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Plaid Introduces Liabilities to Create Debt-tracking Apps, Starting With Student Loans

July 19 2019

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“Plaid is introducing a new product called Liabilities to help developers build applications around debt. For starters, Plaid is taking aim at a big problem in the U.S. — student loan debt . The product will expand to cover other kinds of debt over time, but the company wanted to start with student loans because […]

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Plaid Gives Lenders Access to Small Business Payroll Data to Speed Emergency Loan Approval

April 6 2020

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“Start-up Plaid is looking to solve a pain point in the emergency loan process: Access to payroll data. Small businesses looking to survive the coronavirus slowdown are rushing to apply for emergency government loans. But as a part of that process, they need to download their payroll data and share it with their bank, who then needs […]