RY files 4.25% Callable Fixed-Rate Notes maturing Jul-2026
Rhea-AI Filing Summary
Royal Bank of Canada ("RY") has filed a pricing supplement for a small, $3.165 million tranche of Redeemable Fixed Rate Notes under its Senior Global Medium-Term Notes, Series J program.
Key economic terms:
- Coupon: 4.25% fixed, paid on 30 Sep 2025, 30 Dec 2025, 30 Mar 2026, 30 Jun 2026 and at maturity (stub period).
- Tenor: Issued 30 Jun 2025; maturity 30 Jul 2026 (≈13 months).
- Redemption: Callable at issuer’s option, in whole only, on 30 Dec 2025 and each subsequent interest payment date with 10 business-day notice; redemption price equals par plus accrued interest.
- Denomination: $1,000 minimum; CUSIP 78014RF54.
- Pricing: 100.00% offer price; 0.10% underwriting discount; 99.90% net proceeds to issuer.
- Day-count: 30/360; Calculation Agent: RBC Capital Markets, LLC.
Risk highlights (as disclosed):
- Senior unsecured obligations subject to Royal Bank of Canada credit risk.
- Early-call risk could force reinvestment at lower rates if the notes are redeemed.
- No exchange listing; secondary liquidity may be limited and involve wide bid/ask spreads.
- Embedded costs (underwriting, hedging) may reduce secondary market value.
The notes are not insured by CDIC or FDIC, are not bail-inable, and are offered only where lawful. Investors should review the full prospectus, prospectus supplement and product supplement referenced in the filing for additional details and risk factors.
Positive
- 4.25% fixed coupon provides predictable interest payments over a short 13-month horizon.
- Principal repaid at par if held to maturity or called, subject to RBC creditworthiness.
Negative
- Issuer call option from December 2025 may end the investment early and at par value only.
- Senior unsecured credit exposure; payments depend on Royal Bank of Canada’s ability to pay.
- No exchange listing and very small issue size could result in illiquid secondary trading.
Insights
TL;DR — 4.25% short-dated callable note; credit and liquidity risks offset predictable coupon.
The filing describes a 13-month, senior unsecured RBC note offering a 4.25% fixed coupon. While the rate delivers steady income, the issuer retains a full call option beginning 30 Dec 2025, limiting upside and potentially shortening duration. Net proceeds are 99.90% of par, indicating modest issuance costs. Lack of listing and the small $3.165 million size suggest minimal secondary liquidity, so investors must be prepared to hold to maturity. Because the terms are straightforward and no material new financial information is provided, the disclosure is routine and neutral for the equity narrative, though relevant for fixed-income allocation decisions.
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Registration Statement No. 333-275898 Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2) | |
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Pricing Supplement Pricing Supplement dated June 26, 2025 to the Prospectus dated December 20, 2023, the Prospectus Supplement dated December 20, 2023 and the Product Supplement No. 1A dated May 16, 2024 |
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$3,165,000 |
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Royal Bank of Canada is offering the Redeemable Fixed Rate Notes (the “Notes”) described below.
| · | The Notes will accrue interest at the rate of 4.25% per annum, payable as described below. |
| · | We may redeem the Notes in whole, but not in part, as described under “Key Terms” below. |
| · | Any payments on the Notes are subject to our credit risk. |
| · | The Notes will not be listed on any securities exchange. |
CUSIP: 78014RF54
Investing in the Notes involves a number of risks. See “Selected Risk Considerations” beginning on page P-4 of this pricing supplement and “Risk Factors” in the accompanying prospectus, prospectus supplement and product supplement.
None of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), any state securities commission or any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of the Notes or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this pricing supplement. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. The Notes will not constitute deposits insured by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other Canadian or U.S. governmental agency or instrumentality. The Notes are not bail-inable notes and are not subject to conversion into our common shares under subsection 39.2(2.3) of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act.
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| Price to public(1) | 100.00% | $3,165,000 |
| Underwriting discounts and commissions(1) |
0.10% |
$3,165 |
| Proceeds to Royal Bank of Canada | 99.90% | $3,161,835 |
(1) RBC Capital Markets, LLC will purchase the Notes from us on the Issue Date at purchase prices between $998.80 and $1,000.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, and will pay all or a portion of its underwriting discount of up to $1.20 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to certain selected broker-dealers as a selling concession. Certain dealers who purchase the Notes for sale to certain fee-based advisory accounts and/or eligible institutional investors may forgo some or all of their selling concessions, fees or commissions. The public offering price for investors purchasing the Notes in these accounts and/or for an eligible institutional investor may be as low as $998.80 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes. See “Supplemental Plan of Distribution (Conflicts of Interest)” below.
