RBC then acquired Los Angeles–based City National Bank in 2015 to serve American clients.

On November 2, 1990, Peoples Bancorp and Planters Corp., of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, merged to form Centura Bank.

[2] Over 1000 employees continued to work in Rocky Mount as of 2011, in such areas as information technology and mortgage processing.

RBC continued to grow in the Southeast after acquiring 39 branches of Birmingham, Alabama-based AmSouth Bank on March 9, 2007.

At the time PNC acquired RBC, it had a total of 5,000 employees with 500 located in the Raleigh area.

The company was subsequently sold to a mortgage loan officer for $500 and quickly incorporated in New York.

The company alleged in a lawsuit filed in Fresno County that the sale of all the assets for a mere $500 was not adequate and was done to "hinder, delay and defraud the creditors," including RBC.

Nine major lenders, including RBC, are owed a combined total of $196 million on Dunmore Homes' 26 new-home communities, according to the builder.