Sportradar Integrity Exchange launches
Global sports technology company unveils new network to help bookmakers report suspicious betting activity
Sports data supplier Sportradar has today announced it will be stepping up its efforts to safeguard sport with the launch of the Sportradar Integrity Exchange – a new initiative provided by Sportsradar Integrity Services to help bookmakers report suspicious betting activity.
Provided at no cost, the Integrity Exchange will enable bookmakers to enhance their understanding of the global match-fixing landscape by giving them a two-way channel on which they can share information and raise integrity-related concerns with Sportradar’s team of integrity experts.
The service will use exclusive data-driven intelligence about match-fixing to enable bookmakers to play a more active role in combating suspicious betting, with monthly and quarterly reports that feature the latest insight and analysis helping to make it easy for them to initiate integrity investigations globally.
Each bookmaker that signs up for the service will receive an onboarding session with one of Sportradar’s dedicated integrity experts, as well as access to online education tools including webinars covering three main topics – anti match-fixing, match-fixing theory and social media integrity.
Rounding out the initiative, bookmakers will also receive an annual report detailing the latest global match-fixing trends, breakdowns of betting activity by region and market and a list of the sports that are most likely to be manipulated, including information about the types of competition most at risk.
Speaking of the potential of the new Integrity Exchange, Sportradar Integrity Services managing director Andreas Krannich said: “The Sportradar Integrity Exchange is a key part of our integrity vision to tackle match-fixing, and follows the Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) of bet monitoring for sports organisations that we made free of charge last year.
“It means that we can address corruption from different aspects of the industry – it’s the flip side of the same coin and is the next step in our strategy to fight the growing match-fixing problem.”
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that supplies integrity solutions to more than 150 sports federations, leagues, law enforcement agencies and state authorities. Over the past 17 years, the company has identified over 6,600 suspicious matches, with 903 of these falling in 2021 alone.