INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft has partnered with San Francisco-based fintech startup Plaid to develop a new software app called Money in Excel
The collaboration will allow people to automatically import their bank and credit card account data into the personal finance tool
are connected via a Plaid Link from within Excel
Users can then import transactions and account balances automatically via connections with over 11,000 financial institutions in the USA,
Canada and also Europe.Plaid says that in the US it supports nearly every institution from the major retail banks to community credit unions
Money in Excel users will get a monthly snapshot that features personalized charts and graphs, collated from your data
The fintech app can be further customized using templates that are most relevant to your spending patterns, flagging up key areas such as
