IBIA reports 42 suspicious betting alerts in the first quarter of 2022

IBIA reports that the total for the first quarter represents a 39% reduction compared to the 69 cases in the last quarter of 2021. It is also a similar decrease compared to the first quarter of 2021, in which 64 alerts were registered.

Breaking down the alerts by discipline, three sports had 80% of the alerts reported during the quarter:

• Tennis (14 alerts)
• Football (10)
• Table tennis (10)

The remaining 20% is distributed as follows:

• Volleyball (4)
• Billiards (3)
• E-Sports (1)

On the other hand, from a geographical perspective, European sporting events continued to provide the highest number of alerts at 55% of the total in the first quarter, followed by Asia at 24%.

Regarding this report for the first quarter of 2022, Khalid Ali, CEO of IBIA, emphasized that the alerts are very changeable from one quarter to another, although he values the considerable decrease registered in the period ending in March.

“That drop is more noticeable given that those alerts come from a substantially widened membership base in first three months of 2022, with the association set to become the leading integrity provider in the newly opened markets of the Netherlands and Ontario and pushing across US states. That growth means that IBIA’s leading global integrity network is now significantly above the $137bn in annual betting turnover reported in 2021,” he explained.

IBIA mentions other key data for the first quarter of 2022:

• 57% decrease in tennis alerts (14) compared to 33 in Q4 2021
• 50% of table tennis alerts from matches played in Germany (5 out of 10)
• 23 countries reported alerts on sporting events
• 6 alerts in six different sports

We must remember that The International Betting Integrity Association is the leading global voice on integrity for the licensed betting industry. It is run by operators for operators, protecting its members from corruption through collective action.