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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 paths, one vision
Tailored solutions.
Borealys supports financial institutions and SMEs 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
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
Growing what matters.
Mission
Borealys acts like the living network of the boreal forest: we connect financial institutions and SMEs to turn ambitions into growth, with the rigour and resilience of our northern signature, in Québec and internationally.
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.
What sets us apart
Dual perspective
Experts who understand financial institutions and businesses from the inside.
From strategy to action
From recommendations through to implementation and operations.
An exceptional network
Senior experts with proven track records at major Canadian commercial banks (TD, National Bank, Sun Life, Desjardins) and multilateral institutions (World Bank Group/IFC, EIB, KfW, FMO, others).
Key skills
Proven expertise in business lending, business transfer, mergers and acquisitions, the cooperative model, risk management, and gender and ESG dimensions.
Québec and international
A French-speaking, Canadian signature, recognized and respected internationally.
30+
years of experience
30+
countries across 4 continents
50+
mandates delivered
3
working languages
References
They placed their trust in our experts.
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
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
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