Visa Buys Plaid

Re:Visa Buys Plaid by JensRantil on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @05:14AM (#22043419)

I work for a popular european competitor of Plaid, Tink (https://tink.com). We don't do screen scraping, but use the banks' own APIs. These days we also ride on the european bank directive "PSD2" which gives us the right to aggregate financial data from financial providers such as banks. That means we aren't breaking an Terms of Services with banks!

...and yes, we support 2FA. ;)

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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by bicx on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:02AM (#22045277)

This is a lot easier because European banks all use similar APIs (as far as I've been informed). The US has no such bank API standardization in place. Most banks don't have APIs at all.

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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by colourgarden on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @05:47AM (#22043583)

Note that a SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN is shown when trying to access tink.com at the moment. Says the certificate is only valid for cloudfront.net.

Edit: the website itself also returns a 403.

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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by JensRantil on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:50AM (#22044285)

Weird. Works for me now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by mst on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:06AM (#22044789)

Lancaster, England, Windows 10, Firefox, working perfectly for me as well.

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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by brian_herman__ on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:09AM (#22044818)

Works for me Chicago, IL, USA Chrome 79.0.3945.117 Useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36 Running on Debian Linux 10

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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by duiker101 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:09AM (#22044032)

Very cool! Maybe you could enlighten me as to why it seems that no one support Transferwise? They have an API but all this services snub them

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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by mritchie712 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @05:35AM (#22043520)

does Plaid actually "screen scrape" though? I thought they did the same thing (use the banks API's)

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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by JensRantil on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:49AM (#22044280)

Apparently they don't seem to do it with all their integrations at least: https://www.insider.com/jpmorgan-announces-partnership-with-...

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