As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 20, 2017

Registration No. 333-130744

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of each registrant as specified in its articles of incorporation)

The Tower at PNC Plaza

300 Fifth Avenue

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2401

(888) 762-2265

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number including code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Robert Q. Reilly

Chief Financial Officer

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

The Tower at PNC Plaza

300 Fifth Avenue

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2401

(412) 762-2000

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

Copy to:

Edward S. Rosenthal

Deputy General Counsel

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

The Tower at PNC Plaza

300 Fifth Avenue

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2401

(412) 762-2000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) to deregister any and all shares of the Registrant’s common stock, $5.00 par value per share, and related Preferred Share Purchase Rights (together, the “Securities”) registered but unissued or unsold as of the date hereof under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 29, 2005 (File No. 333-130744) (the “Registration Statement”). This Post-Effective Amendment is made in accordance with an undertaking by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remained unsold at the termination of the offering.

The Registrant has terminated the offering of its Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement, and hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all Securities registered but unissued or unsold thereunder as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

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-3 and has duly caused this post-effective amendment to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Pittsburgh, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on December 20, 2017.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated: