Η τράπεζα του Βατικανό εκδίδει οικονομικές καταστάσεις

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Εγγραφή: 18 Αύγ 2009 01:08
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Σε μια προσπάθεια να ενισχύσουν την αξιοπιστία τους προς τους πιστούς υπακούοντας ταυτόχρονα στο ιταλικό κράτος που υποτίθεται ότι θέλει να εμποδίσει δραστηριότητες ξεπλύματος μαύρου χρήματος για να δυσκολέψει τη χρηματοδότηση τρομοκρατών, οι του Βατικανό αποφάσισαν να δημοσιοποιήσουν σήμερα για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία πλήρεις οικονομικές καταστάσεις της τράπεζας του Βατικανό, υπεύθυνης για τη διαχείριση της περιουσίας της αγίας έδρας. Μιλάμε για μια τράπεζα με ενεργητικό 7,1 δις ευρώ που ανήκει εξολοκλήρου στην αγία έδρα και δε δίνει δάνεια σε νοικοκυριά κι επιχειρήσεις.

Άντε και στα δικά μας;

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-3 ... drive.html

The Vatican bank will publish a detailed annual report for the first time in its history today as it seeks to improve financial transparency after several corruption scandals.
The bank, formally called the Institute for Works of Religion, or IOR, will release its 2012 full report at about 8 a.m. Rome time, giving a breakdown of its balance sheet and income statement. The Vatican bank earlier this year reported 2012 profit more than quadrupled to 86.6 million euros ($117 million), according to its website.
The earnings publication is part of Vatican Bank President Ernst von Freyberg’s effort to help transform a 71-year-old institution rocked by scandal into a transparent financial firm. In June, Pope Francis named a special commission to help oversee the operations of the bank after Moneyval, the Council of Europe’s monitoring body for money laundering and terrorism financing, called for independent supervision of the bank.
Von Freyberg assumed responsibility for 18,900 clients and took over an organization when he accepted the appointment from Francis’s predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, in February. His team is reviewing the source of all deposits, from the savings of individual nuns and priests to the operating resources of Catholic congregations with worldwide reach.

Assets Under Management

The bank oversees about 7.1 billion euros in assets, largely in bonds and cash. IOR clients with outposts from Chile to Tanzania manage income, transfers and expenditures out of the bank located in the world’s smallest state, situated in the heart of Rome. The bank doesn’t use deposits for lending and had less than 1 billion euros in equities at the end of last year.
The bank’s profit is at the disposal of the Holy See. Last year it gave the Pope a contribution of 50 million euros. The IOR had 114 employees at the end of 2012 and is housed in a building adjacent to the papal offices just off St. Peter’s Square.
The Vatican is trying to overcome three decades of scandals ranging from the Banco Ambrosiano failure in the 1980s to the freezing of 23 million euros by Italian prosecutors in 2010 in a money-laundering probe.
While admitting no wrongdoing, the Vatican paid $240 million to Banco Ambrosiano account holders in 1984 after the IOR was implicated in the lender’s fraudulent bankruptcy. Ambrosiano’s former chairman Roberto Calvi, dubbed “God’s banker,” was found hanged under London’s Blackfriar’s Bridge in June of 1982 amid the scandal.
The Vatican signed an agreement with Italian authorities July 26 to exchange information about the bank in order to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. Similar accords have also been signed with other countries, including the U.S.
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