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June 05, 2025

Product Updates - June 2025

In the leadup to Plaid Effects, we continue to ship a range of powerful new features and improvements across the Plaid platform. Highlights include smarter account verification flows,...

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June 04, 2025

Agents in Action: Leveraging AI to improve our core product experiences

Plaid is using AI and AI agents to enhance product experiences. Today we are highlighting two AI Agents: AI Annotator, which accelerates data labeling for model training, and...

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June 02, 2025

Powering Smarter Pay-by-Bank in the UK with Visa and Plaid

Visa’s A2A payments are live in the UK with Plaid as the Open Finance Network behind it. Together, we’re enabling secure, one-click pay-by-bank with real-time settlement and scalable...

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May 29, 2025

Introducing Transactions for Business: Powering real-time business tools

Transactions for Business brings real-time, business-specific categorization to SMB accounts, powering smarter business financial tools. Learn more.

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May 22, 2025

The Next Phase of Developer Tools with Anthropic and Plaid

On May 1, we launched our first integration with Claude, Anthropic’s state-of-the-art AI assistant, enabling you to run diagnostics and analytics in a chat format. Starting today, you...

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May 22, 2025

Plaid Link: A decade of innovation in connectivity & conversion

While Plaid has expanded to provide solutions for payments, cash flow lending, consumer onboarding, and anti-fraud, Link remains core to our mission and the starting point for 750,000...

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May 21, 2025

Connect your Plaid integration to agents built with OpenAI

You can now connect OpenAI agents directly to Plaid’s developer tools using our Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server.

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May 19, 2025

Enhanced Access Management for Plaid Dashboard

Security has always been foundational at Plaid, but today, we’re taking a major step forward for our enterprise customers. We’re rolling out a new set of security and...

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May 13, 2025

Using ML to counter GenAI with new identity verification features

Plaid IDV now includes powerful new tools that make it even harder for fraudsters to manipulate or bypass the verification process—while also enhancing the user experience for good...

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May 08, 2025

Transforming Engineers: How we grew AI coding adoption at Plaid

One of our top priorities this year is to help all Plaid engineers become AI power users. The problem facing us was how to change the habits of...

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May 07, 2025

People at Plaid: Building with heart, leading with impact

At Plaid, we’re building a future where financial systems work better for everyone. But we’re not doing it alone. Our team is full of thoughtful, creative people who...

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May 05, 2025

Product Updates - May 2025

This May, we’ve made key improvements across Plaid—from new fund availability visibility and smarter fraud detection to a more streamlined onboarding flow. Plus, you can now get instant...

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May 01, 2025

“Claude, let’s analyze and improve my Plaid integration”

The new Plaid Model Context Protocol (MCP) server brings data, insights, and troubleshooting into one conversation with Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant.

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April 30, 2025

How Plaid transforms the full lending lifecycle with cash flow insights

Discover how Plaid helps lenders unlock smarter, faster, and more inclusive lending—from prequalification to servicing—using real-time cash flow insights.

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April 24, 2025

Inside Plaid: How we are investing in reliable financial data access at scale

A behind-the-scenes look at Plaid’s investments in financial data access via AI-powered tools, seamless API migrations, and strategic partnerships.

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