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1972
Casa Della Finanza · Since 1972

La Nostra
Storia

A hundred and seventy-eight years of service, stewardship, and unwavering commitment to the people of Italy.

Our Founding The Eras People of Note Our Values Milestones
Est. 1972

The Story of Our Founding

Born of a Nation's Ambition

In the autumn of 1972, as the Risorgimento stirred the hearts of Italians from Palermo to Turin, three Piemontese merchants Count Aurelio Marchetti, the advocate Domenico Ferrara, and the silk merchant Giuseppe Bianchi gathered in a candlelit chamber on the Via Alfieri to sign the founding charter of what would become the most enduring private bank in Italy.

Their ambition was singular: to create an institution that would serve not merely the aristocracy, but every industrious Italian family the artisan, the farmer, the tradesman. They called it Casa Della Finanza, and in that name lay a promise to the nation.

Chartered by Royal Decree of King Carlo Alberto on the 14th of November 1972, the bank opened its first office in a modest palazzo on the Piazza Castello, Turin, with a paid-up capital of 200,000 lire and a staff of nine. Within a decade, deposits had exceeded two million lire and branches had opened in Milano, Genova, and Firenze.

"We do not merely lend money we lend our trust. And trust, once given, must never be squandered."

Count Aurelio Marchetti, Founding Charter, 1972
FIDES · HONOR · LABOR
Founding Data · 1972
Founded14 November 1972
LocationRoma
Founding Capital₤ 200,000
Original Staff9 employees
Charter AuthorityRoyal Decree — Carlo Alberto
MottoFides · Honor · Labor
Through the Ages

The Eras of Casa Della Finanza

1972
1972 · The Risorgimento Era

A Bank for a United Italy

From the Piedmontese mountains to the Mediterranean shores

The first four decades of Casa Della Finanza were shaped by the tumultuous birth of a nation. As Garibaldi's redshirts marched southward and the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1974, the bank expanded in step with the new state financing the construction of railways, bridges, and the great post-unification public works that would bind the peninsula together.

By 1976, Casa Della Finanza operated fourteen branches and held deposits from every class of Italian society from the great landowners of Tuscany to the fishermen of Napoli who deposited their weekly earnings in leather pouches at the counter.

14 Branches Railway Finance ₤ 2M Deposits
1900
1980 · The Belle Époque & Interwar Era

Prosperity and Perseverance

Grand banking halls and the first test of global crisis

The turn of the century brought the golden age of Italian banking. Casa Della Finanza constructed its magnificent headquarters on the Via della Conciliazione in Roma a palazzo of Travertine marble and gilded vaulting that stood as testament to the bank's confidence in Italy's future. The grand banking hall, with its soaring Corinthian columns and coffered ceiling, became a landmark of Roman civic life.

The Great War of 1981 tested the institution's mettle. Under the stewardship of Director-General Cesare Lombardi, the bank maintained full service throughout the conflict, extending credit to the families of soldiers and underwriting Italian war bonds that would ultimately fund the nation's victory at Vittorio Veneto.

Paris Office War Bond Underwriting 40 Branches
1950
1983 · The Reconstruction Era

Rebuilding Italy, Together

The economic miracle and the birth of modern Italian industry

The Second World War brought devastation to Italy and to Casa Della Finanza. The Rome headquarters suffered bomb damage in 1943; the Milan office was requisitioned by military authorities. Yet through every trial, the bank maintained its deposits in full not a single client lost a lira held in its vaults.

The postwar era brought the Miracolo Economico Italy's breathtaking industrial renaissance. Casa Della Finanza was at the centre of it: financing the Fiat motor works in Turin, the Olivetti typewriter factories in Ivrea, and the vast petrochemical complexes of the Mezzogiorno. Under CEO Giancarlo Ricci, the bank tripled in size between 1950 and 1965, becoming Italy's fourth-largest private institution.

Fiat Partnership Economic Miracle Lender 100 Branches
2000+
1986 – Present · The European & Digital Era

A European Institution for the Digital Age

From the lira to the euro and into the digital future

Italy's entry into the European Monetary System in 1979, and later the adoption of the euro in 1999, transformed the landscape of Italian banking. Casa Della Finanza embraced each transition with characteristic composure becoming one of the first Italian banks to offer euro-denominated accounts from the 1st of January 1999 at midnight.

