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July 11, 2023 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Penny Finance, the online financial mentorship platform for women, announces the launch of automated account integration with PLAID, allowing for improved money insights and more accurate financial reporting for members. Penny’s new feature “enables women to link their bank accounts for an even better and… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Plaid introduces Plaid Beacon, the anti-fraud network for fintechs and financial institutions. Beacon is designed “to stop the chain reaction of fraud that occurs when identities are stolen and accounts are compromised.” Through a set of APIs, Beacon reportedly “enables real-time, secure information… Read More

June 11, 2023 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid is 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 promise of “one-click” checkout, Plaid claims it is “creating the standard for a ‘verify once, verify everywhere’… Read More

May 25, 2023 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TradeStation Group, Inc., a Florida-based company whose operating subsidiaries provide self-clearing online brokerage services for trading stocks, ETFs, options, futures, and crypto that aim to offer the ultimate trading experience, has announced its integration with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. The… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Buddy, the budgeting app for Gen Zers with 3M users worldwide, has integrated with Plaid, an open finance service provider, in order “to provide Buddy users with the ability to securely connect their financial accounts and automatically track their spending.” Buddy claims it is “entirely… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra announced that Plaid, the open finance provider, is now integrated within Finastra’s Fusion Digital Banking platform. The partnership, delivered via Finastra‘s FusionFabric.cloud open APIs, “provides financial institutions of all sizes within the Finastra ecosystem with account verification tools, making it easier and more secure… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Purpose-driven fintech Mission Lane announced it is expanding its partnership with the data network Plaid in order “to bring secure open finance solutions to its two million-plus customers.” The expanded partnership “leverages Plaid’s innovative open finance API data connectivity solution, which allows customers to securely… Read More

February 19, 2023 @ 11:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In 2018, Plaid launched Plaid in Canada to enable account connectivity for thousands of fintechs and help increase financial access for millions of Canadians. Since then, they’ve worked with companies like Wealthsimple, Shopify, and Wave. But onboarding a new user is more than “just account… Read More

February 15, 2023 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid, the data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life, and Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA), the independent identity provider, announced a partnership and integration “to help thousands of banks and financial institutions adopt OAuth and APIs… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayJunction, a developer of payment processing technology, announced an integration with Plaid, a consumer-permissioned network powering the digital financial ecosystem to simplify bank payments, “enabling PayJunction customers and partners to deliver a better pay-by-bank experience.” Integrating Plaid’s secure account-to-account (A2A) bank connectivity technology with PayJunction’s… Read More

December 8, 2022 @ 7:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Plaid, a leader in open banking technology, is the next Fintech to reduce its staff due to a slumping economy. In a team update, Plaid founder and CEO Zach Perret announced the company was reducing its headcount by 260 positions. Offices around the world were… Read More

December 7, 2022 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Airwallex has partnered with open banking platform Plaid. The agreement will see Airwallex offer an integrated solution for Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments. Airwallex said this will enable a more seamless and cost-efficient way to authorize debits from bank accounts into Airwallex accounts.  Users will… Read More

October 26, 2022 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capco, a Wipro company and global technology and management consultancy, and Plaid, an industry leader powering the digital financial ecosystem, announced a new alliance. The alliance will “combine Plaid’s leading open finance solutions with Capco’s domain and data analytics expertise to help financial institutions unlock… Read More

October 21, 2022 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid has launched a new data privacy product – Permissions Manager – which enables their financial services partners “to help put consumers in control of their own data from initial account connections to ongoing connection management.” Plaid’s consumer research has shown that today people “generally… Read More

August 23, 2022 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Open Banking provider Plaid is continuing to expand its services around the world – focusing for now on Europe. According to a note from the company, Plaid is now live in 8 markets, having recently added Spain and Poland and offering data connectivity in Germany…. Read More

August 6, 2022 @ 1:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Plaid recently announced that financial services industry veteran Meghan Welch has joined as the firm’s very first Chief People Officer. Plaid has “grown to 1,200+ employees to support the mainstreaming of fintech.” Meghan’s over 20 years of professional experience at Capital One, “most… Read More

July 26, 2022 @ 10:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Popular Open Banking service provider Plaid has announced a new service called Variable Recurring Payments (VRP). Plaid claims the offering can help UK businesses save more than £1.5 billion annually by slicing payment processing fees, according to a company statement. As the name explains, VRP… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

An increasing number of people – 16% of US adults – are using cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, “through digital asset exchanges for investments, value exchange, asset tokenization, and more,” according to an update from Fintech Plaid. With crypto becoming mainstream, Plaid has “seen… Read More

June 16, 2022 @ 2:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Plaid has officially opened an office in Toronto, Canada as it aims to expand its presence in the market. Simultaneously, Plaid announced an agreement with RBC to access data. According to a blog post: “The agreement will – for the first time – bring about… Read More

May 19, 2022 @ 3:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Very Good Security (VGS), a firm focused on protecting sensitive data, enabling innovation while ensuring security and privacy, announced an extended partnership with Plaid, a data network that powers the tools “millions of people” rely on to “live healthier financial lives.” VGS will be “a… Read More