AINewsAnthropicClaude AI can plug directly into your bank accountWith access to your bank account via Plaid, Anthropic\u2019s chatbot will try to explain where your money is going and what you can afford.\ufeffWith access to your bank account via Plaid, Anthropic\u2019s chatbot will try to explain where your money is going and what you can afford.\ufeffby Jess WeatherbedNov 5, 2026, 6:00 PM UTCShareGiftImage: AnthropicJess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.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 \u201cwhere did my money go this month,\u201d for example, and it\u2019ll 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\u2019t see your banking passwords and your bank doesn\u2019t have to deal with unvetted AI bots crawling around your accounts.Claude can\u2019t move, manage, or invest your money, according to Anthropic, and it \u201cisn\u2019t designed to give investment advice.\u201d, but it can see the bank\u2019s 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\u2019 worth of your transaction history.If you choose to give it access to all that, Claude can explain financial terms you don\u2019t understand and answer questions about your balances and transactions.Personal Finance in Claude is rolling out in beta this week to Claude Pro, Max, and Ultra plan subscribers in the US.<\/p>\n
Anthropic\u2019s announcement follows OpenAI introducing a similar feature for ChatGPT in May, which also plugs into your bank accounts through Plaid. Allowing AI to have oversight into your finances might ring some alarm bells, but according to the sign-off in Anthropic\u2019s press release, it\u2019s just the beginning:\u201cPersonal Finance is a first step. For life\u2019s bigger money decisions, we think people are best served by Claude working alongside the licensed professionals and regulated firms they trust. We\u2019re exploring how to make that possible in Claude, and we\u2019d like to hear from banks, wealth managers, and financial services companies who want to help shape it.\u201dFollow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Jess WeatherbedAIAnthropicNewsMost PopularAnker\u2019s new window-mounted camera monitors the outside of your home from within itSam Altman addresses RAM comments: People should \u2018put as much as they want in their computers\u2019Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fakeMy therapist thinks I should chuck the Amazon Bee Frontier out a windowDiscord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAMAdvertiser Content FromThis is the title for the native ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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