Week Ending 2026-07-10

Newly-created accounts now receive the enriched transaction payload by default. The _embedded.messages[] projection — the per-network clearing/authorization message detail behind each transaction — is now included on transaction.created and transaction.updated webhooks by default for any account created on or after 2026-07-09, no opt-in required. Existing accounts are unchanged: every account that predates the switch was seeded into an exclusion list, so your current webhook shape is preserved. If a new integration cannot accept the _embedded projection, contact your Account Manager (or [email protected]) to opt out.

Failed 3DS verifications on Mastercard cards now tell you why, matching the Visa/Stripe behavior shipped last week. When a Mastercard verification fails, failureReason now carries the issuer's issuerMessage and a real category/code decoded from the network transStatusReason, instead of collapsing every Mastercard failure into a single generic authentication-type reason. Your retry and cardholder-messaging logic can now branch on the same structured fields across all networks. Additive — no change required.

You can now subscribe to banklink.completed. The event fires when a Plaid bank-link enrollment finishes (via hosted-link completion or the PATCH /bank-links/{id} path); the payload carries the bankLinkId and the discovered bankAccounts.

The Bank Linking flow now has a full integration guide and an importable Postman collection. A new documentation cluster covers the bank-first → card-linking journey end to end (create link → Plaid connect → detect completion → link cards → receive feeds), and the banking API is now published as its own importable definition (astrada-banking.json) so integrators can pull it straight into Postman, kept in lockstep with the OpenAPI spec. No API change — documentation for the already-available bank-linking surface.

Visa (VBDS) simulate-ingestion is now live in the sandbox, completing the per-network simulate coverage announced at sandbox launch — you can now inject synthetic Visa clearing/authorization activity the same way you already can for Mastercard (SmartData) and Amex (GL).
sandbox field renamed: the sandbox-only synthetic-card count field is now newCards (was numberOfSyntheticCards.