RBC Capital Markets, LLC
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KEY TERMS
The information in this “Key Terms” section is qualified by any more detailed information set forth in this pricing supplement and in the accompanying prospectus, prospectus supplement and product supplement.
| Issuer: | Royal Bank of Canada |
| Underwriter: | RBC Capital Markets, LLC (“RBCCM”) |
| Minimum Investment: | $1,000 and minimum denominations of $1,000 in excess thereof |
| Pricing Date: | June 26, 2025 |
| Issue Date: | June 30, 2025 |
| Maturity Date:* | July 30, 2026 |
| Interest Rate: | 4.25% per annum |
| Interest Payment Dates:* | September 30, 2025, December 30, 2025, March 30, 2026, June 30, 2026 and the Maturity Date. The final interest period will be abbreviated and will begin on (and include) June 30, 2026 and end on (but exclude) the Maturity Date. If an Interest Payment Date is not a business day, interest will be paid on the next business day, without adjustment, and no additional interest will be paid in respect of the postponement. |
| Payment at Maturity: |
If the Notes are not redeemed at our option, we will pay you the principal amount, together with the applicable interest payment, on the Maturity Date. All payments on the Notes are subject to our credit risk. |
| Redemption: | The Notes are redeemable at our option, in whole, but not in part, on any Call Date upon 10 business days’ prior written notice. If we redeem the Notes, we will pay you the principal amount, together with the applicable interest payment, on the relevant Call Date. No further payments will be made on the Notes. |
| Call Dates:* | The Interest Payment Date scheduled to occur on December 30, 2025 and each Interest Payment Date thereafter |
| Day Count Convention: | 30 / 360 |
| Calculation Agent: | RBCCM |
* Subject to postponement. See “General Terms of the Notes—Postponement of a Payment Date” in the accompanying product supplement.
| P-2 | RBC Capital Markets, LLC |
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ADDITIONAL TERMS OF YOUR NOTES
You should read this pricing supplement together with the prospectus dated December 20, 2023, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement dated December 20, 2023, relating to our Senior Global Medium-Term Notes, Series J, of which the Notes are a part, and the product supplement no. 1A dated May 16, 2024. This pricing supplement, together with these documents, contains the terms of the Notes and supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous oral statements as well as any other written materials, including preliminary or indicative pricing terms, correspondence, trade ideas, structures for implementation, sample structures, fact sheets, brochures or other educational materials of ours.
We have not authorized anyone to provide any information or to make any representations other than those contained or incorporated by reference in this pricing supplement and the documents listed below. We take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. These documents are an offer to sell only the Notes offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in each such document is current only as of its date.
If the information in this pricing supplement differs from the information contained in the documents listed below, you should rely on the information in this pricing supplement.
You should carefully consider, among other things, the matters set forth in “Selected Risk Considerations” in this pricing supplement and “Risk Factors” in the documents listed below, as the Notes involve risks not associated with conventional debt securities. We urge you to consult your investment, legal, tax, accounting and other advisers before you invest in the Notes.
You may access these documents on the SEC website at www.sec.gov as follows (or if such address has changed, by reviewing our filings for the relevant date on the SEC website):
| · | Prospectus dated December 20, 2023: |
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000275/000119312523299520/d645671d424b3.htm
| · | Prospectus Supplement dated December 20, 2023: |
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000275/000119312523299523/d638227d424b3.htm
| · | Product Supplement No. 1A dated May 16, 2024: |
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000275/000095010324006777/dp211286_424b2-ps1a.htm
Our Central Index Key, or CIK, on the SEC website is 1000275. As used in this pricing supplement, “Royal Bank of Canada,” the “Bank,” “we,” “our” and “us” mean only Royal Bank of Canada.
| P-3 | RBC Capital Markets, LLC |
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SELECTED RISK CONSIDERATIONS
The Notes involve risks not associated with an investment in ordinary fixed rate notes. We urge you to consult your investment, legal, tax, accounting and other advisers before you invest in the Notes. Some of the risks that apply to an investment in the Notes are summarized below, but we urge you to read also the “Risk Factors” sections of the accompanying prospectus, prospectus supplement and product supplement. You should not purchase the Notes unless you understand and can bear the risks of investing in the Notes.
