As a result, IBIA CEO Khalid Ali wants the betting industry to do more to police all facets of the activity. He called on everyone, including operators, policymakers, and sports executives, to coordinate and collaborate on sports integrity policies to reduce the risk of match-fixing in all sports.<\/p>\n
Approximately half of all the world’s global commercial online betting, which includes operators generating a combined sports betting volume of $137 billion, hold an IBIA membership. The organization sent 268 alerts to various sports regulatory bodies last year, marking a 14% increase from 2021 and surpassing the 230 alerts from 2020.<\/p>\n
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Out of the total alerts recorded for 14 different sports and 61 countries, Europe has the highest number with 126, which equals 50% of all alerts. Conversely, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Australia had 51, 25, 22, 19, and one alert, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
While it may have dropped in LatAm, tennis had the most global alerts with 102, showing a surge from 80 in 2021. Soccer followed with 67 alerts, compared to 66 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Online sports betting continues to grow rapidly throughout Latin America. As it does, according to the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA), the region will have to take the issue of integrity in sports more seriously. The IBIA’s Q1 Integrity Report shows there is a necessity for betting solutions in Latin America as Brazil makes preparations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":272624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81884,1074],"tags":[40,81904,80968],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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