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February 06, 2017

Plaid plus Citi and Amex

Changing the landscape of financial services requires a partnership between financial institutions, technology firms, and startups. With this in mind, we're excited to share that Citi and American...

January 23, 2017

Plaid + Bridge

At Plaid, we’re focused on building technology that makes financial services better—and we believe design will play a major role in that effort. Until recently, experiences with...

January 17, 2017

More products for more banks

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding coverage for our account authentication product, Auth, to more than 60 institutions. On top of that, we’re also broadening support...

November 17, 2016

Announcing a new mobile experience for Plaid Link

We're excited to share new Link product updates that we've been working on that improve the mobile experience and make it even easier to integrate. Redesigned...

October 24, 2016

Introducing the new and improved Dashboard

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve shipped a new, completely redesigned Dashboard . New look and feel It’s hard to miss it — we’ve given...

October 19, 2016

Making sense of data access approaches

Consumer access to financial data has become a hot topic of late—and with good reason. U.S. consumers are embracing a proliferation of digital financial services, spanning everything from...

June 20, 2016

Announcing our $44M Series B

When we started building Plaid in 2012, our goal was simple: We wanted to make the financial services industry developer-friendly and enable new innovation in a space that...

April 27, 2016

Plaid named a Gartner 'Cool Vendor'

We’re excited to share that Plaid has been named a Cool Vendor in financial services by leading research company Gartner. “The Cool Vendors in Consumer Financial Services,...

April 26, 2016

Seeking refuge from unsafe JavaScript

In late 2013, the vast majority of Plaid's code was JavaScript. Though the proportion has decreased since then, JavaScript still accounts for more than half our code. ...

April 18, 2016

Speeding up npm in virtual environments

At Plaid, we spend a lot of time thinking about the tools we use on the engineering side, which has helped us to automate time-consuming tasks and focus...

April 07, 2016

OFX 2.2

Let’s face it: Bank accounts weren’t designed with 21st century needs in mind. That’s a big part of what drives us here at Plaid—exploring how we can use...

March 29, 2016

Putting consumers first in fintech

Over the past few years, Plaid has been working with a growing number of groups throughout financial services to deliver better access to financial data. We focus on...

April 22, 2015

Getting Started with Plaid Transactions

This quickstart guide will get you up and running with Plaid Transactions (previously known as Connect), which allows you to retrieve user-authorized transaction and account data from thousands...

Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid on This Month in Fintech Podcast

Zach Perret, Co-Founder and CEO of Plaid, is on the inaugural episode of This Month in Fintech — a podcast from This Week in Fintech, hosted by Ryan...