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Plaid Check

Plaid Check provides Consumer Report products for credit, lending and verification decisions, using consumer-permissioned financial data to produce insights about income, assets, employment and financial stability. Plaid's official documentation identifies it as Plaid's CRA subsidiary and describes modules for income, home lending and underwriting.

No separate Plaid Check homepage was found in the official sources fetched; the official documentation presents Plaid Check as Plaid's CRA subsidiary/product family rather than an independently branded website. Products are available only to US entities and for evaluating US consumers, according to the documentation.

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OCC / FDIC / Federal Reserve / CFPB / NCUA2019-12-03 · Current posted supervisory guidance

Alternative data in credit underwriting — interagency statement →

Addresses consumer-protection opportunities and risks from alternative underwriting data, including cash-flow data. Encourages analysis of applicable laws and compliance controls before deployment; it does not exempt a model from consumer-protection requirements.

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