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Dominic O’Neill

EMEA editor

Dominic O’Neill is EMEA editor. He joined Euromoney in 2007 to cover emerging markets, focusing on central and eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and later on Latin America. Based in London, he has covered developed market banking since 2015.

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Opinion

Privatization in Ukraine has a chance, but there are mountains to climb

Although the relative health of some nationalized banks may facilitate their privatization, major obstacles to any sales remain.

Dominic O’Neill, May 14, 2024

BANKING

A quarter century later, did ING Direct live up to the hype?

Twenty-five years ago in Spain, ING launched a branchless bank – still its biggest greenfield retail operation. Euromoney asks Iberia chief executive Ignacio Juliá Vilar what still makes it stand out from both incumbents and newer arrivals.

Dominic O’Neill, May 07, 2024

BANKING

BBVA/Banco Sabadell: the benefit of hindsight

BBVA could have bought Banco Sabadell much more cheaply in 2020. Sabadell’s CEO César González-Bueno has since turned his bank around. But BBVA’s return to the negotiating table comes at a time when European banking may be moving to a new and more confident phase.

Dominic O’Neill, May 01, 2024

BANKING

Why incumbents keep building neobanks

Dominic O’Neill, April 18, 2024

BANKING

Megalou plans a new era of growth at Piraeus Bank

Dominic O’Neill, April 03, 2024

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WEALTH

EFG’s Pradelli looks beyond Europe’s ‘old money’

Dominic O’Neill, March 27, 2024

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WEALTH

Rivals eye Swiss riches after Credit Suisse failure

Dominic O’Neill, March 26, 2024

BANKING

Why incumbents keep building neobanks

Dominic O’Neill, April 18, 2024

BANKING

Megalou plans a new era of growth at Piraeus Bank

Dominic O’Neill, April 03, 2024

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WEALTH

EFG’s Pradelli looks beyond Europe’s ‘old money’

Dominic O’Neill, March 27, 2024

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WEALTH

Rivals eye Swiss riches after Credit Suisse failure

Dominic O’Neill, March 26, 2024

CAPITAL MARKETS

Loan-on-loan market could fuel real-estate rebound

Dominic O’Neill, March 13, 2024
Opinion

Is Nationwide’s Virgin Money takeover a victory for the branch?

Dominic O’Neill, March 07, 2024
BANKING

Krupa must manage expectations at SocGen

Dominic O’Neill, February 27, 2024
BANKING

Will German banks be real estate’s next casualties?

Dominic O’Neill, February 22, 2024
Opinion

Is Raiffeisen’s Strabag deal a step towards an exit from Russia?

Dominic O’Neill, January 31, 2024
BANKING

Bankers chase a new golden era in CEE

Dominic O’Neill, January 19, 2024
Fintech

Efforts to unify Europe’s mobile payments schemes meet head on

Dominic O’Neill, January 16, 2024
BANKING

Will Cerberus’ latest European banking play come good?

Dominic O’Neill, January 05, 2024
BANKING

ECB unveils new bank-specific actions in SREP results

Dominic O’Neill, December 19, 2023
BANKING

Europe’s banking supervisors tighten the screws

Dominic O’Neill, December 15, 2023
BANKING

What Ukraine can teach the world’s banks

Dominic O’Neill, December 06, 2023
Fintech

Africa fintech Flutterwave moves on from Kenya setback

Dominic O’Neill, November 20, 2023
CAPITAL MARKETS

Standard Chartered shifts growth to capital markets

Dominic O’Neill, November 20, 2023
BANKING

Ukraine recap takes EBRD into a new era

Dominic O’Neill, November 15, 2023
Opinion

Alpha Romania deal is a step change for UniCredit and Greece

Dominic O’Neill, October 24, 2023
BANKING

Basel endgame heightens shadow-banking fears

Dominic O’Neill, October 20, 2023
BANKING

Italy’s Visco offers his parting words

Dominic O’Neill, October 18, 2023
Opinion

Can regional growth make Greek banks relevant again?

