Tunisia Microfinance institution
Strategy · Finance · Transformation
Setting direction, structuring growth, and turning ambitions into results.
Helping SMEs and the institutions that finance them grow. In Québec and internationally.
Two worlds, one vision
Tailored solutions for every player in the economy.
Borealys supports financial institutions and SMEs & businesses by understanding their realities, challenges, and objectives. Two complementary perspectives to create lasting opportunities.
Financial institutions
Strategic partnerships for lasting impact.
We help financial institutions better understand markets, assess opportunities, and structure financing solutions suited to the realities of SMEs and businesses.
Discover our solutionsSMEs & businesses
Accelerate your growth with a committed partner.
We support SMEs and businesses in their development, transformation, and the management of their financial, strategic, and organizational challenges.
Discover our solutionsWhy Borealys
The link between ambitions and results.
Our experts have led on both sides of the table: within leading Canadian financial institutions and alongside SMEs and international businesses. We understand what each side expects from the other, and we stay involved through implementation.
Dual perspective
Experts who understand both financial institutions and businesses.
From strategy to action
Recommendations designed to become concrete, measurable results.
Québec and international
A French-Canadian perspective, backed by international experience.
30+
years of experience
30+
countries across 4 continents
50+
mandates delivered
3
working languages
References
Our experts have supported or collaborated with these organizations throughout their journeys.
Solutions
Solutions to move your organization forward.
Five core solutions, each framed as a client outcome. Our areas of expertise then show how each one gets delivered.
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Better serve and finance SMEs
Win market share in the SME segment, profitably and inclusively, with risks under control.
02/
Design and deploy financing solutions
Classic and blended instruments: risk-sharing, guarantees, quasi-equity, blended finance.
03/
Grow and structure your business
360° diagnostic, fractional CFO services, modeling, M&A, and investment readiness.
04/
Strengthen risk management and governance
COSO ERM, ISO 31000 and 27001, internal control, compliance including Québec's Law 25, cooperative and share-capital governance.
05/
Succeed in your digital and organizational transformation
Core banking, CRM, LOS and ERP, data and reporting, cybersecurity, and change management.
PositioningTwo ecosystems.
Two ecosystems.
One connection.
Financial institutions want to serve SMEs profitably and under control. SMEs want financing and growth. Borealys stands between the two and speaks both languages.
Financial institutions
Banks, microfinance institutions, insurers, development lenders, and development finance institutions.
Borealys
The link: methodology, products, governance, and implementation, on both sides of the table.
SMEs & businesses
Share-capital companies, cooperatives, and collective enterprises, growing or transforming.
Track record
Mandates delivered. Results achieved.
Every case study follows the same structure: the challenge, the intervention, the measured result.
Québec Collective enterprise
Preparing a cooperative for a change in scale
International Development lender
Operationalizing an SME credit line and its guarantee
Trajectory
Growing what matters.
From initial structuring to transformation, we guide organizations through the steps that build lasting growth.
Ambition
Setting direction and scenarios
Structuring
Finance, organization, data
Growth
Financing and scaling
Resilience
Risk, governance, compliance
Impact
Measured, lasting results
Team
Expertise that knows the ground.
Credible senior advisors, mobilized according to each mandate’s needs, each with their own focus.
Francois Rancourt
Managing Partner, Founder
Annik Giguère
Partner, Project Management
Nancy Hammond
Senior Advisor
Mehdi Mahmoudi
Senior Advisor, based in Tunis
Contact
Your next strategic step deserves the right partner.
Get in touch. An expert from our seasoned team will be ready to listen and support you from the roots to the summit.
Let’s talk about your project