
From the intuition and vision of a single man to the present day

Ponzi is a family name linked to the world of investigations since the 1950s, when it was established by the well-known Italian investigator and criminologist “Tom” Ponzi.
Following an initial period of professional affirmation lasting more than a decade, with consolidated results both nationally and internationally, in the late seventies the brand risked jeopardising its reputation and fame due to judicial proceedings involving Tom himself, resolved a few years later with the criminologist’s complete acquittal.
Thanks to Francesco Ponzi – son of Angelo, grandson of Tom and founder in 1979 of PONZI & Co. SRL, the Ponzi family’s first limited company that later became PONZI SpA in 1982 – the brand name was kept commercially alive, regaining its fame and respectability not just in the field of corporate and private investigations, but also and above all in the field of financial and asset investigations for debt collection purposes.
Different family members gave rise to different entities in terms of type of work, size, organisation and services: “There is me, and then there is the small circle of relatives, mostly concerned with carrying out personal and marriage investigations,” said Francesco to describe the relatives who seek to identify themselves with Tom Ponzi.
Francesco Ponzi’s business philosophy evolved over time, adapting its core values and organisational methods to the evolving social and economic context. As a result, in the early noughties he set up PONZI & ASSOCIATI Srl. Together with the existing PONZI SpA, the new company formed the PONZI GROUP, whose experience and professionalism offered a unique solution to every need of the various reference sectors: banking, insurance and legal professions in general.
For seventy years, the Group has had its registered office in Milan, in C.so Monforte 9, to which further offices have been added in Rome, Pescara, London, Dubai and Miami.
Francesco Ponzi has been the Group’s legal representative for forty years, with his sons Alessandro, Riccardo, Stefano and Massimo becoming the third Ponzi generation to enter the company between the late nineties and the early noughties.
In 2022, PONZI SpA became “Gruppo Investigativo PONZI SpA”, officially confirming the brand’s continuity and tradition.
The Group currently produces approximately 350,000 information dossiers and more than 700,000 NPL analyses per year.
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