Founding Gold Partner: ProLend

Status of this badge

Current. This badge is issued and in force today.

Held by

ProLend

Badge family

Partnership

Recorded

17 September 2026

Code

PLA-B-FGP-0001

What this badge means

The organisation provided the funding or operational support that allowed the Association to be established, and holds the senior partnership tier. The relationship is disclosed on every page where the organisation appears.

What it does not mean

The Private Lending Association of South Africa is not a regulator, government body, financial adviser, lender or product provider. It does not arrange loans, accept deposits or guarantee any private-lending arrangement. A badge issued by the Association is a statement about a record it keeps, not a permission granted by anybody with authority to grant one.

The three things a badge can record

The constitution keeps membership, partnership and verification apart, and the badge programme mirrors that: there is no combined badge, and holding one says nothing about the other two. This badge records partnership only.

• Founding record. Records that the Association has confirmed, against its own founding documents, who somebody is and what founding position they hold. It is a question of fact about the Association's own constitution, not an assessment of anybody — which is why it does not run through the recognition review, and why it says nothing about competence, conduct or performance.
• Membership. Records that the holder participates in the Association. It is a fact about a relationship, not an assessment, and it requires no evidence beyond the membership record itself.
• Partnership. Records a disclosed commercial or supporting relationship with the Association. It is the one badge that money is involved in, which is exactly why it may never be displayed in a way that reads as approval.
• Verification. Records that the published checks were completed and what they found. It is the only badge that rests on evidence, the only one that expires, and the only one the Association will withdraw.

Where this is recorded

See the Association’s record for ProLend →

If this badge is being displayed wrongly

If you have seen this badge used to suggest a guaranteed return, regulatory approval, or anything the record above does not support — or if it appears on a site whose holder is not ProLend — tell the Association. Misuse is a ground for withdrawal, and a withdrawn badge stops displaying wherever it is embedded from this domain.

Raise it through the complaints process → or write to complaints@privatelendingassociation.co.za quoting PLA-B-FGP-0001.

Check it for yourself

Nothing on this page asks to be taken on trust. The registers are public, the methodology is published, and the record this badge points at states its own limits.

How the badge programme works · The public registers · The methodology