One out of the preceding Royal Bank of Scotland directors to stay behind on the bank's panel through the days of ex- chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin is prepared to step down from his position.

Colin Buchan, 56, a past UBS investment banker who in anticipation, lately was chairman of RBS's remuneration committee, is geared up to depart in March, as per the people familiar with the plan.

The exit that leaves only one director through Sir Fred's term on the panel, will correspond with the intended publication by the UK's Financial Services Power of a statement on the authoritarian and management breakdown that guided to the bank's 2009 release by the British government.

Sir Fred's hostile development policy, which concluded in him showing the way to a _71bn acquirement of Dutch bank ABN Amro during 2007, left the bank with an enormous assortment of toxic assets, inadequate capital and feeble financial support when the financial disaster hit.

The FSA expressed previous year that its search into the matter had discovered no deception, deceit or governance deteriorating at RBS - an end that fascinated extensive censure and requires the watchdog to publish its conclusion in complete.