And he replaced the Jesuit Lombardi with former Fox News correspondent and Opus Dei Greg Burke as head of his press office. 
While the Vatican Bank was forced to make audited public financial statements during Benedict's reign by the international financial community, the vast majority of the pope’s assets (investments, commercial properties, gold and currency reserves) are held by APSA, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. According to testimony by one of its officials to Italian prosecutors, APSA acts as a “parallel bank,” providing accounts to outsiders, participating in global markets, etc.