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{{Infobox company<br />
| name = PayDirect<br />
| industry = [[payment service provider]]<br>[[money transfer service]]<br />
| fate = closed<br />
| founded = March 2000<br />
| defunct = November 22, 2004<br />
| parent = Yahoo!<br />
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'''Yahoo! PayDirect''' was the name of a person-to-person [[money transmitter|money transfer service]] by [[Yahoo!]] via [[HSBC]], competing with [[Billpoint]] and [[PayPal]].<br />
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Yahoo launched PayDirect in March 2000 after purchasing Arthas.com, a provider of electronic billing services. Arthas' dotBank.com service allowed customers to make online bill payments and to exchange money with other customers. When Yahoo took over the site, the accounts were managed by the international bank HSBC.<br />
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In 2000, Yahoo extended the Yahoo PayDirect service to mobile phones, as part of its Yahoo Everywhere initiative.{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}}<br />
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Yahoo PayDirect was initially launched with CIBC National Bank as the financial partner (based in Maitland, Florida, and a subsidiary of CIBC - one of the major Canadian banks). The service was subsequently migrated to [[HSBC]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}}<br />
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The Yahoo PayDirect service was discontinued effective November 22, 2004, leaving only a web page ([http://biz.yahoo.com/paydirect biz.yahoo.com/paydirect]) showing "The PayDirect service and website is closed and now unavailable."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yahoo to close online payment service |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6309341 |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=NBC News |date=22 October 2004 |language=en |archive-date=2023-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313145949/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6309341 |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Billpoint]]<br />
*[[PayPal]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Discontinued Yahoo! services]]<br />
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