Alloy Partners with Plaid to Expand Access to Risk Solutions as AI Threats Increase

Alloy’s platform will now directly integrate Plaid solutions to improve risk management in onboarding and underwriting, making it fast and easy to test and implement new tools to stay ahead of fraud

Alloy, a leading identity and fraud prevention platform provider, announced a partnership with Plaid, a global data network powering the digital financial ecosystem, to provide more financial institutions with improved digital tools to fight back against AI-driven fraud. In the past two years, the amount of money stolen by scammers and fraudsters rose 9.2%, largely driven by use of artificial intelligence. As financial institutions combat this increasing threat, the partnership enables Alloy clients to more easily build a holistic picture of customer identities from the start, lowering fraud losses and automating more of their KYC/KYB/AML workflows to reduce manual reviews.

“AI is rapidly reshaping the risk landscape for financial institutions, and the best way to keep up is to embrace AI to fight it,” said Adam Yoxtheimer, head of partnerships at Plaid. “Companies like Alloy make it easy for banks to adapt and embed AI-powered tools and signals to see outside the walls of their institution. Together, we’ll help more institutions test and deploy the solutions needed to better understand risk and defend against fraud.”

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According to Alloy’s 2026 State of Fraud Report, only 24% of financial institutions and fintechs detect fraud at the time of onboarding. That leaves most organizations detecting fraud only after bad actors are in the system and money has already been stolen. To reduce these losses, companies need to build a robust, data‑rich view of customer identities at onboarding and continue to monitor those identities on an ongoing basis. Rather than relying on a single data provider, Alloy’s data orchestration enables institutions to layer and test hundreds of identity, fraud, and compliance solutions in parallel and adapt strategies as threats evolve.

Plaid Protect combines machine learning models with cross-institutional insights to help detect fraud throughout a user’s lifecycle. Through the partnership, mutual customers can securely access Plaid Protect’s network‑level fraud intelligence directly in their Alloy workflows. In addition, the Alloy platform will now also include access to Plaid’s tools for verifying identities and assets and streamlining onboarding to build safer, more resilient experiences at scale. Clients can add these Plaid products directly from the Alloy platform, experiment with how they interact with other data sources, and roll out the combinations that best fit their risk appetite and growth goals.

Plaid expands its presence in Alloy’s industry‑leading network of over 250 partner solutions, all easily discoverable, configurable, and testable in Alloy’s Partner Center. Clients can test different configurations and utilize Plaid alongside other best‑in‑class solutions without building or maintaining separate point‑to‑point integrations.

“Alloy was built on the idea that there is no single silver bullet for fraud or compliance,” said Brian Bender, General Manager, Partner Solutions at Alloy. “Our clients need the freedom to layer, test, and evolve their data strategies as threats change. Deepening our partnership with Plaid is a natural extension of that vision.”