# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001000275
**File Stem:** 0001214659-25-015680
**Filing Date:** 2025-10
**Character Count:** 6150
**Document Hash:** d0adebe2bae80694a88afe7c44be7895
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001214659-25-015680.hdr.sgml**: 20251031

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001214659-25-015680

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8 POS

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251031

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251031

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20251031

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001000275
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** COMMERCIAL BANKS, NEC [6029]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 135357855
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** A6
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1031

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-252536
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251440539

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **ADDRESS IS A NON US LOCATION:** YES
- **STREET 1:** ROYAL BANK PLAZA
- **STREET 2:** 200 BAY STREET
- **CITY:** TORONTO
- **PROVINCE COUNTRY:** A6
- **ZIP:** M5J 2J5
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 212-437-9267

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **ADDRESS IS A NON US LOCATION:** YES
- **STREET 1:** ROYAL BANK PLAZA
- **STREET 2:** 200 BAY STREET
- **CITY:** TORONTO
- **PROVINCE COUNTRY:** A6
- **ZIP:** M5J 2J5

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** ROYAL BANK OF CANADA \
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19950908

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 31, 2025**

**Registration No. 333-252536**

**UNITED STATES<br> SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to**

**Form S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-252536**

**Royal Bank of Canada**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)**

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| **Canada**<br> **(Province or other jurisdiction of**<br> **incorporation or organization)** | **13-5357855**<br> **(IRS Employer**<br> **ID Number)** |

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**200 Bay Street<br> Royal Bank Plaza<br> Toronto, Ontario<br> M5J 2J5**

 **Royal Bank of Canada US Wealth Accumulation Plan**

**Royal Bank of Canada Employee Deferred Advantage Plan**

**Cogency Global<br> 122 East 42nd Street 18th Floor<br> New York, NY 10168<br> (212) 947-7200** <br> (Name and address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

**with a copy to:**

**Benjamin H. Weiner**

**Sullivan & Cromwell LLP**

**1700 New York Avenue NW**

**Washington, DC 20006**

**Tel: (202) 956-7574**

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").

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| Large accelerated filer | ⌧ | Accelerated filer | ◻ |
| Non-accelerated filer | ◻ | Smaller reporting company | ◻ |
|  |  | Emerging growth company | ◻ |

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ◻

**EXPLANATORY NOTE**

**DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD Securiteis Pertaining to the Royal Bank of Canada US Wealth Accumulation Plan and the Royal Bank of Canada Employee Deferred Advantage Plan**

Royal Bank of Canada. (the "Bank") is filing this post-effective amendment (this "Post-Effective Amendment") to deregister all remaining unsold securities previously registered under the Bank's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-252536), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, 2021 (the "Registration Statement"), registering $250,000,000 of Deferred Compensation Obligations (and an indeterminate number of Common Shares associated therewith) issuable under the Royal Bank of Canada US Wealth Accumulation Plan and the Royal Bank of Canada Employee Deferred Advantage Plan (collectively, the "Plans"). Prior to the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment, the Bank filed a new registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-287828) (the "New Registration Statement") to register securities available to be offered and sold pursuant to the Plans.

In connection with the filing of the New Registration Statement, the Bank has terminated any and all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Pursuant to undertakings contained in the foregoing Registration Statement, to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of each offering, the Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment to remove from registration any and all securities of the Registrant registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Victoria, province of British Columbia, Canada, on October 31, 2025.

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| Royal Bank of Canada | Royal Bank of Canada |
| By: | /s/ Tim Mark |
|  | Name: Tim Mark |
|  | Title: Vice President, Pension & Benefits |

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No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

**AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned has signed this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement solely in the capacity of the duly authorized representative of the Registrant in the United States, in the city of New York, New York, on October 31, 2025.

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| /s/ John Penn |
| Name: John Penn |
| Title: Assistant General Counsel & Managing Director, RBC U.S. Head of Regulatory Law |

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