On Plaid’s website Citi, American Express, and others are listed as investors. It appears that banks aren’t against this bad practice, and are, in some cases, actually encouraging it. This makes me think that I might be missing something. Maybe Plaid has some special access to banking systems and it isn’t as bad as it seems. More @Wikipedia
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