Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Serious questions are also being raised about his judgment and competence, specifically about his willingness to let the Vatican bank and its good name be used by international wheeler-dealers. At least eleven other official inquiries into Banco Ambrosiano's affairs are under way, in Italy, Britain, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Bahamas and Peru. As those investigations stumble forward, the archbishop's once promising career is endangered, and the affair threatens to become an embarrassment for Pope John Paul...
...years, Calvi was determined to transform it into a major international financial institution from a relatively small regional bank with strong religious overtones (until ten years ago, would-be shareholders had to present baptismal certificates to prove their Catholicism). One of his initial steps was to form a Luxembourg holding company, Compendium, which later became Banco Ambrosiano Holding. The advantage of a foreign subsidiary: it is not subject to Italy's banking regulations. Calvi's next moves were to use the Luxembourg holding company to set up banks in Switzerland, the Bahamas, Peru and Nicaragua, and companies...
...salvage what they could of the loans taken out by the bank. Half of the $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion has been guaranteed by seven Italian banks, and will apparently be repaid. The other half, though, is owed to creditors by Ambrosiano's subsidiaries in Nassau and Luxembourg. But the Luxembourg affiliate has been declared in default, and operations by the Bahamian subsidiary have been suspended by banking authorities in that country. Italian government officials and foreign creditors are arguing that the Vatican bank has at least a moral responsibility to honor the entire debt, since...
Effects of the Italian bank scandal have quickly rippled through the Western financial community. Last week the assets of Banco Ambrosiano's Luxembourg subsidiary were frozen after two British banks called loans totaling $125 million. That, in turn, has put in jeopardy up to $400 million in loans held by some 250 banks, including Bank of America...
Manufacturers Hanover. The Gotthard Bank, a small Swiss bank, was immediately endangered because 45% of its shares are held by the Luxembourg subsidiary of Banco Ambrosiano. Officials of the Gotthard Bank are now looking for someone to buy the Ambrosiano stock...