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October 08, 2024
Introducing Pay by Bank for Bill Pay: Higher adoption, fewer returns
Pay by Bank for Bill Pay is designed to help businesses capitalize on the opportunity of bank payments by providing a more seamless, cost-effective, and secure way for...
October 07, 2024
The power of cash flow underwriting with instant onboarding: Introducing Layer and Consumer Report
By combining the power of Plaid Layer, our instant financial onboarding platform, with Consumer Report, our cash flow data solution powered by our consumer reporting agency, we’re making...
September 05, 2024
Unlock cash flow underwriting with no code required
Plaid is introducing the Credit Dashboard, a new no-code solution designed to accelerate speed to market for lenders who are eager to integrate real-time, actionable cash flow data...
August 07, 2024
Strengthening fraud defenses in the era of data breaches
Learn how we’re including data breach data into Plaid Beacon to help organizations better protect themselves and their users from fraud and abuse.
June 22, 2023
Introducing Beacon
Today, we are excited to introduce Plaid Beacon, the anti-fraud network for fintechs and financial institutions. Beacon is designed to stop the chain reaction of fraud that occurs...
June 20, 2023
An easier way to manage ACH return risk with Signal Dashboard
Today, we're excited to announce Signal Dashboard, which makes Signal’s risk assessments accessible to any company, even those with limited data science resources. Now businesses can use Signal...
June 08, 2023
Verify once, verify everywhere with Plaid Identity Verification
Today, we’re introducing an all-new identity verification experience that allows consumers to fast track verifications across Plaid-powered apps and services. Just as commerce providers have delivered on the...
February 16, 2023
Enabling safe and fast ID verification in Canada
Complying with customer identification and KYC requirements can be challenging. Plaid Identity Verification and Monitor now available in Canada. Verify customers in seconds to prevent fraud while complying...
November 17, 2022
The next phase of bank payments – safer, smarter, faster
Together with a network of nearly 50 leading payment partners, Plaid is making account-to-account money movement safer, smarter and faster by innovating on both existing and emerging bank...
October 19, 2022
Put greater data privacy control into the hands of consumers with Plaid's Privacy Controls suite
Introducing Plaid’s Privacy Controls suite and a new product, Permissions Manager - data privacy solutions for open finance businesses to deliver more customer transparency and control.
May 18, 2022
Introducing Plaid Identity Verification and Monitor
Today, we’re excited to announce Plaid Identity Verification and Monitor - a verification and compliance solution that reduces fraud and maximizes conversion rates, available without any additional integration...
December 10, 2021
Introducing Payouts in the UK - enabling your users to instantly make withdrawals and refunds
To help continue to drive adoption for open banking payments and make it a full stack payment solution, today we’re excited to announce a new product–Payouts. Payouts enables users...
October 14, 2021
Highlights from Day 2 at Plaid Forum
We wrapped Plaid Forum today with the important things we are doing to improve your developer experience.
August 25, 2021
Enhancements to Plaid Link for an improved user experience
Introducing enhancements to Plaid Link that provide an even more intuitive and consistent experience for people to conveniently connect their accounts to their chosen applications.
May 10, 2021
Improving the payments experience in the UK
In addition to our plug and play Plaid Link we are now offering another integration option for Payment Initiation in the UK–Modular Link. Modular Link enables you to...