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November 19, 2025
Helping community banks and credit unions bring their trusted customer experience into the digital age
Community banks and credit unions play a vital role in their customers’ lives, and Plaid is helping bring that trusted experience into the digital age. By expanding access...
Read the articleSeptember 11, 2025
Setting the Standard for Safer, Permissioned Data Access
Plaid is setting the standard for safe, permissioned data access. With built-in transparency, control, and security, financial institutions gain visibility while consumers stay in control of how their...
Read the articleSeptember 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...
Read the articleDecember 17, 2024
How Financial Institutions are Thinking about Open Banking: Survey Results
Only 54% of respondents recognized that many fintechs, payments apps, and digital wallets will also be required under the new regulation to make secure consumer-permissioned data freely available,...
Read the articleOctober 22, 2024
The CFPB’s final 1033 rule and the future of open finance
We are encouraged by the CFPB’s efforts to promote consumer choice and competition and establish additional safeguards for consumers and our industry. The new regulation will also further...
Read the articleSeptember 10, 2024
Progress in open finance: An update from Plaid
Plaid partners with financial institutions to simplify the transition to open banking by providing secure, scalable API solutions that enable seamless data sharing. By collaborating closely with financial...
Read the articleMay 30, 2024
New solutions to help Plaid customers prepare for open banking regulation
Plaid is here to support you through this change. Today, we’re excited to share details about our open banking readiness tool kit, built to empower Plaid customers to...
Read the articleJanuary 02, 2024
A New Era for Open Finance
We believe the rule is good for consumers and good for industry – including fintechs, banks and everyone in between. Healthy rules of the road will accelerate a...
Read the articleDecember 21, 2023
An Update on our Open Finance Strategy
To support rising consumer demand and financial service’s digital transformation, Plaid has built a network that ensures consumers have the right security and protections in place as they...
Read the articleAugust 22, 2023
Scaling an Open Finance future with Plaid’s Data Partner Dashboard
Plaid is excited to support data partners of all sizes, from the industry’s largest financial institutions and regional banks to fintechs, neobanks and digital banking platforms. That’s why...
Read the articleJuly 28, 2023
How the fintech revolution will lift all boats
Partnerships between digital finance, fintechs, banks, and credit unions are leveling the playing field, making it easier for banks and credit unions of all sizes to build API...
Read the articleJune 27, 2023
What is an AML compliance program and how do I get started?
As tech companies continue their expansion into financial services, many will be required to establish Anti-Money Laundering (AML) programs in order to comply with banking or brokerage partners’...
Read the articleMay 26, 2023
The primacy of identity verification in the age of fintech and crypto
Identity verification has come a long way since fintech’s early days. So has fraud. Alain Meier, Head of Identity at Plaid, recently sat down with Lex Sokolin, host...
Read the articleMay 11, 2023
Building an Open Finance Future: Safe and Reliable Connectivity for All
Plaid has spent the past decade working with financial institutions to set up an API-based data sharing network that supports consumers’ data rights. In the absence of Open...
Read the articleMay 09, 2023
How real-time funding solutions are changing the face of open finance
Tearsheet Editor In Chief Zach Miller speaks with John Anderson, Head of Payments at Plaid. Anderson, who moved to Plaid from Meta in 2022, shares how Plaid helps...
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