Significant drop in suspicious matches detected in Europe and Africa; corruption in soccer decreased globally ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Jan. 09, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – After consecutive years of detecting rising numbers of suspicious matches, match-fixing at all levels of global sport registered a notable decline in 2024, according to the annual integrity report (Integrity in [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent pardon granted by the Korean Football Association to 100 former and current soccer players, coaches, and referees who had been suspended or disciplined for various irregularities, including match-fixing, has caused a public uproar. This pardon includes 48 of the 50 players who were suspended in 2011 for [...]
LONDON, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Sportradar Integrity Services, a unit of Sportradar (NASDAQ: SRAD), the leading global sports technology company, supplying sports integrity solutions to more than 150 sports federations, leagues, law enforcement and state authorities, today announced the launch of the Sportradar Integrity Exchange, a network that enables bookmakers to report suspicious betting activity, [...]
LONDON and ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The detection of a record number of suspicious matches exposes the serious, ongoing threat match-fixing presents to the integrity of global sport at all levels as the amount of money bet on sports reached record heights in 2021. This is a key finding of a [...]
NEW YORK and ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Sportradar Integrity Services, a global supplier of sport integrity solutions and partner to over 100 sports federations and leagues, has detected more than 1,100 suspicious sports matches since the start of the global pandemic in April 2020, with 655 of those matches detected in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A symposium taking place on October 20 and 21 at Korea National Sport University (KNSU) will focus predominantly on one subject: a statistical approach to detecting match fixing. Although match fixing is a persistent issue faced by the sports industry, because is often done discreetly between individuals, the activities [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The government announced Thursday it will form a task force on handling corruption in sports in light of a widening match-fixing scandal in professional baseball. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said its senior sports policy officials met with leaders of five pro sports federations Thursday to discuss [...]