Anthropic launches personal finance feature for Claude, allowing bank account connections via Plaid
Anthropic has launched a personal finance feature for Claude that connects to bank and credit card accounts via Plaid; users can ask where their money went this month, and Claude will generate a spending overview by categories such as rent and utilities, shopping, and dining. The feature provides read-only access: Claude cannot see bank passwords, nor can it transfer, manage, or invest funds, and Anthropic says it is not intended to provide investment advice. Claude can view bank names, account names and types, the last four digits of account numbers, balances and credit limits, as well as up to two years of transaction history.
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The original text explains the read-only permissions and the Plaid bridging method, so readers can judge the boundaries when connecting bank accounts to a chatbot.
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Anthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead, with a new Personal Finance feature that connects it to your bank and card accounts via the Plaid bank bridging platform. You can ask the chatbot “where did my money go this month,” for example, and it’ll create an overview with a breakdown of spending by category, including rent and utilities, shopping, and food. Claude can also answer broader questions around what bills are left before your next payday, if you can afford big purchases like holiday trips, and how much money you could be saving each month.
Its access is read-only, and with Plaid facilitating the connection, Claude doesn’t see your banking passwords and your bank doesn’t have to deal with unvetted AI bots crawling around your accounts .
Claude can’t move, manage, or invest your money, according to Anthropic, and it “isn’t designed to give investment advice.”, but it can see the bank’s name, account names, account type, the last four digits of the number associated with it, your balances and credit limits, and up to two years’ worth of your transaction history.
If you choose to give it access to all that, Claude can explain financial terms you don’t understand and answer questions about your balances and transactions.