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June 20, 2018

Fintech Request for Startups

Today, we’re excited to launch our second Request for Startups. Last year's RFS saw more than 100 companies respond, many of which have since grown immensely and...

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June 04, 2018

Changelog - May 2018

Here is a summary of what we've shipped over the last month: * Canada: We announced support for Canadian financial institutions...

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May 31, 2018

Transaction Dupes - Debugging multiple race conditions

Last summer, we started receiving feedback from a few customers that they were being notified about pairs of new transactions that appeared to be duplicates of one another....

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May 22, 2018

Plaid in Canada

Enabling innovation in financial services means doing so everywhere. Today, we’re taking a step towards this vision by announcing our first international market: Canada. This launch extends...

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May 18, 2018

Introducing API secrets by environment

Starting today, distinct API secrets can be set for the Sandbox, Development, and Production environments. This allows you to easily grant varying levels of access to the Plaid...

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May 17, 2018

Plaid People: Joy Zheng

In the first installment of our series Plaid People, Joy Zheng talks about Plaid, her love for baking, and how a little bit of statistics helped change up...

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May 04, 2018

Changelog - April 2018

Here is a summary of what we've been working on over the last month: * Assets: We announced that our new Assets ...

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May 01, 2018

Plaiderdays

Back in March 2015, when Plaid had just a few dozen employees, we realized that even though we were laser-focused on getting Plaid off the ground, some of...

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April 26, 2018

Live Oak Bank provides financial solutions for small businesses

Live Oak Bank needed to provide secure and speedy banking. By using Plaid Auth and Identity, Live Oak Bank has been able to speed up onboarding, curb fraud,...

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April 18, 2018

Our commitment to building an inclusive financial ecosystem

We’re proud to announce that we’ve recently joined the Center for Financial Services Innovation’s (CFSI) Financial Health Network. CFSI was established to promote innovation in financial services...

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April 16, 2018

Plaid Assets and Day 1 Certainty: a win-win solution for digital mortgage

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that our Assets product is out of beta and Plaid is officially approved to supply asset verification reports to Fannie Mae as...

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April 02, 2018

Changelog - March 2018

Here is a summary of what we've been working on over the last month: * Link Web: We made major improvements to the Link Web...

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March 29, 2018

Join the future of financial services - Simple

Earlier this year, I had the exciting opportunity to interview Susan Ehrlich, Chief Financial Officer at Simple. Simple takes a unique approach to digital banking by leveraging technology...

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March 20, 2018

Our Journey in Mortgage

Last year, we made a commitment to better serve the mortgage market. We did this because we believed that digitization could bring transformation both for this industry and...

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March 01, 2018

Changelog - February 2018

LINK We released version 1.1.5 of Link for iOS, which improved error handling during initialization, removed the need for users to re-populate the username field when...

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