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May 04, 2021
Newsletter - May 2021
Read about our latest features, quality improvements based on customer feedback, and our newly launched incubator, FinRise, which supports founders that are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color.
May 04, 2021
Clear Books helps small businesses simplify accounting
Clear Books needed a way for users to easily share their business transactions. Plaid provides Clear Books with payment account information feeds that simplify accounting for small businesses.
April 30, 2021
How to make re-authentication better: our response to the FCA’s consultation
90-day reauthentication, is it actually going away? Maybe! Check out our latest blog to see our response to the FCA’s consultation and how we plan to own 90-day...
April 27, 2021
Paysend and Plaid working together to make international money transfers seamless
Paysend is now working with Plaid to provide their 3.5 million customers with simple open banking payments that enable fast, low-cost international money transfers.
April 27, 2021
Ziggma is leveling up portfolio management
Ziggma needed a way for users to connect their investment accounts. With Plaid, Ziggma users can connect their accounts to take advantage of institutional-grade portfolio management tools.
April 23, 2021
Building a better customer experience for you
See how we’ve improved the quality of Plaid products as well as tools to provide greater visibility into your integration, support cases, and more.
April 14, 2021
Our response to future oversight of the CMA’s open banking remedies
The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) open banking remedies have been a driving force behind the development and growing use of open banking within the UK. Now as...
April 07, 2021
Digital finance is everywhere, but it’s just getting started
Plaid raises Series D to support growth of fintech and enable the next generation of digital financial services
March 30, 2021
Dun & Bradstreet brings alternative data to small business credit profiles, powered by Plaid
Plaid is working with Dun & Bradstreet to bring alternative data to business credit profiles and help unlock growth opportunities for small businesses across the country. Today, Dun...
March 29, 2021
Ellevest is leveling the financial playing field
Ellevest needed a better way to enable members to connect their financial accounts. After switching to Plaid, Ellevest's conversion rate jumped by 2.1x.
March 26, 2021
Bhargavi Kamakshivalli on her passion for building a more inclusive financial ecosystem
In our next installment of Plaid People, we chat with Design Director, Bhargavi Kamakshi, on the importance of financial access, her journey into design, and the joy she...
March 25, 2021
A more inclusive design system
As illustrators, how do you decide on a color as personal as skin tone? Learn how Plaid’s Design Team chooses skin tones for their illustrations.
March 24, 2021
Stilt provides financial services for all
Stilt needed financial data to offer loans. With Plaid, Stilt can use consumer-permissioned cash-flow data to help determine a borrower’s creditworthiness.
March 24, 2021
Introducing Plaid’s FinRise Class of 2021
We’re excited to announce Plaid’s FinRise inaugural cohort of five early-stage fintech startups
March 19, 2021
How we scaled our logging stack by creating per-team budgets
The ELK Stack is a vital component of real-time observability at Plaid. All Plaid services can send logs to an AWS hosted ElasticSearch cluster (ES for brevity), so...