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2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 78 – A Brave New World 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:

SBF Applies for Pardon
Post Wells Issues for Profit Disgorgement
Sad Day for College Sports
Hungary uses AI to track Orban’s corruption
Meetings are Useless
Big Banks and New Tokenization
OFAC fines FTI
What is MNPI
The compliance job market
A Florida man writes on the whiteboard outside the house that he is not home. Arrested nonetheless

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Betting the Game: Athlete as Bettor – Governance, Education, and Integrity Risk in a Mobile Betting Era

Betting the Game is a 10-part podcast series exploring how sports gambling reshaped the business, culture, and integrity of athletics across professional and amateur sports. Hosted by Tom Fox and Mike DeBernardis, the series examines the real-world collisions between betting markets, athlete conduct, institutional oversight, and public trust. Each episode looks at a different pressure point, from player betting and college sports to prop bets, insider information, and the governance failures that can put the credibility of competition at risk. At its core, the series asks a simple but urgent question: as gambling became mainstream in sports, did ethics, compliance, and oversight keep pace?

In episode two of “Betting the Game,” Tom and Mike examine athlete gambling as a sensitive threat to sports integrity in a legal, mobile, and normalized betting environment, arguing that the issue is fundamentally one of legitimacy and governance rather than optics alone. They discuss how frictionless app-based wagering increases the risk for insiders with access to information and influence over outcomes, even in the absence of match-fixing. Using NFL suspensions (e.g., betting from team facilities or on prohibited sports), the Jontay Porter NBA case (alleged manipulation of player prop outcomes, lifetime ban, and wire fraud charges), and MLB’s lifetime ban of Tucupita Marcano for betting on baseball, they emphasize that punishment must be paired with year-round, scenario-based training, aligned commercial and integrity messaging, early-warning monitoring and escalation systems, confidential Q&A channels, club accountability, and a culture that reinforces integrity before violations occur.