Central banking
Scottish National Investment Bank: Views and Ideas
Author / Creator: Sotirios Frantzanas
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2019
The Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) should be a lender of first resort that aims to fill the finance gap that exists for particular sectors and groups of the Scottish economy.
Scottish National Investment Bank: Views and Ideas
Author / Creator: Sotirios Frantzanas
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2019
The Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) should be a lender of first resort that aims to fill the finance gap that exists for particular sectors and groups of the Scottish economy.
Let’s get Scotland’s banking right
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Video
Date published: 2021
Policies to get banking oriented to customer benefit rather than profit. Pointers on how to establish and run a Scottish Central Bank.
Scotland’s National Bank – Central Banking in an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: November 2017
an independent Scotland should maintain its own currency. The formation of a central bank and the philosophy behind it should be explained. Scotland’s central bank would be self-funded and self-sustaining and should be publicly owned so as to generate a return for the Scottish Treasury.
Blueprint for a Scottish National Investment Bank
Author / Creator: Laurie MacFarlane
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2016
A Scottish National Investment Bank should
- support investment in infrastructure and SMEs
- be publicly owned but operated independently
- promote the highest levels of transparency and accountability.
- allowed to raise funds on capital markets by issuing bonds