Plaid has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Open Banking Intermediaries, Q1 2023 report, receiving the highest scores in current offering and market presence categories. Plaid's scale, coverage, and ambition targets a global open finance ecosystem, with plans for regional expansion. The report highlights Plaid's capabilities aligning with customer priorities around acquisition and retention, risk, and fraud mitigation, as well as its industry-recognized tools for API connectivity and consumer permissions portals. With Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rulemaking on the horizon, Plaid is building tools to streamline API connectivity and make it easy for end-users to understand and manage their data sharing.