Risks Relating to the Terms and Structure of the Notes
| · | The Notes Are Subject to the Risk of an Early Redemption — We have the option to redeem the Notes on the Call Dates set forth above. It is more likely that we will redeem the Notes prior to the Maturity Date to the extent that the interest payable on the Notes is greater than the interest that would be payable on our other instruments of a comparable maturity, terms and credit rating trading in the market. If the Notes are redeemed prior to the Maturity Date, you may have to re-invest the proceeds in a lower rate environment, and you will not receive any further payments on the Notes. |
| · | Payments on the Notes Are Subject to Our Credit Risk, and Market Perceptions about Our Creditworthiness May Adversely Affect the Market Value of the Notes — The Notes are our senior unsecured debt securities, and your receipt of any amounts due on the Notes is dependent upon our ability to pay our obligations as they come due. If we were to default on our payment obligations, you may not receive any amounts owed to you under the Notes and you could lose your entire investment. In addition, any negative changes in market perceptions about our creditworthiness may adversely affect the market value of the Notes. |
Risks Relating to the Secondary Market for the Notes
| · | There May Not Be an Active Trading Market for the Notes; Sales in the Secondary Market May Result in Significant Losses — There may be little or no secondary market for the Notes. The Notes will not be listed on any securities exchange. RBCCM and our other affiliates may make a market for the Notes; however, they are not required to do so and, if they choose to do so, may stop any market-making activities at any time. Because other dealers are not likely to make a secondary market for the Notes, the price at which you may be able to trade your Notes is likely to depend on the price, if any, at which RBCCM or any of our other affiliates is willing to buy the Notes. Even if a secondary market for the Notes develops, it may not provide enough liquidity to allow you to easily trade or sell the Notes. We expect that transaction costs in any secondary market would be high. As a result, the difference between bid and ask prices for your Notes in any secondary market could be substantial. If you sell your Notes before maturity, you may have to do so at a substantial discount from the price that you paid for them, and as a result, you may suffer significant losses. The Notes are not designed to be short-term trading instruments. Accordingly, you should be able and willing to hold your Notes to maturity. |
| · | Certain Built-in Costs Are Likely to Adversely Affect the Market Value of the Notes — While the payment at maturity is based on the full principal amount of your Notes, the public offering price of the Notes includes the underwriting discount, our estimated profit and the estimated costs relating to our hedging of the Notes. As a result, assuming no change in market conditions or any other relevant factors, the price, if any, at which you may be able to sell your Notes prior to maturity may be less than your original purchase price, as any such sale price would not be expected to include the underwriting discount, our estimated profit or the hedging costs relating to the Notes. |
Risks Relating to Conflicts of Interest and Our Trading Activities
| · | Our and Our Affiliates’ Business and Trading Activities May Create Conflicts of Interest — You should make your own independent investigation of the merits of investing in the Notes. Our and our affiliates’ economic interests are potentially adverse to your interests as an investor in the Notes due to our and our affiliates’ business and trading activities, and we and our affiliates have no obligation to consider your interests in taking any actions that might affect the value of the Notes. Trading by us and our affiliates may adversely affect the market value of the Notes. See “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to Conflicts of Interest” in the accompanying product supplement. |
| P-4 | RBC Capital Markets, LLC |
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| · | RBCCM’s Role as Calculation Agent May Create Conflicts of Interest — As Calculation Agent, our affiliate, RBCCM, will make any determinations necessary to calculate any payments on the Notes. In making these determinations, the Calculation Agent may be required to make discretionary judgments. In making these discretionary judgments, the economic interests of the Calculation Agent are potentially adverse to your interests as an investor in the Notes, and any of these determinations may adversely affect any payments on the Notes. The Calculation Agent will have no obligation to consider your interests as an investor in the Notes in making any determinations with respect to the Notes. |
| P-5 | RBC Capital Markets, LLC |
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UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS
You should review carefully the section in the accompanying product supplement entitled “United States Federal Income Tax Considerations,” focusing particularly on the section entitled “—Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders—Notes Treated as Debt Instruments—General.” The following discussion, when read in combination with “United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” in the accompanying product supplement, constitutes the full opinion of our counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, regarding the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of owning and disposing of the Notes. This discussion assumes that you purchased the Notes for cash in the original issuance at the stated issue price and does not address other circumstances specific to you. In the opinion of our counsel, which is based on representations provided by us, it is reasonable to treat the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes as debt instruments that are issued without original issue discount. You should consult your tax adviser regarding the U.S. federal income tax consequences of an investment in the Notes in your particular circumstances, as well as tax consequences arising under the laws of any state, local or non-U.S. taxing jurisdiction.
