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The companies, which partnered to create a new digital shopping experience, say it made sense to focus on mom and pop stores that had to pivot to e-commerce during the pandemic. These businesses will be the first to get collaborative cloud-based tools including maps, marketing and payments.

Robinhood Markets agreed to acquire Ziglu, a London-based crypto and payments company, ending the U.S. brokerage’s long pause on international expansion.

Mastercard said it’s expanding an earlier push to tie executives’ bonuses to the company’s environmental, social and governance goals.

Steve Cox is head of market insights at IRIS Software Group. A technologist and chartered accountant who looks at how technology can simplify the modern working environment, he joined IRIS in 2002. His career at IRIS has spanned many areas of the business, including customer support, engineering, product management and marketing. His most recent previous roles at IRIS include senior product director, interim CTO, chief evangelist and head of accountancy.

Eric Kaplan is a senior advisor at the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets

Daily edition for April 19, 2022

The Federal Reserve has hired five executives from the stablecoin issuer Circle and at least one employee of Ripple since 2019 as part of its technology-focused recruiting efforts. It plans to do more hiring in the years ahead to aid its work on faster payments and central bank digital currencies.

Ben Conner is president and CEO of Conner Insurance.

Cleveland-based Ancora Holdings Group is picking up where it left off in 2019, calling for the sale of Middlefield Bancorp in northeast Ohio. Only this time Ancora says it's willing to initiate a proxy contest if management stands in the way of a possible transaction.

Interest in digital assets is on the rise following an executive order from the White House and a recent report from the Fed.