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September 10, 2025

The Fintech Effect 2025: UK consumers shaping the next chapter of open finance

Discover key insights from Plaid’s 2025 UK Fintech Effect report on how consumers are driving change in digital finance, payments, and open banking.

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September 10, 2025

Cutting Costs and Complexity in Open Finance with Plaid

With Plaid’s technical architecture, banks can reduce cost and complexity without sacrificing oversight. Our Aggregator Token can cut redundant API calls by up to 50%, delivering efficiency for...

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September 09, 2025

The Fintech Effect 2025: The year consumers take the wheel in finance

Explore key takeaways from Plaid’s 2025 Fintech Effect report on how rising consumer expectations are driving the next evolution of digital finance.

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August 29, 2025

How PMs Build Fintech Prototypes with Replit + Plaid

Prototyping Plaid-powered products no longer requires engineering resources. With Replit and Plaid’s APIs, PMs can spin up working demos in under an hour, turning ideas into clickable prototypes...

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August 26, 2025

Scaling Instant Onboarding to Hundreds of Millions of Users

When we introduced Layer, Plaid’s instant financial onboarding experience, we were responding to a simple truth: consumers expect fast, seamless digital experiences—whether they're ordering food, signing up for...

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August 26, 2025

Introducing DMV checks: License verification to fight fraud

Plaid introduces DMV checks: Verify meta data from a driver license directly with DMV data sources to strengthen identity verification & fight fraud.

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August 14, 2025

August product updates: Faster onboarding & stronger identity verification

Here’s what’s new across Plaid this August. This month’s updates are all about speed and accuracy—built to help you securely onboard users faster, verify identities with more...

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August 12, 2025

Understanding DSA, DMA and Plaid’s Role in Verification

Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) are reshaping how online platforms operate—introducing strict standards around content, data sharing and competition. Businesses must now implement...

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July 29, 2025

The Plaid Internal MCP Server: Maximizing the leverage of internal AI applications

Plaid Engineering built an internal MCP server to boost productivity by connecting AI tools to internal docs, metrics, and code. Here’s how we did it.

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July 21, 2025

Plaid Protect in action: Key moments to fight fraud in real-time

Spot risk early and respond fast. Plaid Protect delivers real-time fraud risk scoring across key moments in the customer journey with Trust Index. Learn more.

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July 09, 2025

Product Updates - July 2025

More insight and features to help you build—here’s what’s new across Plaid this July. Transfer now supports instant pay-ins via Request for Payment (RfP), enabling fast, any-day...

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June 12, 2025

Introducing Plaid Protect – the next chapter in fraud prevention

In the world of financial fraud, there's what you can see within your own systems, and then there's everything else. That everything else is fraud happening across thousands...

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June 11, 2025

From prompt to prototype: AI tools for developers

We’re rolling out our AI Development Toolkit, a set of new AI tools to help you get from 0 to 1 faster. These tools are built to work...

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June 10, 2025

Unlock smarter lending with our ecosystem partners

Plaid is expanding our partner ecosystem to include credit analytics, technology, and software providers to make cash flow data more accessible and usable at scale.

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June 09, 2025

Announcing Instant Pay-Ins on Plaid Transfer

Plaid launches real-time pay-ins via Request for Payment—now powering instant payments for Carvana vehicle purchases.

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