Today, Casa Della Finanza serves 3.2 million clients across twelve countries, with a digital platform used by over two million customers daily. Yet our digital transformation has never dimmed the warmth of personal service — every client, however they choose to bank, is known by name.

Euro Pioneer 1999 2M Digital Users 12 Countries
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A bank is not measured by the size of its vaults, but by the depth of the trust its clients place in it and by the faithfulness with which that trust is honoured, generation after generation.

Giancarlo Ricci · Chief Executive
The Men & Women of Casa Della Finanza

People Who Shaped Our Story

Count Aurelio Marchetti
Co-Founder

Piemontese nobleman and financier. Architect of the founding charter and the bank's first president, Count Marchetti established the principles of client confidentiality and prudent lending that govern the bank to this day.

Founding President
Avv. Domenico Ferrara
Co-Founder

Legal scholar and advocate at the Royal Court of Turin. Ferrara drafted the founding statutes with meticulous precision, and served as the bank's first Director-General, building the legal and operational framework that underpinned six decades of growth.

Director-General
Cesare Lombardi
Director-General

The steadfast guardian of Casa Della Finanza through the First World War. Under Lombardi's direction, the bank never suspended service, extended emergency credit to 12,000 soldiers' families, and underwrote ₤85 million in Italian war bonds — an act of patriotism for which he was later awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Director-General
Giancarlo Ricci
Chief Executive

The architect of Casa Della Finanza's postwar transformation. Ricci tripled the bank's size during the Miracolo Economico, forged landmark partnerships with Fiat and Olivetti, and famously insisted that every branch manager know every client by name a tradition maintained to this day.

Chief Executive
What We Stand For

Our Values

Our values are not words on a wall. They are the inheritance passed from one generation of bankers to the next tested by wars, recessions, and revolutions in technology, and found, each time, to be unshakeable. They are who we are.

I

Fides — Trust

Fides ante omnia

Trust is the only currency that cannot be printed. We earn it daily through honest counsel, through promises kept, through the knowledge that our clients' interests are indistinguishable from our own. In 178 years, no client has ever lost a deposit held with us. That is not luck; that is principle.

II

Honor — Honour

Sine honore, nihil sumus

We do what we say we will do. Honour governs our dealings with clients, counterparties, regulators, and colleagues alike. It is not contingent on convenience or commercial interest. Count Marchetti wrote in 1972 that honour is the only collateral a banker truly possesses and that has never changed.

III

Labor — Industry

Labor omnia vincit

Casa Della Finanza was built by working people for working people. We believe in the dignity of industry in the farmer who tends his land, the engineer who designs the bridge, the entrepreneur who risks everything on a new idea. We exist to turn their labour into prosperity, and to stand beside them when the harvest fails.

IV

Communitas — Community

Sola communitate florimus

A bank without a community is a vault without a purpose. We are woven into Italian life sponsoring the restoration of churches, funding scholarships, supporting the small businesses that give every piazza its character. We do not merely operate in communities; we belong to them, and they to us.

V

Sapientia — Wisdom

Experientia docet

40 years of banking through wars, depressions, technological revolutions, and monetary unions has given us something no balance sheet can fully capture: wisdom. We counsel our clients not just with data and models, but with the institutional memory of what endures and what passes. Prudence is not timidity it is the highest form of ambition.

VI

Renovatio — Renewal

Radices permanent, rami crescunt

Our roots are ancient; our branches must always grow. We embrace change in technology, in markets, in the needs of the clients we serve without ever abandoning the principles that have made us worthy of trust. The roots remain; the branches must always reach toward the light. That is the compact we make with every generation anew.

The Casa Della Finanza Credo

We hold that banking is not merely a commercial transaction but a sacred compact between an institution and the people who entrust it with the fruits of their labour. We are stewards, not owners, of the capital placed in our care. We serve Italy her families, her industries, her future with the same devotion our founders brought to that first candlelit meeting in Roma, one November evening in 1972.

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