Michael Borish & Company, Inc.
Experience
Michael Borish & Company, Inc. has direct experience in all major markets and in more than 60 countries.
Examples of past and current training and course delivery engagements include:
- Lead Instructor (2025) for banker training delivered in Dubai. Teaching a course to bankers from the Middle East and Africa on how to use Artificial Intelligence and Digital Applications to more effectively target SME Banking.
- Lead Instructor (2025) in Business History delivered in India. Teaching two business history courses at the Indian Institute of Management in Rohtak, India covering national, regional and global economic and business history since the 1700s.
- Project Management Lead (2017-2019) for Export Development Canada MBA outreach program with University of Toronto Rotman School of Business and Ottawa University Telfer School of Business. Assisted MBA students and professors on directed research projects on multiple economic and finance topics related to enterprise competitiveness and international trade.
- Lead Instructor (2016) for banker training delivered in Thailand. Trained 30 bankers and regulators from all regions of Asia in SME credit management; regulatory risk issues; bank marketing; data analysis for retail banking; and product design and delivery strategies.
- Lead Instructor (2015) in SME credit management and marketing for training delivered in South Africa. Trained 25 bankers and regulators from Africa and Middle East in Basel II/III context for SME finance (lending and funding); customer-oriented marketing tools; technology channels and data systems; and lessons from rural/micro-finance for loan product design and delivery.
- Lead Instructor (2014) in SME credit risk management training in Malaysia. Trained 25 bankers and regulators from South and East Asia in Basel II/III capital and liquidity frameworks; unsecured and secured lending; and asset quality, provisioning and risk-adjusted capital requirements.
- Lead Trainer (2013) for credit risk management training in Bangladesh. Led multiple multi-day seminars and workshops at the Bangladesh Central Bank Training Institute. Trained banking supervisors in differing regulatory and supervisory approaches; SME credit risk management; early warning systems; bank resolution; and credit scoring systems. Trained bankers in credit and financial risk management, and credit scoring systems. Some training sessions were jointly attended by regulators and bankers.
- Lecturer/Instructor (2008-2012) in Bosnia-Herzegovina for regulators and bankers as part of ongoing advisory services for implementation of Basel II strategy. Specific training delivered on credit risk issues; strengthening of systems for ongoing surveillance in support of underlying financial stability; and adherence to standards for eventual convergence with European Union requirements (as defined by the European Central Bank and Committee of European Banking Supervisors).
- Lead Trainer (2010) in housing and mortgage finance for Real Estate Bank in Syria. Delivered training for lenders in market-based loan origination and underwriting practices; loan maintenance and review; loan pricing and fees; funding; asset-liability management; capital adequacy; and workout management for problem loans.
- Lead Consultant (2008) in Georgia (Caucasus) in development of a certified institutional banker training program for USAID and the International Executive Service Corps. Modules covered all facets of modern-day banking and was modeled on training programs in the US, UK and Switzerland.
- Lead Trainer (2007) for mortgage lending training sponsored by the State (central) Bank of Pakistan and IFC (World Bank) for bankers, mortgage lenders and regulators in Pakistan. Modules consisted of loan origination and underwriting practices; loan maintenance and review; pricing and fees; funding and securitization; asset-liability management; capital adequacy; and workout management for problem loans. Conventional and Islamic finance concepts were covered for application in Pakistan housing finance market.
- Lead Trainer (2005) in Vietnam for Banker Training Center and IFC (World Bank). Training seminars were based on materials specifically developed for the Center, focused on credit and portfolio risk management.
A full list of MBC’s more than 200 consulting and advisory assignments since 1996 can be made available.