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Better people make better lending

We lend billions of dollars to commercial real estate projects every year. But it’s not just capital that distinguishes us. It’s the empowered nature of our workforce. Our advisors are experienced experts whose sole focus is to deliver financing strategies that enable you to achieve greater success.

Our Better Lending culture – three decades in the making – is built on the skill that comes from pure mortgage lending. Because we start from a position of knowledge about you, your project, and your market, we can design solutions that are fit for your purpose. And because accountability is in our nature, we meet our commitments.

Better by design, better by nature, better for you in every corner of the country.

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Kiyara Lalwawni

Kiyara is a member of:
Team Syme - Steckler

Analyst, Commercial Financing

kiyara.lalwani@firstnational.ca

Meticulous. Curious. Methodical.

“I add value by combining my technical capabilities with my creative mind to find the right balance of quantitative and qualitative analysis for every deal.”

Kiyara joined the First National team in July 2024, after completing an internship on the Customer Insights team at a large developer. Equally cerebral and creative, Kiyara has gained a myriad of perspectives from her global upbringing. When working through deals, she is both meticulous and methodical so she can work quickly to meet aggressive deadlines while ensuring the accuracy and quality of her work. Being new to the industry, Kiyara understands how important it is to be curious and ask questions so she can learn, build knowledge and be clear on what is being asked of her.

When she’s not adding value for First National borrowers, Kiyara explores her creative side through drawing, painting and playing piano, samples the newest restaurants and gets her vitamin D fix outside in the sun.