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JPMorgan says fintech middlemen like Plaid are 'massively taxing' its APIs

10 points| PieUser | 7 months ago |cnbc.com

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_1tem|7 months ago

Chase just ships broken APIs. I work with Chase APIs every day through Plaid and Akoya. There are a whole list of ongoing known issues, from duplicates, to missing transactions. JPMorgan doesn’t know how to or doesn’t want to ship a proper API.

It is not difficult at all to serve 2 billion requests a month for transaction data. A single server could handle that.

This is obviously a PR play to cut out middlemen. Related accusation: https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/exclusive-jpmorgan-h...

supportengineer|7 months ago

Why go public with this? If anything, this is a contractual issue between JPMorgan and the API user. API usage terms should have been spelled out in contracts.

salawat|7 months ago

Because there is value in ensuring the public knows their use of Plaid is adversely effecting the banking system. Plaid in it's original incarnation was a straight up ToS violation for most financial firms, as they used privileged credentials to scrape the User's transaction history far in excess of what would be expected or reasonable.

synack|7 months ago

Maybe they should design an API that doesn't require constant polling for updates? Pubsub isn't exactly new technology.