FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis gestures as he greets Scouts at Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, August 3, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has approved new statutes for the Vatican Bank, making an external audit obligatory and introducing other changes to bolster reforms that have turned around the once scandal-ridden institution.
The statutes, approved in a papal document released by the Vatican on Saturday, cap more than six years of changes at the bank since Francis was elected in 2013, since when he has made reform of the bank one of his priorities.
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