The Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company was an Australian insurance and financial services company. It was established in 1878, and lasted until 2001, when it became part of
ING Australia
ING Bank (Australia) Limited (trade name, trading as ING since 2017, and as ING DIRECT 1999–2017) is a direct bank operating in Australia. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Netherlands, Dutch bank, ING Group. ING in Austral ...
. The insurance portion of the business was later sold to
ANZ and branded as OnePath in 2010.
Mercantile Mutual sponsored the
Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament
The One-Day Cup, for which the prize was renamed the Dean Jones Trophy from the 2024–25 season, is an Australian domestic List A 50-over limited-overs cricket tournament. It has had many different names, formats and teams since the inaugura ...
from 1992 to 2001, when it was called the "Mercantile Mutual Cup".
References
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Further reading
* ''Servant of a Century: The First 100 Years of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance'' (1978)
Financial services companies established in 1878
Australian companies established in 1878
Australian companies disestablished in 2001
Financial services companies disestablished in 2001
Insurance companies of Australia
ING Group
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group