You can read about our ongoing campaign here: https://commonweal.scot/index.php/policy-library/submission-scottish-national-investment-bank

The big barrier is still the lack of funding. @scotgov must press the UK Treasury to give it the same dispensation as RBS has to allow it to be a bank and raise more capital than ScotGov can give it.
£2bn over ten years sounds like a lot but the climate emergency is going to require Scotland to invest around £170 billion over the next ̶2̶5̶ 24 years.

https://commonweal.scot/our-common-home 
The Missions are yet to be formally set. While SME investment like this first announcement will be a central part of the bank portfolio, it also needs to invest in financially safer, socially necessary schemes like public housing and energy.

https://commonweal.scot/policy-library/good-houses-all
The Bank can breed banks. It could help fund a network of (separately run) mutually owned, public retail banks to ensure that everyone in Scotland has access to cash and financial services - too many are being left not even with the only bank in town.

https://commonweal.scot/index.php/policy-library/better-banking-public-good-banking-network-scotland
We'd also prefer a review of the Governance structure of the SNIB. We won the right to have a stakeholder board advise the bank but it will only do so indirectly via the relevant Scottish Government Minister.
The success of the Citizens' Assemblies have proven our case. The Advisory Board should be allowed to report directly to the Bank in a fully equal, tripartite relationship alongside the Bank's Governing Board and the Government.
The Governing Board would, of course, have the final say and can take or leave all advice, but it should be able to receive that advice publicly and unfiltered. Doing so may help mitigate the risk of it falling into "just" being another investment bank, run by investment bankers.
The SNIB is as a long term project. Not one just for the climate emergency but as something that can be the fabric of Scottish life for centuries to come. Right now, if it is allowed to, it can help us build a Resilient Scotland. After...let's see. /End

https://commonweal.scot/resilience 
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