"What we want to do is have a business that is performing well...so that we can write a prospectus with the government enabling the government to start selling shares from let's say the middle of 2014 on," Philip Hampton said in a video interview published by the bank on its website.

"It could be earlier, that's a matter for the government," Hampton added in the interview.

(Reporting by Matt Scuffham; Editing by Steve Slater)