Welcome to the Plaid Blog
June 12, 2025
Introducing Plaid Protect – the next chapter in fraud prevention
In the world of financial fraud, there's what you can see within your own systems, and then there's everything else. That everything else is fraud happening across thousands of banks, apps, lenders and other financial services, where the most sophisticated fraudsters operate, exploiting blind spots that...
June 11, 2025
From prompt to prototype: AI tools for developers
We’re rolling out our AI Development Toolkit, a set of new AI tools to help you get from 0 to 1 faster. These tools are built to work...
June 10, 2025
Unlock smarter lending with our ecosystem partners
Plaid is expanding our partner ecosystem to include credit analytics, technology, and software providers to make cash flow data more accessible and usable at scale.
June 09, 2025
Announcing Instant Pay-Ins on Plaid Transfer
Plaid launches real-time pay-ins via Request for Payment—now powering instant payments for Carvana vehicle purchases.
June 06, 2025
Product Updates - June 2025
In the leadup to Plaid Effects, we continue to ship a range of powerful new features and improvements across the Plaid platform. Highlights include smarter account verification flows,...
June 04, 2025
Agents in Action: Leveraging AI to improve our core product experiences
Plaid is using AI and AI agents to enhance product experiences. Today we are highlighting two AI Agents: AI Annotator, which accelerates data labeling for model training, and...
June 02, 2025
Powering Smarter Pay-by-Bank in the UK with Visa and Plaid
Visa’s A2A payments are live in the UK with Plaid as the Open Finance Network behind it. Together, we’re enabling secure, one-click pay-by-bank with real-time settlement and scalable...
May 29, 2025
Introducing Transactions for Business: Powering real-time business tools
Transactions for Business brings real-time, business-specific categorization to SMB accounts, powering smarter business financial tools. Learn more.
May 22, 2025
Plaid Link: A decade of innovation in connectivity & conversion
While Plaid has expanded to provide solutions for payments, cash flow lending, consumer onboarding, and anti-fraud, Link remains core to our mission and the starting point for 750,000...
May 22, 2025
The Next Phase of Developer Tools with Anthropic and Plaid
On May 1, we launched our first integration with Claude, Anthropic’s state-of-the-art AI assistant, enabling you to run diagnostics and analytics in a chat format. Starting today, you...
May 21, 2025
Connect your Plaid integration to agents built with OpenAI
You can now connect OpenAI agents directly to Plaid’s developer tools using our Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server.
May 19, 2025
Enhanced Access Management for Plaid Dashboard
Security has always been foundational at Plaid, but today, we’re taking a major step forward for our enterprise customers. We’re rolling out a new set of security and...
May 13, 2025
Using ML to counter GenAI with new identity verification features
Plaid IDV now includes powerful new tools that make it even harder for fraudsters to manipulate or bypass the verification process—while also enhancing the user experience for good...
May 08, 2025
Transforming Engineers: How we grew AI coding adoption at Plaid
One of our top priorities this year is to help all Plaid engineers become AI power users. The problem facing us was how to change the habits of...
May 07, 2025
People at Plaid: Building with heart, leading with impact
At Plaid, we’re building a future where financial systems work better for everyone. But we’re not doing it alone. Our team is full of thoughtful, creative people who...