In 2017, Plaid made significant progress by adding support for over 9,700 banks for Transactions, 2,300 banks for Auth, and 1,200 banks for Identity. They also redesigned Link to increase consumer trust, improve security, and optimize user conversions. Additionally, they released significant improvements to their core API with new client libraries and cloneable sample code, as well as a stateful sandbox. Plaid plans to continue enhancing its services in 2018.