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# Changelog - 2017 Year in Review

**Baker Shogry**  
Updated on March 02, 2018

Going into 2018, we wanted to take a look back at the product launches and improvements of last year in our final [Changelog](https://blog.plaid.com/may-changelog/) of 2017.

## Bank coverage

As you can tell from our [announcements](https://blog.plaid.com/1000-identity/) [about](https://blog.plaid.com/300-identity/) [improved](https://blog.plaid.com/1500-institutions/) [coverage](https://blog.plaid.com/more-products-for-more-banks/), we made a lot of progress adding new banks and products in 2017.

All told, you can find Plaid working with:

- 9,700+ banks for Transactions
- 2,300+ banks for Auth
- 1,200+ banks for Identity

...with more to come soon. If you’re interested in coverage, we also published a full analysis of the [number of banks in the US](https://blog.plaid.com/how-many-FIs/). You can find a full list of financial institutions via our [docs](/content/docs/api/#all-institutions/index.html).

## Link

We fully [redesigned Link](https://blog.plaid.com/inside-link-design/) in 2017, with a focus on increasing consumer trust, improving security, and optimizing user conversions. We also added a set of customization features, including:

- [Higher-quality analytics and custom overlays](https://blog.plaid.com/link-analytics-and-customizations/) so Link matches the existing look and feel of your application
- [Improved search](https://blog.plaid.com/improved-search/) to accommodate common abbreviations and improve brand alignment with financial institutions
- [Copy](https://blog.plaid.com/link-copy-customization/) and [institution display](https://blog.plaid.com/link-institutions-flexibility/) customization features
- Password manager support for iOS

In the coming months, we'll be releasing our React Native SDK.

Redesigned Plaid Link. Read more about its design evolution [here](https://blog.plaid.com/inside-link-design/).

## API

In March, we released [significant improvements to our core API](https://blog.plaid.com/improving-our-api/) with [new client libraries](/content/docs/resources/index.html) and cloneable sample code. We also redesigned our [API docs](/content/docs/api/index.html) and added a stateful sandbox (Note that we will be deprecating our legacy API on September 30, 2018.)

...with lots more to come in 2018! Stay tuned.