2025-07-30
Hundreds of millions of people rely on fintech and digital finance products, with great benefit. Reducing access and limiting competition in financial services hurts consumers.
Financial Times
A US trade group for 30+ fintechs and aggregators says JPMorgan's plan to charge for data access could cost some firms 60% to over 100% of their annual revenue
Start-ups say having to pay for consumer's financial information would run them out of business
2022-05-05
@jay_ssh Wow! Jay, you took interviews with Plaid & asked probing questions multiple times over the past few years, and your team sent repeated RFP's (under NDA!) to us asking for tons of detailed data. I wish y'all the best with these products, but surprising to see the methods.
TechCrunch
Stripe launches Financial Connections to let its customers pull their users' banking data directly, debuting first in the US for $0.10 to $1.50 per API call
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
2020-03-31
Very excited to finally get financial data directly into Excel! Let the vlookups begin! https://blog.plaid.com/...
VentureBeat
Microsoft debuts a Family Safety mobile app and AI-powered PowerPoint and Excel features as part of its 365 Family and Personal subscriptions, coming April 21
Microsoft today announced that on April 21, Office 365 will become Microsoft 365, or “the subscription for your life.”
2020-03-10
Impressed to see Sequoia do this. Have seen many VC's ignore portfolio company protests and invest in competitors recently. Hopefully others will take heed. https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Sources: Sequoia is giving away $21M to Finix, a payments startup it recently funded, as it walks away from deal over alleged conflicts of interest with Stripe
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
2020-01-14
Wow. Today has been surreal. I'm so incredible proud of the company that the @Plaid team has built over the past 7 years. Today's announcement is a huge milestone for our company, customers, bank partners, and the fintech ecosystem! https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Visa is buying Plaid, which helps popular fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, for $5.3B
- Visa is buying Plaid in a deal worth $5.3 billion — roughly double the start-up's last private valuation. — Plaid's API software lets start-ups connect to users' bank accounts a...