DataCash and earthport have complementary solutions to the payments market and a commercial deal has been completed in which the companies will resell each others' systems to their own customers.

DataCash will promote the earthport banking network to its customers for transfer of funds and payments. earthport will promote the DataCash portfolio to its existing customers and to new prospects.

earthport will integrate a DataCash link into its UPN platform so that it will provide a seamless banking pay-in and pay-out solution for DataCash customers. Each company will mount a marketing programme of their own product/service base to the other's customer base/network.

DataCash Executive Director, Gavin Breeze, said, "Our agreement with earthport opens a wide range of opportunities for DataCash. It will enable us to provide our Card Services to new customers and offer a range of new services to our existing customers."

earthport Executive Chairman, Mike Harrison, said, "The DataCash agreement demonstrates the contribution that earthport's generic payments infrastructure can make to existing payment solution companies. We are very excited about the prospects being made available by combining our strengths with those of DataCash."