PlaidThe numbers game: Unpacking the numbers that control how we send and receive moneyU.S. banks have debit card numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and routing numbers to control how we send and receive…Oct 20, 2016Oct 20, 2016
PlaidPayPal’s history of fighting fraudIn PayPal’s earliest days, fraud threatened to topple the peer-to-peer payment giant. Credit card chargebacks were soaring, criminals were…Oct 19, 2016Oct 19, 2016
PlaidHow Venmo does P2P without feesVenmo, the popular peer-to-peer payments application, and its fee structure — or lack thereof — has been subject to a fair amount of…Oct 18, 2016Oct 18, 2016
PlaidSorting out Same Day ACHIn an era of increasing demand for instant gratification, the slowness of the ACH system has become especially pointed.Oct 17, 2016Oct 17, 2016
PlaidCooperative gameplay (and its potential in fintech)Gamification has found its way into financial services at many levels and is used for many purposes, including encouraging savings…Oct 12, 2016Oct 12, 2016
PlaidPart 2: Anatomy of a bank heistIn a windowless office on the eighth floor of a nondescript annex building, in a Bangladeshi city of 15 million people, sit four servers…Oct 7, 2016Oct 7, 2016
PlaidPart 1: What is SWIFT?SWIFT, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is the world’s largest electronic payment messaging system…Oct 6, 2016Oct 6, 2016
PlaidU.S. consumers want banks to empower them with data accessThe U.S. fintech ecosystem continues to grow quickly. But broadly speaking, it is still early innings for consumer adoption of digital…Oct 5, 2016Oct 5, 2016