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Customers expect frictionless banking. Plaid in MeridianLink® helps you open and fund accounts faster by verifying income instantly.

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  • Turn applicants into customers

    Enable customers to onboard with less friction and fewer manual steps, helping reduce drop-offs along the way.

  • Reduce fraud risk

    Protect against fraud with trusted bank data that's harder to manipulate than static documents.

  • Simplify borrowing

    Cut the back-and-forth between lenders and applicants by pulling verified income data directly from borrowers’ bank accounts.

Effortless account opening, one integration

Onboard users faster with instant identity verification built into MeridianLink® Opening.

  • Bring on more users quicker

  • Help more applicants complete onboarding by making it easy to connect accounts and verify identity.

  • Catch fraud early, keep sign-ups moving

  • Check for fraud as users sign up, without slowing down trusted customers.

  • Move from onboarding to first transaction faster

  • Eliminate microdeposit delays so customers can fund accounts in seconds using your existing payment rails.

Effortless account opening, one integration

Onboard users faster with instant identity verification built into MeridianLink® Opening.

  • Bring on more users quicker

  • Help more applicants complete onboarding by making it easy to connect accounts and verify identity.

  • Catch fraud early, keep sign-ups moving

  • Check for fraud as users sign up, without slowing down trusted customers.

  • Move from onboarding to first transaction faster

  • Eliminate microdeposit delays so customers can fund accounts in seconds using your existing payment rails.

  • 7 seconds

    to link financial accounts with Plaid Auth

  • 23% lift

    in conversion across onboarding flows

  • 1 in 2

    U.S. adults with bank accounts use Plaid

Verify income in seconds

With Plaid in MeridianLink® Consumer, banks and credit unions can capture income streams traditional methods miss.

  • Less paperwork, more approvals

  • Replace manual uploads with instant income verification, reducing errors, costs, and delays.

  • See more income streams

  • Capture income beyond the W-2—including gig and freelance earnings—so you can verify more applicants with confidence.

  • Reduce income fraud risk

  • Use bank-sourced data to help detect inconsistencies in self-reported income.

Verify income in seconds

With Plaid in MeridianLink® Consumer, banks and credit unions can capture income streams traditional methods miss.

  • Less paperwork, more approvals

  • Replace manual uploads with instant income verification, reducing errors, costs, and delays.

  • See more income streams

  • Capture income beyond the W-2—including gig and freelance earnings—so you can verify more applicants with confidence.

  • Reduce income fraud risk

  • Use bank-sourced data to help detect inconsistencies in self-reported income.

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