A report from the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has shown that the organisation received 219 alerts of suspicious betting activity in 2024.
This is a 17% rise on 2023’s figure of 187 alerts, however, despite this surge, the IBIA noted that the amount remained 11% below the annual average of 245 observed between 2020 and 2023.
Europe was the biggest improvement in the latest report, with the continent’s total suspicious betting notifications falling from 113 alerts in 2023 to 80 last year.
Khalid Ali, IBIA CEO, commented: “The integrity position remains relatively consistent with previous years, with the focus of suspicious betting remaining primarily on football and tennis. A geographical shift away from European sporting events was observed, but it is too early to determine if this is an ongoing trend.”
Once again, both football and tennis made up the majority of alerts, across 12 sports, and combined, accounted for 61% of the total, with football recording the highest number of suspicious betting alerts at 75. Table tennis again ranked third for suspicious alerts with 36.
In total, 53 countries throughout the year saw suspicious betting alerts, with the Czech Republic seeing the highest number with 19, followed by Turkey at 11.
Meanwhile, alerts in Asia surprisingly went from 17 to 40, while Africa’s total increased from 16 to 28.
“As with all potentially corrupt activity, IBIA is analysing the data and working with its members and global integrity network to implement targeted countermeasures,” continued Ali.
“IBIA’s growing membership are resolute in their commitment to identifying, disrupting, and preventing corrupt sports betting activity and to working with stakeholders.”
Membership of the association represents more than 70 companies with an annual global betting turnover of £240bn, which covers 50% of all regulated commercial online betting activity.
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