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October 15, 2025

Plaid’s Fall 2025 Product Release

Learn how real-time data, network intelligence, & AI power new risk, credit, & fraud scores in our 2025 Fall Release.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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