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April 15, 2026

Product Updates – April 2026

Explore April updates: new User APIs, margin balances in Investments, automated data partner alerts, and smarter payment rules for better decisioning.

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March 18, 2026

Product Updates - March 2026

AI built for financial services is reshaping how companies fight fraud, assess risk, and make lending decisions. This month, Plaid CTO Will Robinson breaks down what that looks...

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February 20, 2026

Product Updates - February 2026

Explore February’s updates including API-based bank verification, expanded cash flow and income insights, early access to new fraud dashboards, improved onboarding performance, and dashboard enhancements.

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January 09, 2026

What we shipped in 2025

It's a wrap on 2025! Explore highlights from over 200 product launches, feature updates and platform improvements designed to support innovation in financial services—from smarter fraud detection to...

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December 11, 2025

Product Updates - December 2025

Explore December's updates including improvements to pay-by-bank conversion, API access for fraud products, faster Link load times, and AI-enhanced transaction categories.

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November 18, 2025

Product Updates - November 2025

This month’s updates deliver improvements across data quality, verification workflows, analytics, and partner integrations. We’ve enhanced employer and income normalization for underwriting, added flexible controls and webhooks in...

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October 20, 2025

Product Updates - October 2025

In case you missed it, we just announced a new suite of ML-powered risk scores designed to help you make faster, smarter decisions across onboarding, payments, and credit....

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September 12, 2025

Product Updates - September 2025

Time is money and this month’s updates are all about helping you make good use of your time by improving and automating admin workflows. With new updates that...

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August 14, 2025

August product updates: Faster onboarding & stronger identity verification

Here’s what’s new across Plaid this August. This month’s updates are all about speed and accuracy—built to help you securely onboard users faster, verify identities with more...

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July 09, 2025

Product Updates - July 2025

More insight and features to help you build—here’s what’s new across Plaid this July. Transfer now supports instant pay-ins via Request for Payment (RfP), enabling fast, any-day...

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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,...

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May 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...

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April 02, 2025

Product Updates - April 2025

We’ve shipped a number of updates across Plaid in April - from streamlined cash flow insights to smarter fraud tools, here are the highlights.

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March 03, 2025

Product Updates - March 2025

Discover the latest product updates and enhancements across Plaid’s entire product stack - from payments to credit underwriting, to onboarding and fraud.

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June 18, 2024

The biggest product updates from Plaid Effects

New network-powered solutions across onboarding, credit, anti-fraud, and payments.

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