文档介绍:All you discontented shareholders of Wall St institutions–take a leaf out of the Holy Father’s book. 所有对华尔街金融机构愤愤不已的股东们都从教皇的金玉良言中学到了一课。 Pope Francis h
has just axed the all-male, all-Italian board of the body that oversees the Vatican’s financial activities, aiming to draw a line under the money-laun
dering scandals that plagued his predecessor. It’s the latest sign of the new pontiff’s desire to clean up and open up possibly the only institution t
hat has had more scandals than Wall St in recent years. 教皇弗朗西斯一世刚刚砍掉了全部由意大利男性组成的、负责监管梵蒂冈财务活动的机构,藉此与饱受洗钱丑闻困扰的前任划清界限。这是这位新教皇力图清理门户、对外开放的最新迹象,而教会或许是近几年来唯
一丑闻赛过华尔街的机构。 And as you might expect from a man who’s spent most of his first two years in the Vatican kicking over the traces, there are some surpris
ing choices in His Holiness’ replacement team – including a counter-terrorism expert from e W. Bush’s White House who once led . efforts to tr
ack down and confiscate Saddam Hussein’s illegal millions. 鉴于这位新教皇在梵蒂冈的最初两年大部分时间都在打破禁锢,大家或许可以料想得到,他选择的接替团队会有些出人意外——包括一位乔治oWo布什时期的白宫反恐专家。当年,在此君的带领下,美国最
终追踪、收了萨达姆o侯赛因数百万美元的非法资金。 Juan C. Zarate, now a senior adviser at the Washington, .-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, is one of
four people appointed Friday to the board of the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority (AIF), which was set up by Pope Benedict XVI to clean up th
e Vatican’s financial activities after a string of scandals. 现任哥伦比亚特区战略与国际研究中心(Center for Strategic and International Studies)高级顾问的胡安o萨拉特是上周五获得任命的梵蒂冈金