ALAB Astera Labs Inc

1994 Stock Option Plan

Community Financial Corporation

1996 Stock Incentive Plan

(Full Titles of Plans)

John H. Holcomb, III

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

1927 First Avenue North

Birmingham, AL 35203

(205) 583-3600

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With Copies to:

Christopher B. Harmon, Esq.

Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C.

1901 Sixth Avenue North

Suite 2400

Birmingham, Alabama 35203

(205) 254-1000

DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

These post-effective amendments relate to the following registration statements on Form S-8 (collectively, and as amended to date, the “Registration Statements”), filed by Alabama National BanCorporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission, registering shares of the Company’s common stock, $1.00 par value per share (the “Common Stock”):

File No. 333-70205, filed on January 7, 1999, and amended on January 15, 1999, registering 56,641 shares.

File No. 333-70209, filed on January 7, 1999, and amended on January 15, 1999, registering 39,051 shares.

Promptly following the filing of these post-effective amendments, it is expected that the Company will merge with and into RBC Centura Banks, Inc., with RBC Centura Banks, Inc. as the surviving corporation. The offerings pursuant to the Registration Statements have been terminated as a result of such merger or otherwise. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that remain unsold at the termination of the respective offerings, the Company is filing these Post-Effective Amendments No. 2 and hereby removes from registration all shares of Common Stock that remain unsold under each of the Registration Statements. As a result of this deregistration, no securities remain registered for sale pursuant to the Registration Statements.