Pension freedom has created a greater need for at retirement advice, but consumers also have pressing advice needs around reducing debt and protecting their families. Employers provide a pension, but can they play a role in advice too? What about other areas of financial planning, can employers be expected to take the load?

Apptio, the provider of cloud-based Technology Business Management (TBM) software, announced new Contract and Asset planning capabilities for its IT Planning Foundation application. Combined with existing planning functionality, CIOs, IT finance teams and budget owners now have detailed visibility into their resource investments in labor, traditional and cloud-based vendor contracts and IT assets.

Thomson Reuters, the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), an affiliate of the Islamic Development Bank Group, and the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (CIBAFI), today launched a new Indonesia Islamic Finance Report titled “Prospects For Exponential Growth” at a ceremony in Jakarta. The study was prepared in strategic partnership with CIMB Islamic Bank.

StockViews, the London-based equity research platform, has appointed Thomas Balk, the ex-head of Fidelity International, as Chairman.

“The fintech investment figures seen in the KPMG & CBInsights reports reflect the rude health the industry finds itself in across the globe. Taking a closer look it is evident that most fintech unicorns are in payments and lending. However these multiple trillion dollar sectors are just the first two and there is potentially so much more to come. I firmly expect the next unicorns to arrive in fintech ‘niches’, with each market niche reaching anywhere between $10-50 billion.

JetBlue (Nasdaq: JBLU) and Barclaycard today announced the launch of the new suite of JetBlue MasterCard credit cards, the latest complement to JetBlue’s TrueBlue loyalty program. The new JetBlue® Card features a limited-time 10,000 bonus points offer and an easy-to-earn travel rewards program. Cardmembers can earn accelerated TrueBlue points in new ways for everyday spending at restaurants and grocery stores. With the new card, cardmembers can earn award flights even faster.

Headquartered in Florence, Mass., Florence Bank is a mutually owned savings bank operating nine branch locations throughout the Pioneer Valley region. 

Florence Bank has been meeting the personal and business banking needs of its community since 1873. Using the Advisor for Relationship Lending solution customers and loan officers alike will now experience a faster, more streamlined approval process. The bank now has additional tools to grow its commercial lending portfolio, minimize risk and enhance regulatory compliance. 

With the launch of CreditWise, Capital One is the first major bank to offer a credit monitoring tool - free of charge - to everyone, even people that don’t have a product with Capital One. Capital One’s new CreditWise is available in the Apple App Store and online at www.capitalone.com/creditwise.

essDOCS' flaghsip offering - CargoDocs - provides a holistic paperless trade solution enabling the creation and management of original electronic Bills of Lading & supporting documents, speeding up processes such as presentation to banks under trade finance instruments including eUCP Letters of Credit, Documentary Collections and Bank Payment Obligations. Proven to deliver significant value to the entire supply chain, CargoDocs enables importers, exporters, traders, ship operators and banks to streamline processes, reduce working capital needs and risk, while improving collaboration, co