Education
He graduated cum laude from the Honors Economics program of the Ateneo de Manila University in 1978.
He graduated cum laude from the Honors Economics program of the Ateneo de Manila University in 1978.
Borlongan was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men for domestic banking in 1993. In the 1980s, he became president of Urban Bank, which he turned into one of the largest banks in the Philippines during his long tenure there. Court cases, however, forced the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to shut it down on April 26, 2000.
Over the years that followed, the numerous court cases that came upon Borlongan, including charges of economic sabotage--then punishable by the death penalty, and what he thought was his failure to obtain justice from those who he accused as allegedly responsible for Urban Bank"s permanent closure ultimately drove him into depression.