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Compliance Tip of the Day

Compliance Tip of the Day – Winnie the Pooh and Compliance Week – Tigger and Sales Incentives

Welcome to “Compliance Tip of the Day,” the podcast that brings you daily insights and practical advice on navigating the ever-evolving landscape of compliance and regulatory requirements. Whether you’re a seasoned compliance professional or just starting your journey, our goal is to provide you with bite-sized, actionable tips to help you stay ahead in your compliance efforts. Join us as we explore the latest industry trends, share best practices, and demystify complex compliance issues to keep your organization on the right side of the law. Tune in daily for your dose of compliance wisdom, and let’s make compliance a little less daunting, one tip at a time.

We begin a week of fun in compliance by looking at how Winnie the Pooh and his friends inform your compliance program. We start by using Tigger to examine sales incentives within a best practices compliance program.

For more information on this topic, refer to The Compliance Handbook: A Guide to Operationalizing Your Compliance Program, 6th edition, recently released by LexisNexis. It is available here.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: November 10, 2025, The Use AI or Be Fired Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest edition of the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest related to AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. 5 Pillars for AI Compliance. (Medical Economics)
  2. Use AI or be fired. (WSJ)
  3. Is AI something more than intelligent? (NYT)
  4. Voice phishing is AI fraud. (FT)
  5. Is AI spending out of control? (Bloomberg)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, my new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com

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Sunday Book Review

Sunday Book Review: November 9, 2025, The Top November Business Books Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest compliance professionals, business executives, or anyone with a curiosity. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or any other topic that might interest Tom. Today, we review four top business books for November as recommended by the FT.

  • Playful by Cas Holman
  • The Art of Less by Mats Alvesson and André Spicer
  • Click Here by Alex Schultz
  • The Seven Rules of Trust by Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner

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10 For 10

10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, November 8, 2025

Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings to you, the compliance professional, the compliance stories you need to be aware of to end your busy week. Sit back, and in 10 minutes, hear about the stories every compliance professional should be aware of from the prior week. Every Saturday, 10 For 10 highlights the most important news, insights, and analysis for the compliance professional, all curated by Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance. Get your weekly filling of compliance stories with 10 for 10, a podcast produced by the Compliance Podcast Network.

Top stories this week include:

  • Indonesia is looking into Chinese corruption over the high-speed train. (SCMP)
  • The tariff argument goes poorly for the Administration at the Supreme Court. (Reuters)
  • Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund votes against Musk’s $1tn pay package. (WSJ)
  • NBA Reports to Congress on Gambling Probe. (The Athletic)
  • Capula’s former CCO claims retaliation for whistleblowing as the reason for termination. (Bloomberg)
  • BaFin slaps €45MM fine on JPMorgan. (FT)
  • Trump threw a temper tantrum over corruption Q. (The Daily Beast)
  • SBF says trial ‘fundamentally unfair’. (FT)
  • State capture and corruption. (The Guardian)
  • Sex dolls, compliance, and Shein. (WSJ)

You can check out the Daily Compliance News for four curated compliance- and ethics-related stories each day, here.

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: November 7, 2025, The Do $1tn Pay Packages Really Incentives You Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world, including compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest, relevant to the compliance professional.

Top stories include:

  • NBA Reports to Congress on Gambling Probe. (The Athletic)
  • Capula ex-CCO claims retaliation for whistleblowing in termination. (Bloomberg)
  • BaFin slaps a €45 million fine on JPMorgan. (FT)
  • Will Elon Musk really work harder for a $1 trillion pay package? (NYT)

The Daily Compliance News has been honored as No. 2 in the Best Regulatory Compliance Podcasts category.

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2 Gurus Talk Compliance

2 Gurus Talk Compliance – Episode 63 – The Farewell to the Tall Guy Edition

What happens when two top compliance commentators get together? They talk compliance, of course. Join Tom Fox and Kristy Grant-Hart in 2 Gurus Talk Compliance as they discuss the latest compliance issues in this week’s episode!