Dominic O’Neill, October 06, 2023
BANKING

How far can Orcel take UniCredit?

Dominic O’Neill, October 04, 2023
Opinion

Why BNP Paribas’s CEO succession may not copy SocGen’s turn to Krupa

Dominic O’Neill, October 02, 2023
BANKING

Krupa’s grand plan for SocGen launches with a whimper

Dominic O’Neill, September 18, 2023
BANKING

Lloyds sees first fruits of capital markets strategy

Dominic O’Neill, September 18, 2023
CAPITAL MARKETS

How debt and geopolitics made a lethal mix for development

Dominic O’Neill, September 07, 2023
BANKING

Orabank purchase propels Vista’s pan-African ambitions

Dominic O’Neill, September 01, 2023
Opinion

What VeloBank and OTP Romania’s sales say about CEE banking

Dominic O’Neill, August 29, 2023
Opinion

What other governments can learn from Italy’s windfall tax saga

Dominic O’Neill, August 17, 2023
BANKING

What Alison Rose leaves behind at NatWest

Dominic O’Neill, July 26, 2023
CAPITAL MARKETS

Can a new Ukrainian DFI get off the ground?

Dominic O’Neill, July 24, 2023
BANKING

Sewing cites European sovereignty as justification for large banks

Dominic O’Neill, July 19, 2023
Awards for Excellence

The world’s best bank 2023: Cautiously bold – How BNP Paribas combines vision with prudence

Dominic O’Neill, July 13, 2023
Opinion

How Europe’s national banks move in tandem

Dominic O’Neill, July 03, 2023
Fintech

Can banks capitalize on the fintech fallout?

Dominic O’Neill, May 02, 2023
Opinion

Debt funds alone cannot rescue commercial real estate

Dominic O’Neill, March 31, 2023
BANKING

Banks shift gear as mobility goes electric

Dominic O’Neill, March 14, 2023
BANKING

Santander looks to network effects to answer its critics

Dominic O’Neill, March 08, 2023
BANKING

Commerzbank rides a return to form – and the DAX

Dominic O’Neill, February 27, 2023
BANKING

UK lender OakNorth faces up to its first downturn

Dominic O’Neill, February 22, 2023
Opinion

Why ‘Britcoin’ could disrupt banks more than a digital euro

Dominic O’Neill, February 13, 2023
BANKING

Election brings hope and fear for Nigerian banks

Dominic O’Neill, February 08, 2023
CAPITAL MARKETS

Real estate debt funds face their day of reckoning

Dominic O’Neill, January 10, 2023
Opinion

Will Lloyds fall behind NatWest in this downturn?

Dominic O’Neill, December 06, 2022
Fintech

The ECB’s path to a digital euro

Dominic O’Neill, November 30, 2022
BANKING

What’s behind SocGen and AllianceBernstein’s new equities partnership?

Dominic O’Neill, November 24, 2022
Fintech

NatWest spins Mettle tech into banking-as-a-service venture

Dominic O’Neill, November 14, 2022
ESG

Is the energy crisis an opportunity for banks?

Dominic O’Neill, November 09, 2022
ESG

How the energy crisis hits Europe’s sustainability leaders

Dominic O’Neill, November 02, 2022
BANKING

UK banks’ cost of equity reaches 19%

Dominic O’Neill, October 10, 2022
Opinion

Why are Raiffeisen and UniCredit still in Russia?

