AIB pledged to pay a €250m dividend at its annual results - the first since 2008. Stock image
AIB pledged to pay a €250m dividend at its annual results – the first since 2008. Stock image

An additional six banks were added to a planned initial public offering of AIB yesterday, heightening expectations the Government will pull the trigger on the partial privatisation before the summer.

As widely anticipated, Goodbody stockbrokers, the lender’s corporate adviser, landed a role as joint book-runner, alongside global investment banks.

Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, UBS were also included on the ticket with the co-lead manager position assigned to Investec, the South African-based…