Tag Archives: integrity
Switzerland – Report finds Europe had the highest number of suspicious sports matches in 2023
Sportradar Integrity Services today published its annual report, ‘Betting Corruption and Match-fixing in 2023’, detailing the company’s findings into suspicious betting on global sport. Based on the monitoring of approximately 850,000 events and matches across 70 sports, the report highlights a total of 1,329 suspicious matches in 2023, occurring in 11 sports in 105 countries. Compared…
Brazil – Sports betting integrity organization formed in Brazil
Genius Sports, Entain, Rei Do Pitaco, Bichara e Motta and Maia Yoshiyasu Advogados (FYMSA) law firms have announced the formation of the “Associação Brasileira de Defesa da Integridade do Esporte” (“ABRADIE”) a non-profit organization that will address issues threatening the integrity of Brazilian sports. According to a Genius Sports press release the association will bring…
Brazil- Match fixing on the rise in lower division football
Ten games were flagged up over suspected match fixing in 2022 in the under 20’s division of The Campeonato Gaúcho Segunda Divisão. Commonly known as Campeonato Gaúcho Série B it is the third-highest professional football league in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. According to local media, the matches were considered to be suspicious due to the unusually high betting…
Brazil – Sportradar expands integrity agreement with Brazilian Football Confederation
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and Sportradar Integrity Services have extended their agreement for three years, while increasing the number of Brazilian football competitions that will be monitored. The new three-year agreement features the addition of Sportradar Integrity Services’ Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) for bet monitoring of 27 state-level competitions, as well as Brasileiro…
The Netherlands – Dutch Football Association vows to tackle integrity threats through Sportradar partnership
Sportradar Intelligence and Investigation Services (I&I), part of Sportradar Integrity Services, will increase the integrity measures provided to the Netherlands’ biggest sports association, the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB), as part of a new multi-year agreement. Processing all publicly available information on the surface, deep and dark web, the I&I team will provide the KNVB…
LATAM – IBIA releases multi-language Optimum Betting study
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has released Spanish and Portuguese translations of the Optimum Betting Market study. The study provides a unique insight into best practice regulatory models for betting around the globe and an analysis of IBIA operators’ market and integrity data covering $137bn (€115bn) in betting turnover per annum. In addition to contributing to…
Why are lawmakers seeking to restrict and ban in-play bets?
In-play betting has been a key driver for the betting industry. Innovations in live betting portfolios have helped drive fan engagement and led to much more betting opportunities for players. However, in the opinion of many lawmakers in-play betting is linked to match manipulation and sports betting corruption. In addition, in-play betting has raised concerns…
India – Sportradar to support BCCI at the 2020 Indian Premier League
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has signed an agreement with Sportradar Integrity Services to support its Anti-Corruption Unit in monitoring and safeguarding the integrity of matches in the 2020 IPL season. As part of the agreement, all matches from the 2020 IPL – to be held in the United Arab Emirates…
US – NASCAR signs up for Sportradar’s Integrity Services
NASCAR has shown a strong commitment to protecting the integrity of their sport by announcing a multi-year partnership with Sportradar’s Integrity Services, the world’s leading supplier of sports betting-related monitoring, education, investigation and consultancy services. As part of the agreement, Sportradar’s Fraud Detection System (FDS) will monitor domestic and global betting activity for signs of…
