AIB is under pressure to sell off its prized US, British and Polish assets as the Government anticipates it could become a majority stakeholder in the bank.

THERE is an unanswerable case now for the Government to publish a white paper on banking. The multiplicity of reasons for this needs to be chronicled.

AIB SHAREHOLDERS should see dividends increase by 12% when the company announces its results for the year ending December 31 2002, stockbrokers Dolmen Securities predict.