The Swedish Gambling Authority (SGA) has signed an agreement with Sportradar’s Integrity Services, expanding its efforts to fight gambling-related corruption and match-fixing.
Under this new agreement, Sportradar’s integrity arm will help the SGA by monitoring certain sporting events in Sweden and notifying the regulator when it flags any suspicious activity.
Sportradar’s Integrity Services division leverages the provider’s data capabilities to identify any potential instances of illicit activity by analyzing unusual betting patterns and behavior.
Sportradar has closed several partnerships in recent months
Sportradar has in recent months signed several agreements for its integrity service offering with, among other entities, Athletes Unlimited, the Brazilian Football Confederation, the World Baseball / Softball Confederation and, from now on, the SGA.
With the provider’s usual monitoring of bets, the regulator will also be able to acquire risk assessments. As the name suggests, these will be reports assessing the risk level of specific sports in relation to betting manipulation.
“Through the information we will receive via Sportradar, we will increase our knowledge of match-fixing that we can use, among other things, in our regulatory work,” said Daniel Frisö-Grön, Investigator at SGA.
Frisö-Grön continued: “It also gives us opportunities to expand the exchange of information with sports authorities and the police as part of our collaboration against match-fixing.”
This comes after Sportradar published a report detailing its 2021 betting monitoring efforts. Last year, the provider discovered suspicious activity in 903 games, up 2.4% from 2019’s record 882 games.
In addition, Sweden is seeing growth in the online gambling and betting segment, as detailed by the SGA earlier this month. Therefore, the partnership signed with Sportradar serves as a preventive action to ensure the integrity of national sports.
