The Scottish public have let their voices be heard on pay-caps and transparency in the high echelons of the new Scottish National Investment Bank.
Questions have already been raised over governance, salaries, and also scale, whether the £200 million a year pledged by the Scottish Government will be enough.
SNIB chief Benny Higgins admits there's "a huge amount of devil in the detail" but insists the consultation process, the responses to which are published today, brings a "very broad church of support for the bank".
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He says that "there aren’t really people who say it is not a good idea, although people will have close questions about aspects".
Assurances have been made over autonomy, integrity and values and it has been estimated that on top of £2 billion over ten years a further £4bn of private cash could be unlocked.
There will remain sceptics and those who will reserve judgement until the devilish detail is ready to be revealed.
The bank will be brought into existence against a potentially stormy backdrop, either way, unsettled.
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As the bank's Bill makes its way through Parliament, the UK will be embroiled in the parting of the ways with Europe.
Mr Higgins says that while "no one might be able to quantify the strength of the Brexit headwinds, one thing we do know is it’s headwinds".
The former Tesco Bank chief who was brought in on £95,000 a year to see the project to 2020 is one of the country's banking heavyweights who says he sees the bank being a cornerstone of the Scottish economy for "the next 100 years or more".
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