Integrity Report Q3 2023 IBIA

The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA)

represents many of the largest regulated betting
IBIA reported a total of 50 sports betting alerts to relevant authorities operators in the world. IBIA’s principal goal is to protect
its members, consumers and partners, such as sports
concerning 8 sports during Q3 2023* bodies, from fraud caused by the unfair manipulation of
sporting events and associated betting. The association
combats this fraud with evidence-based intelligence,
principally obtained from its global monitoring and alert
system.

IBIA’s membership represents:

Total alerts: Total alerts: Total alerts: Total alerts: Total alerts: Total alerts: Total alerts: Total alerts:

15 13 8 7 3 2 1 1
Tennis** Football Table Tennis Darts eSports Bowls Basketball Greyhound
Racing
45+ companies with US$137bn of global betting
over 120+ betting brands turnover per annum

50% of all regulated commercial online

betting activity and 30% of all (retail and
online) regulated sports betting activity.
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* This figure may be revised in future depending on the outcome of any ongoing investigations.
** Of the 15 tennis alerts, 7 matches were provided to the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) as intelligence reports as they do not relate to events sanctioned by
the main tennis tours. However, some players engaged in those events may fall within the scope of the body’s Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP). Similarly, 8 table
tennis matches were reported on events not organised by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
 30 % breakdown
of reported alerts
3 per continent
5
60%
2 Europe
Football
Tennis
Table Tennis 14%
Darts 7
Bowls South America

Basketball
eSports*
Greyhound Racing 10%

Asia

50 Suspicious Alerts Reported

6%

5 - ASIA 30 - EUROPE 3 - NORTH AMERICA North America

Football Tennis Football Tennis Table Tennis Football Tennis

Armenia (1) Kazakhstan (1) Montenegro (1) Czech Republic (3) Czech Republic (7) Guatemala (1) USA (2)
India (2) UK (1) Italy (1) Germany (1)
6%
Israel (1) Luxembourg (1)
Romania (1) N/A
Serbia (1)
Slovenia (1)
Spain (2)
7 - SOUTH AMERICA
2 - AFRICA 4%
Football Basketball
Darts Bowls Greyhound Brazil (5) Bolivia (1)
Tennis Venezuela (1) Africa
UK (7) UK (2) UK (1)
Tunisia (1)
Rwanda (1)

Countries have been regrouped following the official UN classification except for Cyprus which has been listed under Europe.
* 3 eSports alerts reported. The eSports alerts haven’t been allocated a country as it’s not always clear where an event has been hosted.
 Q3 2023 ABC Trends
Analysis: Tennis Breakdown: UK Comparison

15 tennis alerts 11 50
reported in Q3 2023 alerts reported on UK The Q3 2023 total is the same
sporting events as the Q2 2023 total of 50

represents And it is a decrease of

33

22% - 41%
25 12 14
of the total reported when compared to
alerts in Q3 2023 the revised Q3 total of 2022 (85 alerts)
11 alerts on events in the UK is two less than
the number of alerts on UK events
for the whole of 2022.

With 15 alerts reported, Tennis was the sport with the

highest number of alerts in Q3 2023. This represents a 85
Alerts breakdown
7% increase on the 14 reported in Q2 2023, and is a
55% decrease on the 33 reported in Q3 2022.

50 48 50
However, when looking at the average number of
tennis alerts per quarter, this has decreased in
2023, with an average of 13 tennis alerts per quarter Total alerts: Total alerts: Total alerts:
Total alerts:
compared to an average of 26 per quarter in 2022 and
an average of 20 per quarter in 2021. 7 2 1 1
Darts Bowls Football Greyhound
Racing
Spotlight on North America Focus on the US

84 USA Online Sports Betting GGR

(US$m)
suspicious alerts in North America during
2018-2022
683
8,882
3 1
746
16,298
780
11
14,637
Football
852
1 Tennis
11,661
Basketball
Horse Racing
1 932
MMA 7,346
Cricket
11
1,026
4,081
11 830
1,024 1,025 1,018
1,552
371 471 812
1

1 32 19 1

Sport betting offshore Sport betting onshore

*H2 Gambling, United States Market Data, October 2023

% breakdown of the alerts reported in North America IBIA in the US

during 2018-2022
IBIA detects and reports suspicious betting on US sporting
events through its global monitoring & alert platform;
IBIA is licenced and operates across the US;
63% 13% 13% 5%
IBIA has partnered with IXUP to support exclusion mechanisms
to prevent athletes breaching their own sporting rules;
USA Dominican Mexico Canada
Republic IBIA collaborates with US sports and leagues to protect sporting
integrity.

3% 1% 1% 1% IBIA provides integrity services for its members licensed in the US and
is open to membership applications from other operators seeking to be
St Kitts
Panama El Salvador Guadeloupe
and Nevis
active in the market, as well as other markets. Please contact IBIA at
info@ibia.bet if you wish to discuss membership.
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