Welcome to the Plaid Blog
June 22, 2023
Introducing Beacon
Today, we are excited to introduce Plaid Beacon, the anti-fraud network for fintechs and financial institutions. Beacon is designed to stop the chain reaction of fraud that occurs...
June 20, 2023
An easier way to manage ACH return risk with Signal Dashboard
Today, we're excited to announce Signal Dashboard, which makes Signal’s risk assessments accessible to any company, even those with limited data science resources. Now businesses can use Signal...
June 08, 2023
Verify once, verify everywhere with Plaid Identity Verification
Today, we’re introducing an all-new identity verification experience that allows consumers to fast track verifications across Plaid-powered apps and services. Just as commerce providers have delivered on the...
February 16, 2023
Enabling safe and fast ID verification in Canada
Complying with customer identification and KYC requirements can be challenging. Plaid Identity Verification and Monitor now available in Canada. Verify customers in seconds to prevent fraud while complying...
November 17, 2022
The next phase of bank payments – safer, smarter, faster
Together with a network of nearly 50 leading payment partners, Plaid is making account-to-account money movement safer, smarter and faster by innovating on both existing and emerging bank...
October 19, 2022
Put greater data privacy control into the hands of consumers with Plaid's Privacy Controls suite
Introducing Plaid’s Privacy Controls suite and a new product, Permissions Manager - data privacy solutions for open finance businesses to deliver more customer transparency and control.
May 18, 2022
Introducing Plaid Identity Verification and Monitor
Today, we’re excited to announce Plaid Identity Verification and Monitor - a verification and compliance solution that reduces fraud and maximizes conversion rates, available without any additional integration...
December 10, 2021
Introducing Payouts in the UK - enabling your users to instantly make withdrawals and refunds
To help continue to drive adoption for open banking payments and make it a full stack payment solution, today we’re excited to announce a new product–Payouts. Payouts enables users...
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.
August 25, 2021
Enhancements to Plaid Link for an improved user experience
Introducing enhancements to Plaid Link that provide an even more intuitive and consistent experience for people to conveniently connect their accounts to their chosen applications.
May 10, 2021
Improving the payments experience in the UK
In addition to our plug and play Plaid Link we are now offering another integration option for Payment Initiation in the UK–Modular Link. Modular Link enables you to...
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
Get started in 40+ languages with our Open API spec and client libraries
We’re releasing an OpenAPI file so that you can auto-generate your own client libraries in your preferred programming language.
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.
May 19, 2020
Introducing Plaid Exchange
The financial ecosystem is undergoing an unprecedented digital transformation due to new realities brought on by COVID-19. Consumers and businesses have turned to fintech to manage their finances...