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September 15, 2025
Summer 2025 Plinterns: A look back
As summer comes to a close, we say goodbye to our class of “Plinterns” as they’re affectionately known at Plaid. Read more about what the team learned.
September 12, 2025
Product Updates- September 2025
Time is money and this month’s updates are all about helping you make good use of your time by improving and automating admin workflows. With new updates that...
September 11, 2025
Setting the Standard for Safer, Permissioned Data Access
Plaid is setting the standard for safe, permissioned data access. With built-in transparency, control, and security, financial institutions gain visibility while consumers stay in control of how their...
September 10, 2025
Cutting Costs and Complexity in Open Finance with Plaid
With Plaid’s technical architecture, banks can reduce cost and complexity without sacrificing oversight. Our Aggregator Token can cut redundant API calls by up to 50%, delivering efficiency for...
September 10, 2025
The Fintech Effect 2025: UK consumers shaping the next chapter of open finance
Discover key insights from Plaid’s 2025 UK Fintech Effect report on how consumers are driving change in digital finance, payments, and open banking.
September 09, 2025
The Fintech Effect 2025: The year consumers take the wheel in finance
Explore key takeaways from Plaid’s 2025 Fintech Effect report on how rising consumer expectations are driving the next evolution of digital finance.
August 29, 2025
How PMs Build Fintech Prototypes with Replit + Plaid
Prototyping Plaid-powered products no longer requires engineering resources. With Replit and Plaid’s APIs, PMs can spin up working demos in under an hour, turning ideas into clickable prototypes...
August 26, 2025
Scaling Instant Onboarding to Hundreds of Millions of Users
When we introduced Layer, Plaid’s instant financial onboarding experience, we were responding to a simple truth: consumers expect fast, seamless digital experiences—whether they're ordering food, signing up for...
August 26, 2025
Introducing DMV checks: License verification to fight fraud
Plaid introduces DMV checks: Verify meta data from a driver license directly with DMV data sources to strengthen identity verification & fight fraud.
August 14, 2025
August product updates: Faster onboarding & stronger identity verification
Here’s what’s new across Plaid this August. This month’s updates are all about speed and accuracy—built to help you securely onboard users faster, verify identities with more...
August 12, 2025
Understanding DSA, DMA and Plaid’s Role in Verification
Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) are reshaping how online platforms operate—introducing strict standards around content, data sharing and competition. Businesses must now implement...
July 29, 2025
The Plaid Internal MCP Server: Maximizing the leverage of internal AI applications
Plaid Engineering built an internal MCP server to boost productivity by connecting AI tools to internal docs, metrics, and code. Here’s how we did it.
July 21, 2025
Plaid Protect in action: Key moments to fight fraud in real-time
Spot risk early and respond fast. Plaid Protect delivers real-time fraud risk scoring across key moments in the customer journey with Trust Index. Learn more.
July 09, 2025
Product Updates - July 2025
More insight and features to help you build—here’s what’s new across Plaid this July. Transfer now supports instant pay-ins via Request for Payment (RfP), enabling fast, any-day...
June 12, 2025
Introducing Plaid Protect – the next chapter in fraud prevention
In the world of financial fraud, there's what you can see within your own systems, and then there's everything else. That everything else is fraud happening across thousands...