Willem van Aardt

Chief Executive Officer, Finbond

Willem van Aardt is Chief Executive Officer of Finbond, in the role since 2003.

Finbond Group is a JSE-listed lender in Pretoria that runs short-term loans and a mutual bank in South Africa, plus a US lending business. Under van Aardt it listed on the JSE in 2007 and received its mutual banking licence in 2012.

In the job

  1. Finbond announced that its subsidiary King Loan Finance had agreed to buy Kitsismart and KWT Finance. Source

  2. Finbond announced that a subsidiary would buy a majority stake in Benefits Bouquet for R116 million. Source

Career before

  1. 1998-Co-founder and executive director, Thuthukani Group
  2. 2003-Founder and chief executive officer, Finbond Group

Education

B Proc (1995) and LLM (1997), University of Pretoria; doctorate in public law, North-West University (2005)

Sources

  1. stockanalysis.com
  2. sharedata.co.za
  3. 24-7pressrelease.com
  4. senspdf.jse.co.za
  5. filingreader.com

Facts last checked 3 November 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

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