The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has signed a key agreement in Brazil to improve the monitoring of match-fixing.
The sports betting integrity cooperation agreement between the IBIA and Brazil’s Ministry of Finance will allow both parties to share information regarding suspicious betting activity in the country.
The new Brazilian regulatory framework mandates that operators looking to be licensed must join an independent sports integrity monitoring body such as the IBIA.
Regis Dudena of the Ministry of Finance’s Secretary of Prizes and Bets said: “Cooperation with the IBIA will add to SPA's work in combatting the manipulation of sporting events. And together we will mitigate this problem on a global scale.”
Khalid Ali, CEO of the IBIA, said the body “welcomes the government’s increased focus on creating a robust sports betting integrity ecosystem to tackle match-fixing.”
He said the partnership will look at “detailed customer account data that is only available to the IBIA and its members.”
