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