Plaid Launches AI Models for Credit, Fraud and Payment Risk

Plaid introduced AI models for lending, fraud detection and payment risk, according to Finextra. The models analyze cash flow and transaction sequences to support decisions by financial firms.

LendScore 2 uses cash flow data to assess a borrower's ability to repay. Plaid says it was 42% stronger at predicting repayment than traditional credit data alone. Its transformer based LendScore Arc model produced a 20% lift for deep subprime borrowers and a 24% lift for superprime borrowers in early testing.

Plaid also rolled out a foundation model for fraud detection, trained on hundreds of millions of data points from its network. Internal evaluations showed up to a 40% relative improvement over previous baselines.

The same sequential model powers Signal, Plaid's ACH payment risk system. In testing, it prevented 26% more ACH returns without increasing false flags.