With your permission, apps like Venmo and Acorns use your financial data to provide services to you. Depending on the app, the types of data you share may include things like:
Visit Plaid Portal to view the types of data you’ve shared through Plaid and control access to that data.
With Plaid, connecting your financial accounts to an app is simple. Here’s what happens on our end.
The combination of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) help keep your personal information safe.
Plaid requires multi-factor authentication for added security to help protect your data in our systems.
Plaid uses secure cloud infrastructure technologies to help enable you to connect quickly and securely.
The Plaid API and all related components are continuously monitored by our information security team.
Security researchers and financial institutions regularly audit Plaid’s API and security controls.
At Plaid, our business model—and our reputation—depend on keeping your data safe. That means working around the clock to help keep your data secure.
There are more than 6,000 financial apps and services that are powered by Plaid.
Plaid connects to more than 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.
1 in 4 US adults has connected a financial account to an app with Plaid—and that number is growing every day.
