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Innovation in Compliance

Innovation in Compliance: Governing AI Well Deepens Enterprise Risk Strategy

Welcome to the award-winning Innovation in Compliance. In this episode, Tom welcomes back Gerry Zack, and they discuss the growing use of AI in compliance and the launch of Eastward AI.

Gerry Zack brings a practical, cautionary perspective to AI-powered compliance and risk management, shaped by 18 months of advising organizations on how AI is being used in real compliance programs. He sees AI already embedded in functions like hotline support, policy-to-risk mapping, website scanning, behavioral analytics, transaction monitoring, and even parts of investigations, while warning against overreliance on it in sensitive investigative work. As one of the architects of Eastward AI, he helped evolve the platform from a CSRD and double-materiality tool into a flexible compliance and enterprise risk management solution that supports frameworks such as COSO ERM, DOJ guidelines, ISO 37301, and ISO 31000. Overall, Zack believes the real opportunity lies in reducing organizational paralysis, using AI responsibly, and connecting compliance more closely with HR, IT, and other risk functions to strengthen leadership and decision-making.

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Gerry Zack on ⁠LinkedIn⁠

⁠RiskTrek⁠

⁠Eastward AI⁠

Tom Fox

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: July 20, 2026, The AI Making Job Harder Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to 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 five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. NY state bills could create AI compliance obligations. (The National Law Review)
  2. GRC professionals say AI makes their jobs harder. (CCI)
  3. AI for tighter supply chain compliance. (SupplyChainDive)
  4. Pastors using AI to write sermons. (WSJ)
  5. Compliance as a commercial lever. (FinTechGlobal)

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

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI in Healthcare

AI in Healthcare: Five Healthcare AI Stories You Need to Know This Week – July 17, 2026

Welcome to AI in Healthcare in 5 Stories. This podcast is a weekly briefing on the five most important AI developments shaping healthcare, medicine, and life sciences. Each week, Tom Fox breaks down the latest stories on clinical innovation, regulation, privacy, compliance, patient safety, and operational transformation through a practical, business-focused lens. Designed for healthcare compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, clinicians, and industry leaders, the podcast moves beyond headlines to explain what each development means in the real world.

The top five stories for the week ending July 17, 2026, include:

  1. Moving AI from pilot to production in pharma. (Lab Manager)
  2. Autonomous AI and patient safety. (Digital Journal)
  3. Compliance in AI home healthcare. (MedCityNews)
  4. Mark Cuban says AI is making healthcare worse. (BusinessInsider)
  5. Healthcare needs to simplify its AI stack. (HealthCareITNews)

For more information on the use of AI in Compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: July 16, 2026, The Simplifier Stack Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to 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 five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Texas AI law: a business guide. (Hackernoon)
  2. AI resistance as a matter of faith. (CCI)
  3. AI deepfakes compromise hiring compliance. (SIA)
  4. AI is fueling the start-up boom. (Bloomberg)
  5. Healthcare needs to simplify its AI stack. (HealthCareITNews)

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

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: July 15, 2026, The That Backfired 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, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

Top stories include:

  • Meta is alleged to have used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs. (Reuters)
  • Top Politburo member ousted for corruption. (NYT)
  • US workers are more productive. It’s not AI, it’s WFH. (NYT)
  • Employees are pushed to use AI. What was the result? (FT)

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: July 15, 2026, The Banning Data Centers Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to 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 five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. From reactive to proactive in revenue performance management. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. AI and the coming compliance crisis for insurance. (InsuranceEdge)
  3. NY state set to ban big data centers for one year. (WSJ)
  4. AI could create new divides in financial services. (Bloomberg)
  5. Mark Cuban says AI is making healthcare worse. (BusinessInsider)

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

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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Innovation in Compliance

Innovation in Compliance: AI Compliance at the Speed of Content with Kunal Vankadara

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits Kunal Vankadara, CEO & Co-founder of Haast, to discuss how AI can help regulated organizations scale compliance as content volume explodes and regulatory scrutiny increases.

Vankadara believes AI-powered compliance automation is especially valuable in content review because many decisions are subjective and context-driven, such as judging whether a disclaimer is sufficiently prominent. In his view, LLMs can be trained on a company’s risk tolerance to apply those standards consistently at scale, reducing false positives and sending only gray-area issues to human experts. As AI-driven content creation and regulatory scrutiny continue to grow, he sees this approach as a way to make compliance faster, more reliable, and less of a bottleneck.

Key highlights:

  • AI-driven content surge overburdens compliance teams
  • Training Agents to Match Company Risk Tolerance
  • Teaching AI Risk Tolerance Beyond False Positives
  • Compliance agents as digital twins for content
  • Sanctions and Regulatory Changes into Actionable Intelligence

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Connect with Kunal Vankadara on LinkedIn

Haast

Innovation in Compliance was recently honored as the Number 4 podcast in Risk Management by 1,000,000 Podcasts.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: July 14, 2026, The Bank Run in Seconds Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to 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 five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Star Compliance reshapes ELT. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. Agentic compliance issues: AI v. Humans. (Security BLVD)
  3. Meta drops AI photoshopping feature. (TechCrunch)
  4. AI could create new divides in financial services. (ETFStream)
  5. Could AI trigger a bank run in seconds? (Banking Dive)

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

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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FCPA Compliance Report

FCPA Compliance Report: Episode 815 – AI in Compliance and Eastward AI’s Continuous Risk “Reality Check”

Welcome to the award-winning FCPA Compliance Report, the longest-running podcast in compliance. In this episode, Tom welcomes back Gerry Zack, and they discuss the growing use of AI in compliance and the launch of Eastward AI.

Zack says many organizations are uncertain and paralyzed, while others range from using ChatGPT at a basic level to building or buying specialized tools rather than seeking a “big machine.” AI is now embedded across compliance functions, from hotline chatbots and policy/control mapping to monitoring, investigations (which Zack cautions against over-automating), and behavioral analytics. Eastward AI began as a CSRD double-materiality assessment tool but expanded to encompass broader enterprise and compliance risk management, aligned with frameworks including COSO ERM, DOJ expectations, ISO 37301, and ISO 31000. Zack describes development with a skilled programming team, beta “design partners,” and a “Reality Check” feature that rapidly scans global information to update risk assessments and support scenario modeling continuously. This combination has drawn interest from CCOs, CROs, GCs, and strategy leaders. Eastward.ai is now publicly available.

Key highlights:

  • AI in Compliance Today
  • Eastward AI Origin Story
  • MVP and Design Partners
  • Reality Check Feature
  • Scenario Modeling and Strategy
  • Expanding Compliance Remit

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Gerry Zack on LinkedIn

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Eastward AI

Tom Fox

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The FCPA Compliance Report was recently named the world’s Best Business Ethics Podcast by FeedSpot.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: July 13, 2026, The AI as Sludge Buster Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to 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 five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Blueprint for successful AI AML implementation. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. Ex-Mayo Director Alleges Retaliation After AI Dispute (Minnesota Lawyer)
  3. AI changing the build vs. buy Q. (BankingDive)
  4. AI can be a financial sludge buster. (FT)
  5. Apple alleges OpenAI stole confidential information. (Bloomberg)

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

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.