Voya Financial is an American financial, retirement, investment and insurance company based in
New York City
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. Voya began as ING U.S., the United States operating subsidiary of
ING Group
ING Group N.V. () is a Dutch multinational corporation, multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, whol ...
, which was spun off in 2013 and established independent financial backing through an
initial public offering
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.
[ In April 2014, the company rebranded itself as Voya Financial.] Voya's predecessors had first entered the U.S. market in the 1970s.
Voya Financial returned to the Fortune 500
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list in 2024, coming in at #487 with $7.3 billion in revenue.
Operations
The company's main center for broker-dealer
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(the ''ING Financial Partners'' division) and annuities
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businesses is located in Des Moines, Iowa
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. This center was first established in 1997 and employed 400 as of late 2014. On July 31, 2017, Voya entered into an agreement with Cognizant
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to outsource a broad range of IT services, resulting in layoffs and jobs transferred to Cognizant.
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