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May 11, 2026

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Augustus Receives OCC Conditional Approval to Charter the First Clearing Bank For The AI Era

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"Augustus (formerly known as Ivy), announced that it has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Augustus Bank, N.A. as a full-service US national bank. Augustus Bank N.A. will be the world's first clearing bank for the AI era, built on a stablecoin and AI-native core—a bank that's always open, made for machines, at the speed of compute. Augustus Bank N.A. will be designed for global financial institutions that need instant, always-on, programmable clearing of major Western currencies."

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