internet with high
quality mortgage advice. More than 250 mortgage consultants can
choose among the products of more than 70 mortgage lenders to provide
borrowers with rates that are significantly below those of
traditional branch-based retail banks. In addition to its internet
and telephone based channels, Interhyp offers face to face advice in
its offices in Augsburg, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bremen, Cologne,
Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe,
Leipzig, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremburg, Stuttgart and Wiesbaden.

Press Contact: Christian Kraus, SVP Corporate Communications,
Telephone +49-89-20307-1301,
E-Mail: christian.kraus@interhyp.de

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