Dominic O’Neill, October 04, 2022
BANKING

SocGen’s board opts for safety with Krupa as CEO

Dominic O’Neill, October 03, 2022
Opinion

HVB’s CEO exit highlights tension at UniCredit

Dominic O’Neill, September 30, 2022
BANKING

Lone Star’s Cyprus pullback might not be the end

Dominic O’Neill, September 29, 2022
Opinion

Italian banks pin their hopes on Draghi’s legacy

Dominic O’Neill, September 27, 2022
Opinion

In this inflation crisis, banks should prioritize their reputations

Dominic O’Neill, August 25, 2022
BANKING

Polish mortgage holidays risk permanent damage for banks

Dominic O’Neill, August 24, 2022
BANKING

Sanctions risks increase Turkish bank vulnerability

Dominic O’Neill, August 23, 2022
CAPITAL MARKETS

How Europe’s political disunity prevents big bank M&A

Dominic O’Neill, August 10, 2022
CAPITAL MARKETS

One year on, has delisting made Natixis stronger?

Dominic O’Neill, August 09, 2022
BANKING

ECB board member Fernandez-Bollo insists that big European banks still have room to grow

Dominic O’Neill, August 05, 2022
ESG

Sustainable push brings new momentum to ING’s wholesale bank

Dominic O’Neill, July 22, 2022
Awards for Excellence

The world’s best bank transformation 2022: HCOB – radical change is possible, even in Germany

Dominic O’Neill, July 14, 2022
Fintech

Cryptocurrencies: Tether is ‘open to providing more information’

Dominic O’Neill, June 15, 2022
BANKING

Rates bring no let-up in transformation pressures, says CaixaBank’s Gortázar

Dominic O’Neill, June 10, 2022
BANKING

Erste seeks new start after CEO exit

Dominic O’Neill, May 31, 2022
BANKING

Banks want to be venture builders too

Dominic O’Neill, April 29, 2022
BANKING

Societe Generale makes a costly exit from Russia

Dominic O’Neill, April 11, 2022
BANKING

Are Raiffeisen’s international ambitions over?

Dominic O’Neill, April 07, 2022
BANKING

Russia-free Santander eyes Banamex sale

Dominic O’Neill, March 28, 2022
BANKING

Digital bets revive BBVA’s global ambitions

Dominic O’Neill, March 14, 2022
BANKING

Could the European bank recovery be over before it has begun?

Dominic O’Neill, March 07, 2022
BANKING

Russia: Should banks cut and run?

Dominic O’Neill, March 02, 2022
BANKING

Intesa Sanpaolo to launch digital bank with four million existing clients

Dominic O’Neill, February 07, 2022
Opinion

Share buybacks are the new normal for European banks

Dominic O’Neill, February 04, 2022
BANKING

Andrea Orcel: ‘We will not deviate from our capital returns strategy’

Dominic O’Neill, January 28, 2022
BANKING

Crédit Agricole CIB offers a lesson in investment-banking survival

Dominic O’Neill, January 19, 2022
Fintech

Can banks reposition themselves as fintech stocks?

Dominic O’Neill, January 11, 2022
BANKING

Societe Generale: LeasePlan deal highlights bid to move on from legacy business

Dominic O’Neill, January 07, 2022
THE EUROMONEY 25

Wells Fargo: Not out of the woods yet

Dominic O’Neill, December 10, 2021
THE EUROMONEY 25

UniCredit: Orcel lays the ground for a strategic refresh

Dominic O’Neill, December 10, 2021
THE EUROMONEY 25

BNP Paribas: Will freed up capital just go on buybacks and bolt-ons?

Dominic O’Neill, December 10, 2021
THE EUROMONEY 25

Crédit Agricole: Building resilience in retail

Dominic O’Neill, December 10, 2021
THE EUROMONEY 25

Santander: UK and US banks power a rebound

Dominic O’Neill, December 10, 2021
BANKING

UniCredit’s Orcel asks investors to put faith in capital returns

Dominic O’Neill, December 10, 2021
BANKING

Rising interest rates a ‘game changer’, says Santander’s Álvarez

Dominic O’Neill, December 10, 2021
Treasury

How the supply-chain crisis is changing banking

Dominic O’Neill, December 08, 2021

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