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Fidelity just dropped the hammer on screen scrapers to cheers, but some firms, like Plaid, are holdouts and the CFPB may wield the final gavel

The near $12-trillion Boston firm is already weaning Yodlee, FIS, Intuit, Fiserv, and Morningstar off their scraping habit by paying their fees to get cleaned-up, but stripped-back data.

Author Oisin Breen October 19, 2023 at 9:32 AM
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Figen Cecili is masterminding Fidelity's weaning of screenscrapers.
Brooke Southall and Keith Girard contributed to the editing of this article.

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Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy

October 19, 2023 — 5:47 PM
This is a story that really matters longer-term for the evolution of financial services broadly. Glad to see that APIs are coming of age. More of that!

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