Drawn from a research library of 29,891 legal instruments, 64,044 current entries on five sanctions and export-control lists, 5,223 events and 107,260 data points from 33 official sources: 6,046 full texts retrieved and parsed in full, and 13,864 readings of instruments, 487 of them full-text readings by a model. Library totals, not items judged for Royal Bank of Canada.
Demo edition, built by Strature from public sources. Not commissioned by, reviewed by or affiliated with Royal Bank of Canada.
Royal Bank of Canada: a Strature Exposure demo edition.
Choose a countryEvery country in the current layer, with its count.
Country by fact classEvery money and operating country, against five classes of fact: what was read, and what was found.
Three totals for one book, printed, not reconciled
Problems with no assessed change in this view
What changed since the last edition, the group's entities, what was read, the downloads and the method.
Reference material, folded. Open any panel; the gaps each one states stay printed inside it.
What changed
Entities, research and watch lines
DownloadsTake the data with you, as it stands on this page.
Method: how this page was made, and what it does not claimSources, dates, status rules, groupings, the source marks and the limits of this edition.
Royal Bank of Canada: one edition, item by item.
41 changes assessed: ten in the Act status, 27 in Canada and 14 in the United States.
This section and the four after it show the edition as it was printed on 28 Sep 2026, with every window counted from that date. The demo above counts the same 41 items as of 8 Oct 2026, after the corrections it prints, so its counts differ: there, dates that have passed are counted apart from Act. Neither count is a finding about RBC.
RBC is the subject of the analysis, not a client. No endorsement by RBC is implied.
Canada alone is more than half of the bank’s revenue, so a Canadian rule carries more weight in its exposure picture than an American one, and one from elsewhere less again.
What one edition read, and what it kept.
Sources and coverage: fifteen sources, and the places not yet read
Fifteen sources for RBC’s footprint: the US Federal Register, the Canada Gazette, OSFI, FINTRAC, Parliament’s bill register, CBSA customs notices, CanadaBuys tenders, EUR-Lex, UK legislation and others. One document is often returned by several searches, so 34,333 rows read become 7,607 distinct documents. Of those, 210 reach RBC, 3,196 were set aside with a reason, 4,219 are not yet judged, 8 were unreadable and 1 awaits a person; 27 laws appear twice, kept then withdrawn at writing with a reason (210 + 3,196 + 4,219 + 8 + 1 = 7,634 = 7,607 + 27). The funnel is drawn on the Exposure method page.
Zero in a place is not zero exposure: the thirteen places not read are named in the console, beside the items.
Figures: Strature Exposure, RBC edition of 28 Sep 2026, built from public sources. Revenue weights: RBC Annual Report 2025, Note 26, p.234.
When the rules fall due.
The exhibit is drawn from the edition’s own tables, with the source printed on the plate. The funnel from 34,333 rows to six front-page items is on the Exposure method page.
Six items are rules that took effect between 25 Mar and 25 Jun 2026; four are comment periods closing by 14 Oct. Five more fall due from 1 Nov to 9 Nov 2026 and one on 31 Dec 2026. The other 25 have no date to act by in this edition, so they are watched; eight of them carry an earlier date, before the edition date, printed on the item.
The console, in use, in two and a half minutes.
When and where the rules fall due, Canada against the United States by revenue, the places not read, the seven team views, and one item opened to its official text.
Figures: Strature Exposure, RBC edition of 28 Sep 2026, built from public sources.
Read the transcript
Regulation arrives as a flood. For one edition, Strature Exposure read 34,333 rows from fifteen official sources, asking which reach one bank. It assessed 41 in writing.
The bank is Royal Bank of Canada; the edition, 28 September 2026. RBC is the subject of the analysis, not a client.
Start with when. Ten items are in the Act status: six rules whose dates have passed, and four comment periods closing by the fourteenth of October. Five more fall from the first to the ninth of November, one on the thirty-first of December. 25 have no date to act by, so they are watched. Act is the edition's priority by date, not a finding about the bank.
Then where. Canada carries 62.8 percent of the bank's revenue and 27 of the 41 items; the United States, 25.8 percent and 14 items. Thirteen places where it operates were not read in full: ten countries and territories, and Alberta, Ontario and Québec. Printed as open slots: gaps, not zero.
