Claude Money: Anthropic Wants to Connect Claude to Your Bank Accounts

Anthropic has begun testing a new personal-finance feature called Claude Money. It will let users connect their bank accounts directly to Claude in order to, as the company promises, “get a handle on their money”: learn about their spending, make plans and ask other finance-related questions.

The feature was spotted by the TestingCatalog project: a Money section has appeared in the Claude app for iOS, alongside the existing Chats, Code, Artifacts, Dispatch and Cowork tabs. The corresponding page carries the invitation “Get a handle on your money with Claude” and a “Get started” button for linking an account. For now, though, the feature is unavailable to most users — mentions of Claude Money surfaced in the app ahead of any official announcement, so there are very few details.

It is not yet known which banks will be supported, exactly how accounts will be connected, or whether the feature will be limited to the United States or even to particular states.

Similar to ChatGPT Finances

The idea is nothing new: competitors are already exploring similar tools. OpenAI has an analogous Finances feature in ChatGPT that, via the Plaid service, lets you link bank accounts, credit cards, brokerage and other financial accounts. Once connected, ChatGPT answers questions about spending, bills, subscriptions, savings, net worth and investments. OpenAI emphasizes that it does not train its models on users’ personal data, and it claims support for more than 12,000 financial institutions in the US.

The article’s author suggests that Anthropic will follow a similar path with a limited rollout, and would not be surprised if Claude Money never makes it to Europe because of local data-protection laws.

It is worth noting that not everyone shares the enthusiasm for trusting chatbots with the most sensitive thing of all — their finances. In the comments under the original piece, readers skeptically wonder whether there really will be people willing to connect a bank account to an AI, especially given the events of recent weeks.

Source: Bleeping Computer