Stories this week include:

  • Boeing hit with $5bn in late fee penalties. (BBC)
  • All about FATF. (Bloomberg)
  • Will Tesla lose Musk (w/o $1tn pay package)? (Yahoo!Finance)
  • Does insider trading = insider betting? (Bloomberg)
  • Tom Hayes sues UBS for $400M. (Reuters)
  • SEC Chair Talks Messaging Enforcement, Misses the Point – Radical Compliance
  • Corruption Probe Underway at Rio Tinto’s Mongolian Copper Mine – WSJ
  • Facebook’s new holiday ad pines for a social platform that’s long gone – Fast Company
  • CEOs Are Furious About Employees Texting in Meetings – WSJ
  • Florida man arrested after making bomb threat against himself: police – WFLA

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Compliance Tip of the Day

Compliance Tip of the Day – NBA Betting Scandal – Rebuilding a Culture of Integrity

Welcome to “Compliance Tip of the Day,” the podcast that brings you daily insights and practical advice on navigating the ever-evolving landscape of compliance and regulatory requirements. Whether you’re a seasoned compliance professional or just starting your journey, our goal is to provide you with bite-sized, actionable tips to help you stay ahead in your compliance efforts. Join us as we explore the latest industry trends, share best practices, and demystify complex compliance issues to keep your organization on the right side of the law. Tune in daily for your dose of compliance wisdom, and let’s make compliance a little less daunting, one tip at a time.

This week, we will mine the ongoing NBA betting scandal for compliance lessons. Today, in this concluding Part 5, we conclude by looking at what the NBA itself can do to rebuild trust with its stakeholders.

For more information on this topic, refer to The Compliance Handbook: A Guide to Operationalizing Your Compliance Program, 6th edition, recently released by LexisNexis. It is available here.

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ACI FCPA Conference 2025

ACI-FCPA Conference Speaker Preview Series – Ricardo Wagner de Araujo on Potential Trouble in your (Latin American) Supply Chain

In this episode of the ACI-FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption Conference Speaker Podcasts series, Ricardo Wagner de Araujo discusses his panel at the event, “Managing New Risks in Latin America: A Look at the Biggest Ways Cartels/TCOs Are Infiltrating Businesses and Supply Chains, and How Companies Are Responding.”

Some of the issues the panel will discuss are:

    • The changing risks in Latin America.
    • How TCOs and cartels exploit 3rd party relationships.
    • Tips for adapting your compliance programs in Latin America.

I hope you can join me at the ACI–FCPA Conference. This year’s event will take place on December 3-4 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The lineup of this year’s event is simply first-rate, featuring some of the top FCPA professionals, white-collar attorneys, and compliance practitioners in the field.

The 2025 program is being completely redesigned to help your organization stay agile, responsive, and ahead of the curve. Expect a dynamic agenda shaped by real-world priorities, practical takeaways, and the most cutting-edge thinking in compliance—led by a faculty of global practitioners with boots on the ground, encountering the very risks that come across your desk.

Please join me at the event. For information on the event, click here. Listeners of this podcast will receive a discount by using the code D10-999-CPN26.

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Compliance and AI

Compliance and AI: Future-Proofing Compliance with AI: Strategies for 2026 and Beyond

What is the role of Artificial Intelligence in compliance? What about Machine Learning? Are you using ChatGPT? These questions are just three of the many we will explore in this cutting-edge podcast series, Compliance and AI, hosted by Tom Fox, the award-winning Voice of Compliance. Vince Walden, founder and CEO of KonaAI and Dr. Hemma Lomax, Head of Business Integrity at Docusign discuss the evolving landscape of compliance and the increasing role of AI and automation.

They highlight the need to modernize due diligence processes, reducing large, repetitive tasks down to streamlined operations using AI. A key focus is the innovative use of AI agents proposed by Hemma, likening them to digital employees, with personalized job descriptions and onboarding plans aimed at enhancing efficiency and unleashing human talent. Vince shares practical examples of how AI can transform compliance functions by leveraging data insights from various sources like investigations, third-party risks, and employee surveys. The episode encourages compliance professionals to dream big about the future, embrace AI-driven innovation, and crowdsource intelligence to bridge the gap towards more efficient and intelligent compliance practices.

Key highlights:

  • Introduction to Modern Due Diligence
  • The Role of AI in Compliance
  • Creating and Managing AI Agents
  • Empowering Teams with AI
  • Real-World Applications and Examples

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: November 7, 2025, The Fran Tarkenton and AI Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest edition of the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Agentic AI rewriting rules for financial services compliance. (Charlotte Business Journal)
  2. Trump’s AI Czar says there will be no federal backstop for OpenAI’s data center. (CNBC)
  3. A moral compass for AI. (TechBuzz)
  4. Does AI contribute to brain rot? (NYT)
  5. Fran Tarkenton is jumping into the AI race. (Bloomberg)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, my new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.