Next, what kind. 31 items are regulation and standards; five, sanctions, all Canadian and already in force; three, capital, currency and payments; two, ownership and screening.
One console, seven team views. The CEO view holds all 41. Treasury, 24. The board, 16. Regulatory affairs, 13. The chief risk officer, 10. Government relations, 10, with the comment periods. The chief compliance officer, 5: the sanctions.
Filter by place, status, category, date, stage or team, and open an item: its official text, quoted, dated and linked; what the rule touches; why it is in RBC's picture, from its annual report; and the typical owner, a function, never a person. The console shows what each rule says, as published.
The grid sets impact against likelihood, as the edition rated them. None is rated severe. Three are major, all from OSFI, and none has a date to act by.
Download the 41 items as a CSV file.
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All 41 items, by team, place, status and date.
Choose a team, a place, a status or a date window; open any item to read what the rule says, in the general form, with its official text one click away.
34,333 rows read from 15 public sources; 41 changes assessed in writing, edition of 28 Sep 2026.
10 items in the Act status: 6 rules whose dates have passed and 4 comment periods, all in the United States, closing by 14 Oct 2026. 5 more are dated 1 to 9 Nov 2026 and 1 is dated 31 Dec 2026. 25 have no date to act by, so they are watched. Act, Prepare and Watch are the edition’s editorial priority by date, not findings that anything is outstanding at RBC.
Canada: 62.8% of revenue, 27 of the 41 items. United States: 25.8% of revenue, 14 of the 41 items. Other international: 11.3% of revenue and no items: the United Kingdom was read and no item was assessed there; the other places were not read, or read at EU level only. 13 places where RBC operates were not read in full: 10 countries and territories and 3 provinces (Alberta, Ontario, Québec), printed as gaps, not as zero.
- Regulation and standards: 31
- Sanctions and financial access: 5
- Capital, currency and payments: 3
- Ownership, screening and expropriation: 2
The 5 sanctions items are Canadian measures already in force. Of the 210 documents that reach RBC, 46 are sanctions measures; 5 were assessed in writing, 41 kept without a write-up.
- CEO: 41 items
- Treasury: 24 items
- Board: 16 items
- Regulatory affairs: 13 items
- Chief Risk Officer: 10 items
- Government relations: 10 items
- Chief Compliance Officer: 5 items
Impact and likelihood as the edition rated them, on five-point scales: analyst judgement, not a probability. 3 are rated major, all from OSFI, and none has a date to act by. None is rated severe.
Loading the 41 items of the edition of 28 Sep 2026…
RBC operates in places this edition did not read; a scan of nothing is not a clean scan, so zero there is not zero exposure. No source connected yet: Barbados, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, British Virgin Islands, Alberta and Québec. Read at EU level only, national law not read: Ireland and Luxembourg. Ontario (open data only): its laws site renders only in a browser and its Gazette files are closed to automated reading. The United Kingdom was read (UK legislation, 15 rows) and no item was assessed this edition.
RBC is the subject of the analysis, not a client. No endorsement by RBC is implied. General research, not advice. Strature and its principal hold no position in, and receive no payment from, Royal Bank of Canada.
Statuses are an editorial priority drawn from the dates in the official texts, not legal advice: Act, a date passed, due within 30 days, or major or severe impact due within 180 days; Prepare, otherwise dated within 180 days; Watch, later, or no date to act by. Every window is measured from the edition date, 28 Sep 2026. Impact and likelihood are analyst judgement on five-point scales, not a probability.
Figures: Strature Exposure, RBC edition of 28 Sep 2026, built from public sources.
Run this on your company, free.
A Strature Exposure pilot builds the same edition for your company from public sources and its own disclosures, free for six to twelve months; all it needs to start is the company name. The full demo takes the console above further: the coverage tables, the sources table and the items kept but not written up. The Principal replies from the firm’s own address.
The free page gives the dates. The demo page shows what to do about them.
RBC is the subject of the analysis, not a client. No endorsement by RBC is implied. Recommendations are analytical, not legal, tax or investment advice. Demo edition, built by Strature from public sources. Not commissioned by, reviewed by or affiliated with Royal Bank of Canada.