Pope: launches new finance reform, Aif becomes Asif

(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, DEC 05 - New reform in the Vatican "aimed at greater transparency and strengthening of controls in the economic-financial field": the Pope approved the new Aif Statute, which will be called the Financial Supervisory and Information Authority (Asif) : "The revision was necessary both to bring the Statute into line with the tasks actually assigned to the Authority - in addition to the original function of financial intelligence and countering money laundering and terrorist financing, the Authority has also been supervising IOR-Asia since 2013 to initiate some significant organizational changes ", explains the Holy See. (HANDLE).