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June 17, 2022
Migrating from ECS to Kubernetes
At Plaid, we ship fast and frequently by deploying all production services on Kubernetes clusters hosted in AWS. We run hundreds of services across tens of thousands of...
June 16, 2022
Scaling Plaid’s internal developer experience with a remote development environment
Plaid’s Developer Efficiency Team createed “Devenv”, an internal CLI tool backed by a remote environment to tackle several scaling challenges. This tool has significantly improved developer efficiency at...
June 14, 2022
Accelerating financial access in Canada
Plaid's efforts in Canada are coming to fruition in two ways: our first office opening and a major data access agreement with Royal Bank of Canada. Plaid will...
June 07, 2022
SPIN a more customer-centric engineering culture at Plaid
Plaid’s engineering team launched a SPending INsights virtual pod (SPIN pod for short) that makes it easier to collaborate cross-functionally and empower developer customers to build and scale...
June 02, 2022
Introducing Plaid’s Industry Advisory Board
Plaid introduces its Industry Advisory Board to better understand the complexities of opportunities and challenges facing all industry participants.
June 01, 2022
Plaid and Mollie join forces to simplify ecommerce for merchants across Europe
Today, Plaid is adding Mollie, one of Europe’s fastest growing payment service providers, to our Payment Partner Ecosystem. Together, we’ll provide SME merchants across the UK and...
May 26, 2022
Accelerate Spotlight: Portabl on building tools to manage your financial identity
Read on for a conversation with Plaid Accelerate cohort company Portabl’s co-founders, Nate Soffio and Alex Yenkalov.
May 24, 2022
Financial Access Newsletter - May 2022
This quarter, we’re sharing highlights from Plaid Forum, our annual conference hosted last week in San Francisco, where developers, product experts, financial institutions, and industry leaders came together...
May 19, 2022
Ushering in Fintech's Next Phase
Providing the best account-to-app connectivity will always be our top priority. We’ve made two big improvements in data quality, reliability, and coverage that are critical to enabling the...
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...
May 17, 2022
Sync: A new paradigm for building on transaction data
In this post, we’ll discuss why we’re making such a large interface update, our development process, and what this new endpoint means going forward for Plaid and developers.
May 17, 2022
Build deeper user connections with data driven insights
Gain a deeper understanding of your users' financial picture. With Recurring Transactions, you can easily access insights about the recurring inflows and outflows in a user’s credit, checking,...
May 16, 2022
Newsletter - May 2022
Learn about our newest product features, including the launch of two new endpoints and improved latency for both the Transactions and Assets APIs.
May 16, 2022
Plaid’s Data Connectivity solutions enable industry-aligned access to fintech applications
Today, we’re excited to announce our Data Connectivity solutions of industry-leading API solutions. These products makes it easy for financial services providers of all sizes to build an...
May 11, 2022
PSD2morrow: Ready, set, go!
For this month’s blog series we are featuring the PSD2 review announcement itself! The commission announced on May 10th 2022 that it would assess impact and issue a...