Plaid - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement/payments

Plaid and Square partner on easier online ACH payments

For many ecommerce businesses, ACH payments debited directly from bank accounts provide a lower-cost, more accessible alternative to credit cards.

20 May 2021

Company announcement

US Bank and Plaid take Open Finance to the next level

A collaboration between U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest bank in the U.S. and Plaid, the digital finance innovator with more than 11,000 financial institutions in its network, brings enhanced simplicity, transparency, and security to U.S. Bank customers who want to connect their accounts to third-party apps.

14 May 2021

News/retail

US Bank and Plaid ink data sharing deal

US Bank has teamed up with Plaid to enable the lender's millions of customers to connect their accounts to third party apps.

13 May 2021

News/payments

Railsbank and Plaid form embedded finance partnership

Banking-as-a-service platform Railsbank is to provide customers with embedded access to Open Banking services for account-to-account payments from Plaid.

06 May 2021

Company announcement/payments

Paysend and Plaid team on open banking payments

Across the world, Covid-19 has reshaped our financial lives, with economic uncertainty accelerating financial polarisation and local lockdowns increasing the adoption of digital technologies to help manage consumers’ changing financial needs.

27 April 2021

News/regulation

Will smart divergence set the UK apart post Brexit?

During a panel session for UK Fintech Week 2021, moderator Kristy Duncan, founder and CEO of Women in Payments noted that while the UK and EU benefits from a progressive regulatory regime which favours innovation and competition, fintechs are hindered by regulatory challenges including lack of enforcement and passporting headaches.

21 April 2021

News/retail

Plaid hits $13.5 billion valuation on $425 million funding round

Open banking platform Plaid has raised $425 million in Series D financing at an estimated valuation of $13.5 billion.

07 April 2021

Company announcement/wealth

DriveWealth connects with Plaid

DriveWealth, LLC, a leading global brokerage infrastructure platform, today announced a partnership with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem, that enables mutual customers of the companies to simplify online investment account funding via one API integration.

30 March 2021

Company announcement/startups

Plaid fintech accelerator names inaugural cohort of startups

We’re excited to announce Plaid’s FinRise inaugural cohort of five early-stage fintech startups.

25 March 2021

News/payments

Plaid beta tests payroll authentication tech

Plaid is launching an income verification product, streamling the application for consumer loans by bringing payroll data into the Open Banking ecosystem.

05 March 2021