SUPPLEMENTAL PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION (CONFLICTS OF INTEREST)
After the initial offering of the Notes, the public offering price of the Notes may change.
RBCCM or another of its affiliates or agents may use this pricing supplement in the initial sale of the Notes. In addition, RBCCM or another of our affiliates may use this pricing supplement in a market-making transaction in the Notes after their initial sale. Unless we or our agent informs the purchaser otherwise in the confirmation of sale, this pricing supplement is being used in a market-making transaction.
For additional information about the settlement cycle of the Notes, see “Plan of Distribution” in the accompanying prospectus. For additional information as to the relationship between us and RBCCM, see the section “Plan of Distribution—Conflicts of Interest” in the accompanying prospectus.
VALIDITY OF THE NOTES
In the opinion of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, as Canadian counsel to the Bank, the issue and sale of the Notes has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Bank in conformity with the indenture, and when the Notes have been duly executed, authenticated and issued in accordance with the indenture and delivered against payment therefor, the Notes will be validly issued and, to the extent validity of the Notes is a matter governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario or Québec, or the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, will be valid obligations of the Bank, subject to the following limitations: (i) the enforceability of the indenture may be limited by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act (Canada), the Winding-up and Restructuring Act (Canada) and bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium, arrangement or winding-up laws or other similar laws of general application affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally; (ii) the enforceability of the indenture is subject to general equitable principles, including the principle that the availability of equitable remedies, such as specific performance and injunction, may only be granted at the discretion of a court of competent jurisdiction; (iii) under applicable limitations statutes generally, including that the enforceability of the indenture will be subject to the limitations contained in the Limitations Act, 2002 (Ontario), and such counsel expresses no opinion as to whether a court may find any provision of the indenture to be unenforceable as an attempt to vary or exclude a limitation period under such applicable limitations statutes; (iv) rights to indemnity and contribution under the Notes or the indenture which may be limited by applicable law; and (v) courts in Canada are precluded from giving a judgment in any currency other than the lawful money of Canada and such judgment may be based on a rate of exchange in existence on a day other than the day of payment, as prescribed by the Currency Act (Canada). This opinion is given as of the date hereof and is limited to the laws of the Provinces of Ontario and Québec and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. In addition, this opinion is subject to customary assumptions about the trustee’s authorization, execution and delivery of the indenture and the genuineness of signatures and to such counsel’s reliance on the Bank and other sources as to certain factual matters, all as stated in the opinion letter of such counsel dated December 20, 2023, which has been filed as Exhibit 5.3 to the Bank’s Form 6-K filed with the SEC dated December 20, 2023. References to the “indenture” in this paragraph mean the Indenture as defined in the opinion of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP dated December 20, 2023, as further amended and supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture dated as of July 23, 2024.
| P-6 | RBC Capital Markets, LLC |
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In the opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, as special United States products counsel to the Bank, when the Notes offered by this pricing supplement have been issued by the Bank pursuant to the indenture, the trustee has made, in accordance with the indenture, the appropriate notation to the master note evidencing such Notes (the “master note”), and such Notes have been delivered against payment as contemplated herein, such Notes will be valid and binding obligations of the Bank, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, concepts of reasonableness and equitable principles of general applicability (including, without limitation, concepts of good faith, fair dealing and the lack of bad faith) and possible judicial or regulatory actions or applications giving effect to governmental actions or foreign laws affecting creditors’ rights, provided that such counsel expresses no opinion as to (i) the enforceability of any waiver of rights under any usury or stay law or (ii) the effect of fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or similar provision of applicable law on the conclusions expressed above. This opinion is given as of the date hereof and is limited to the laws of the State of New York. Insofar as the foregoing opinion involves matters governed by the laws of the Provinces of Ontario and Québec and the federal laws of Canada, you have received, and we understand that you are relying upon, the opinion of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Canadian counsel for the Bank, set forth above. In addition, this opinion is subject to customary assumptions about the trustee’s authorization, execution and delivery of the indenture and the authentication of the master note and the validity, binding nature and enforceability of the indenture with respect to the trustee, all as stated in the opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP dated May 16, 2024, which has been filed as an exhibit to the Bank’s Form 6-K filed with the SEC on May 16, 2024. References to the “indenture” in this paragraph mean the Indenture as defined in the opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP dated May 16, 2024, as further amended and supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture dated as of July 23, 2024.
| P-7 | RBC Capital Markets, LLC |