From the desks of the plaid team

Debuting a new partnership with Dwolla



Date

Apr 25, 2017
Authors

Michael, Sima & Stephanie

Today we’re excited to announce our partnership with Dwolla, the bank transfer API platform, to launch a fully tokenized ACH payments integration. This marks a huge step forward in our goal to improve one of the biggest payment networks in the U.S.

Many behaviors and preferences around banking have changed over the past few years, but many security processes have been slower to change with them. Bank-to-bank transactions have only grown in popularity since they first came on the scene in the 1970s — and the need for strong security has only increased, too. While tokenization has become standard in some areas of financial services, like the credit card industry, it’s been slower to become standard practice for ACH.

With this partnership, Dwolla customers won’t need sensitive user information like credentials to ever hit their servers, and we’ll also be able to onboard and authenticate accounts to payments pretty much instantly with our Auth product.

We think collaboration is critical to making payment processes better and more inclusive, which is why we’re so excited about partnering with other leading technology companies in the financial services space like Dwolla. Interested in learning more? Check out our docs and start building here.

Authors:

  • Michael

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    Originally hailing from Washington, DC, Michael studied Computer Science at Duke University. He enjoys building on all things Plaid. When not writing code, he spends his days finding not-so-hilly running routes around San Francisco.
  • Sima

    Sima Gandhi leads Business Development and Strategy at Plaid. She joined from American Express, where she launched Bluebird with WalMart, drove American Express’s financial inclusion approach, and led strategy for new lending products. Prior to American Express she oversaw the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and managed White House and regulatory relationships at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Previously she practiced law at Simpson Thatcher. Sima holds a BA/BS in engineering from Stanford and a JD/LLM from NYU. Outside work, you can find her in yoga class or on a long stroll.
  • Stephanie

    Stephanie works on content, product, and brand marketing efforts at Plaid. Prior to Plaid, she worked at Visa rotating through functions like marketing, strategy, and partnerships. Originally from New Jersey, she is a proud Duke Blue Devil with a degree in Public Policy and English.

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