Plaid is used by thousands of digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by many of the largest banks to make it easy for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe. The company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Salt Edge specializes in intercommunication and interoperability between FinTech and banks, banks and other banks, as well as banks and loan companies. Being the middleman, They can enrich the aggregated data and bring additional value to their clients. By using machine learning and AI, by analyzing financial data They can do everything from categorization and merchant identification to Health Check APIs, KYC facilitation on top of Aggregation.
Tink was founded in 2012 with the aim of changing the banking industry for the better. They have built Europe’s most robust open banking platform with the broadest, deepest connectivity and powerful services that create value out of the financial data. They offer the tools that allow anyone from big banks and fintechs to startups to build the future of financial services across Europe.