Welcome to the Plaid Blog
June 18, 2024
The biggest product updates from Plaid Effects
New network-powered solutions across onboarding, credit, anti-fraud, and payments.
June 17, 2024
A more seamless Plaid Link experience for consumers
Plaid is creating seamless and secure experiences in Link to help consumers access valuable financial services. Learn about the new Link updates.
September 28, 2023
More powerful Transactions data for more personalized user experiences
Plaid Transactions got supercharged! Today, we’re excited to announce several updates to our Transactions product, which enables financial services providers to do even more with transactional data. These...
June 23, 2023
7 ways enterprises can scale and optimize the user experience
Today, every company is a fintech company, meaning that any financial services provider or enterprise can help their users securely connect to the open finance ecosystem and...
May 17, 2022
Build deeper user connections with data driven insights
Gain a deeper understanding of your users' financial picture. With Recurring Transactions, you can easily access insights about the recurring inflows and outflows in a user’s credit, checking,...
February 23, 2022
Our biggest update to transaction data categorization
Introducing a new categorization taxonomy and category list for personal finance management apps and tools
January 25, 2022
Announcing Plaid Portal: An ongoing commitment to data privacy
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Plaid Portal US, a privacy tool for people who have connected their financial accounts to apps and services in the...
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.
October 13, 2021
Highlights from Day 1 at Plaid Forum
We wrapped up Day 1 of Plaid Forum, our virtual conference, and it was exciting to see hundreds of people come together to discuss how we’re building the...
September 02, 2021
Debug user issues with new enhancements to Institution Status
Introducing historical and client-specific views of institution health directly in the Dashboard—to help developers debug user issues more efficiently.
September 01, 2021
Why fast and easy account validation is the key to onboarding more customers
Learn how our Auth, Identity, and Balance products can enable a seamless and secure ACH experience that will help scale your business
June 29, 2021
Data quality drives better fintech experiences
Ever wonder how your favorite fintech apps get accurate and updated user-permissioned data? It’s not as simple as you might think. A lot of work happens behind-the-scenes to...
April 23, 2021
Building a better customer experience for you
See how we’ve improved the quality of Plaid products as well as tools to provide greater visibility into your integration, support cases, and more.
March 09, 2021
Faster and easier account connection for returning users
Onboard users faster with Plaid's new returning user experience. This simplified flow gets users started on your app more easily.
February 22, 2021
Solve user issues with our new Item Debugger and improvements to Institution Status
Today, we’re excited to introduce new and revamped tools to help you as you build and integrate with Plaid: the new Item Debugger, and improvements to Institution Status.