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October 17, 2018

More improvements to help users find their bank in Link

We recently introduced several improvements to Link web and iOS that will help your users to easily find their bank when connecting their accounts. Updates include: ...

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October 17, 2018

Meet Plaid's Engineering Interns

Plaid's inaugural class of engineering interns have shipped their projects and are back at school. We asked how their summer went. Our four interns for summer 2018...

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October 02, 2018

Changelog - September 2018

Here are a few highlights from what we've been working on over the last month: * Institutions: We added Identity support ...

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October 01, 2018

Plaid at Grace Hopper 2018

Here at Plaid, we’re committed to building a team with varied backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives across all functions and levels. Diversity and inclusiveness are core to Plaid–what we...

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September 12, 2018

Shift takes the guesswork out of buying and selling used cars

Shift uses Plaid + Stripe for their new online payment solution. Plaid’s Balance and Auth products work well with Stripe to quickly and securely check account balances in...

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September 10, 2018

Managing your Amazon Redshift performance: How Plaid uses Periscope Data

The Data Science & Infrastructure team at Plaid has grown significantly over the past few months into a team whose mission is to empower Plaid with a data-first...

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September 05, 2018

Dashboard: Improved Usage filtering, visualizations, and more

Today, we’re excited to release an entirely revamped Usage view to all Dashboard users. You can now visualize item adds and removes over time—plus we’ve added a product-by-product...

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September 04, 2018

Changelog - August 2018

Here is a summary of what we've shipped over the last month: * Institutions: We expanded our Identity institution coverage to over 2,100 ...

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August 23, 2018

For Financial Gym, a balanced budget starts with clean data

Financial Gym was able to quickly and easily connect its existing system with Plaid Transactions, which seamlessly links with clients’ bank and credit card accounts.

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August 13, 2018

Placid Express fights the friction, fees, and fraud of digital remittance

After integrating with Plaid, Placid Express saw an 80% increase in approval rates for ACH-funded transfers and a 60% drop in requests from customers to fast-track transfers.

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August 01, 2018

Changelog - July 2018

Here are highlights from among the things we've been working on over the last month: * Institutions: We expanded our Auth ...

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July 30, 2018

Building an Inclusive Code Review Culture

Every engineer is familiar with code reviews, and many before us have compiled thoughts and suggestions on how to do them. Code reviews have an outsized impact on...

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July 03, 2018

Changelog - June 2018

Here is a summary of what we've shipped over the last month: * Institutions: We significantly expanded coverage during June, for example ...

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July 02, 2018

Jake Stern on starting as Plaid's first New Business Associate hire

In our latest Plaid People profile, Jake talks about the experiences that primed him for life in fintech, his enthusiasm for the product he has the pleasure of...

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June 28, 2018

Scaling a monitoring platform to over 9,600 bank integrations

At Plaid, one of the things we do is we maintain integrations with more than 9,600 banks. Our core promise to customers is providing reliable and homogenous data...

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