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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: ...
Read the articleOctober 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...
Read the articleOctober 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 ...
Read the articleOctober 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...
Read the articleSeptember 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...
Read the articleSeptember 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...
Read the articleSeptember 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...
Read the articleSeptember 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 ...
Read the articleAugust 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.
Read the articleAugust 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.
Read the articleAugust 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 ...
Read the articleJuly 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...
Read the articleJuly 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 ...
Read the articleJuly 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...
Read the articleJune 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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