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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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Russell B. Syme

Russell B. is a member of:
Team Syme - Steckler

Assistant Vice President, Commercial Financing

russell.syme@firstnational.ca

778.327.5712

Trust builder. Dependable advisor. Educator.

Russell has been a part of the First National Financial commercial team for the past eight years, and has originated more than $1 billion in commercial financing.

For Russell, building and sustaining trust creates a relationship where knowledge, experience and goals can be shared.

Russell sees himself as more than a lender. He’s a specialist that advises. He helps clients make decisions by providing analysis and trusted opinions. He educates on the financing process to give clients more objectivity in their evaluations.

Working at First National, Russell feels confident and encouraged to play a dual role for clients. He’s the lender that gets the deals done quickly and competently, but he’s also the trusted business consultant that puts clients, their goals and their growth first.