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CRIF and Centrale dei rischi (credit files)

In short

CRIF and the Centrale dei rischi (central credit register) of the Banca d'Italia collect information on the loans of a person or a business. You can only access your own data, and it is free: there is no public list in which to look someone else up.

The document at a glance

What it contains
Open and closed loans reported by lenders · payment history · recent credit applications · in the Centrale dei rischi, positions above the reporting threshold
What it is for
Checking what is recorded in your name before applying for a mortgage loan, and having a wrong report corrected.
Who can request it
Only the person concerned, or someone with their delegation: this is personal data, not a public register.
Where to request it
The data access form on the CRIF website for the private systems, the Banca d'Italia service for the Centrale dei rischi.
What it costs
Free: it is a right of access to your own personal data.
How long it takes
Days, and the reply arrives by email or by post.
Legal value
No: it is a statement of the data concerning you.
What it does not say There is no searchable list of bad payers. It is the most widespread misunderstanding in this whole list: nobody can look at someone else's credit position, and anyone promising to do so is selling something they cannot deliver.

You cannot do it on other people's data

People often search for “visura CRIF” to check someone before signing. Credit data is personal data and access is reserved to the person concerned: services that offer to look it up on third parties promise something that cannot be done.

When you do not need it

How to ask for a correction

If a report is wrong, you dispute it with the lender that made it and, in parallel, with the operator of the system. Retention periods are set by the code of conduct: a position closed regularly disappears by itself, and a wrong report must be removed on request, not waited out.

How to get it · not from us

You request it from whoever holds the data, and only about yourself

Who issues itCRIF and Banca d'Italia · Central Credit Register (Centrale dei rischi)
Go to the CRIF service →

checked on 28 July 2026

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On other people's data, nothing

No register says whether a person will pay. What can be checked before buying is on the property and on the company selling it, and it starts from the map.

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Costs, channels and access requirements are procedures of the body that issues the document, checked at source on 28 July 2026. Before you act, check on the body's website.