Welcome to the Plaid Blog
November 17, 2016
Announcing a new mobile experience for Plaid Link
We're excited to share new Link product updates that we've been working on that improve the mobile experience and make it even easier to integrate. Redesigned...
October 24, 2016
Introducing the new and improved Dashboard
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve shipped a new, completely redesigned Dashboard . New look and feel It’s hard to miss it — we’ve given...
October 19, 2016
Making sense of data access approaches
Consumer access to financial data has become a hot topic of late—and with good reason. U.S. consumers are embracing a proliferation of digital financial services, spanning everything from...
June 20, 2016
Announcing our $44M Series B
When we started building Plaid in 2012, our goal was simple: We wanted to make the financial services industry developer-friendly and enable new innovation in a space that...
April 27, 2016
Plaid named a Gartner 'Cool Vendor'
We’re excited to share that Plaid has been named a Cool Vendor in financial services by leading research company Gartner. “The Cool Vendors in Consumer Financial Services,...
April 26, 2016
Seeking refuge from unsafe JavaScript
In late 2013, the vast majority of Plaid's code was JavaScript. Though the proportion has decreased since then, JavaScript still accounts for more than half our code. ...
April 18, 2016
Speeding up npm in virtual environments
At Plaid, we spend a lot of time thinking about the tools we use on the engineering side, which has helped us to automate time-consuming tasks and focus...
April 07, 2016
OFX 2.2
Let’s face it: Bank accounts weren’t designed with 21st century needs in mind. That’s a big part of what drives us here at Plaid—exploring how we can use...
March 29, 2016
Putting consumers first in fintech
Over the past few years, Plaid has been working with a growing number of groups throughout financial services to deliver better access to financial data. We focus on...
April 22, 2015
Getting Started with Plaid Transactions
This quickstart guide will get you up and running with Plaid Transactions (previously known as Connect), which allows you to retrieve user-authorized transaction and account data from thousands...