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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...
Read the articleJune 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...
Read the articleMay 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....
Read the articleMay 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...
Read the articleMay 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...
Read the articleMay 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...
Read the articleMay 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 ...
Read the articleMay 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...
Read the articleApril 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,...
Read the articleApril 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...
Read the articleApril 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...
Read the articleApril 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...
Read the articleMarch 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...
Read the articleMarch 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...
Read the articleMarch 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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