About Us
Our Story
Merchant West is one of the largest privately-owned providers of specialised financial solutions and advisory services to businesses and high net worth individuals in South Africa.
Founded in 1998, Merchant West provides tailor-made lending, wealth management, asset management and transactional solutions to businesses and high-net-worth individuals, with offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, George, Durban, Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth, Namibia, Botswana and North Carolina USA.
Certain companies in the Merchant West Group are licenced and authorised financial services providers.
Merchant West lending products extend to bespoke asset finance (across an extensive range of asset classes), fleet finance, working capital funding, property finance solutions and specialised finance.
Merchant West advisory products extend to investment strategies, private wealth management and treasury solutions.
Our Proud History
Business finance services and advisory service with a Difference
Our Purpose
To improve the well-being of our clients
Our Vision
We aspire to be the leading specialist financial services company in our chosen markets by providing tailor-made Financial Services for our customers.
Our Mission
To be the leading specialist Financial Services company by attracting and retaining talented staff, providing service excellence to our customers and partners, and creating value for our stakeholders.
Core Values
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Ambition
Our commitment and desire is to excel and succeed.
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Respect
With humility, we treat people the way we want to be treated.
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Integrity
We do the ethically right thing at the right time, all the time.
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Synergy
United, we work to exceed our goals.
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Enterprise
With imagination and initiative, we will find the solution and deliver the result.
Have a financing problem? We have the solution!
We assist South African businesses and individuals to unlock their full potential whilst growing with them every step of the way.