Plaid incident
Instant Payment Transfer Rails Unavailable And Delayed ACH Processing
Plaid experienced a critical incident on February 24, 2026 affecting API - Production, lasting 19m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
API - Production
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 24, 2026, 02:54 AM UTC
Instant Payment Transfer rails are temporarily delayed. This applies to Instant Payouts (RTP and FedNow) and RfP (Request for Payments). ACH Transfers are unaffected for now. We are actively monitoring and will update this incident as it is resolved.
- resolved Feb 24, 2026, 03:14 AM UTC
We think the impact from the issue is over.