VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Sud
Rome, February 12 – A credit-card and ATM block that has plagued visitors to the Vatican since January is over, a spokesman said Tuesday. “The system of electronic payments with ATMs and credit cards has been reactivated,” spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said. He said the new service was “guaranteed” by a deal with Swiss company Aduno Sa. On January 1 the Bank of Italy froze all credit-card and ATM transactions inside the Vatican City over its failure to fully implement international anti-money-laundering standards. In late December, the central bank denied Deutsche Bank Italy, the Vatican’s former provider of electronic-payment services, a permit because of the Vatican’s shortcomings in financial controls and oversight.
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