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With increasing pressures and the potential for unethical behavior, maintaining fairness and transparency in sports is more critical than ever. In our latest blog Norman Kurta, Orion’s Director of Delivery & Product Manager, wrote about 5 major issues that a Case Management system can help sports organizations and clubs address and manage to maintain trust and enthusiasm from fans, players, and sponsors. Read the blog: https://hubs.ly/Q02KzS1j0 #sports #SportsTech #Integrity #SportsIntegrity #CurrentlyOrion #DigitalTransformation #Blog

My latest blog post for Orion Innovation delves into the importance of maintaining sports integrity and the role case management systems play in upholding the fairness in sports. 🏅 #sportstech #sportsintegrity #integrity #sportsethics #casemanagement #sports

🟢 Integrity Compliance 360 (IC360) has unveiled its new Alert360 platform. The initiative is part of an ongoing partnership with RealResponse and aims to address the myriad challenges in the dynamic sports betting landscape. 🗣️ Matthew Holt, CEO of IC360, highlighted the platform’s proactive approach: “The implementation of Alert360, powered by RealResponse, is another example of how we help our partners to stay one step ahead. An anonymous tip can help limit and prevent acts or threats of physical and emotional harm or intimidation while thwarting attempts to undermine the integrity of sports competitions.” 🗣️ David Chadwick, Founder and CEO of RealResponse, emphasized the importance of innovative solutions: “It’s critical to offer new and innovative ways for people to share concerns without the fear of reprisal. The rise of legalized sports betting has led to both expected and unexpected challenges. We simply cannot take chances when it comes to integrity, protecting our athletes, and ensuring competition remains free from manipulation or outside influence.”

📢 Introducing Alert360! As part of our continuing partnership with RealResponse, we're pleased to announce Alert360, a protected communication platform for the sports betting industry. Together, RealResponse and IC360 are committed to offering new and innovative ways for people to share concerns. 🤝 With Alert360, all communications and identities are secure and private, ensuring that anyone who has experienced threats or who may be aware of unscrupulous behavior, can report these issues anonymously without fear of retaliation. 🔒 “An anonymous tip can help limit and prevent acts or threats of physical and emotional harm or intimidation while thwarting attempts to undermine the integrity of sports competitions,” said IC360’s CEO Matthew Holt. “We simply cannot take chances when it comes to integrity, protecting our athletes, and ensuring competition remains free from manipulation or outside influence,” stated David Chadwick, Founder and CEO of RealResponse. More information can be found here 👉https://hubs.la/Q02yBPjP0 #alert #anonymous #sportsbetting #sportswagering #integrity #partnership

Integrity provisions in sports betting legislation are crucial for the fight against match-fixing and for the creation of a fair and sustainable sports betting market. This is why IBIA welcomes the recent Brazilian Ordinance 827/2024 which includes the requirement that licensed sports betting operators should join an independent integrity monitoring body. This is a best practice that should be replicated across those jurisdictions in the LatAm region, and elsewhere, which still need to address sports betting integrity or are in the process of regulating their sports betting market. Khalid Ali, CEO of IBIA commented: “With legalisation comes renewed responsibility to protect the sports betting market, sports and consumers from match-fixing. Brazil has set a high bar on integrity, but there remains a lot of work to do in the wider LatAm region. The Ordinance’s stipulation that operators in Brazil must join an independent sports integrity monitoring body is helping to drive growth in IBIA’s membership and in our ability to monitor more betting transactions in Brazil’s regulated market. Our priorities are to further strengthen our monitoring and alert network and extend our information sharing agreements with partner organisations in Brazil and across the Latin American region. Our focus must be on creating a robust sports betting integrity ecosystem across the whole LatAm marketplace.”  Read the full PR here on the IBIA's call to adopt robust sports betting integrity provisions in the LatAm region 👇

Reflecting on the recent call by the International Betting Integrity Association for Latin American jurisdictions to adopt robust sports betting integrity provisions, I am reminded of a similar call they made to #Malta 🇲🇹 around 2015. This reflection brings to mind the significant strides we have made at the Malta Gaming Authority since then. Here’s a glimplse to what we’ve accomplished since then: ✅ Established a dedicated Sports Betting Integrity Unit Equipped with specialised systems and personnel to continuously tackle related issues. 📜 Introduced legislative provisions MGA-licensed operators are now required to report any instances of suspicious betting. 🌐 Created specific reporting portals Facilitated easy and efficient reporting for operators. 🤝 Partnered with external service providers Enhanced our intelligence gathering systems through strategic partnerships. 📄 Issued industry guidance papers Amongst many different provisions, we also included recommendations for operators to join betting monitoring bodies. 🔍 Provided substantial customer-level data Supported SGBs and law enforcement with customer-level data, leading to successful investigations and prosecutions. 📈 Engaged in numerous policy projects Both locally and internationally, resulting in publications and policy changes that bolstered sports integrity measures. 📝 The list goes on … Some of these achievements were indeed recommendations addressed by the IBIA in their 2015 call. That call was one of a number of pivotal moments that fueled my personal drive to push boundaries and achieve more in this field. This collaboration between regulators and betting monitoring bodies symbolises collective, unwavering dedication to safeguarding sports and sports betting from corruption. Together, we need to champion integrity and trust. #SportsIntegrity #BettingIntegrity #GamingAuthority #MGA #LatAmGaming #SportsBetting #ResponsibleGaming #Collaboration #PolicyChange #IntegrityMatters

🏆 ⚽ The Role of Betting in Sports: Balancing Revenue and Regulation Betting in sports isn't just a game – it's a vital source of income and engagement, driving the pulse of the industry. In 2023 alone, the top 15 betting companies spearheaded over 16 million euros in digital activations, fostering more than 2.5 million impressions! However, alongside its undeniable impact, betting faces mounting legal pressure in numerous countries, sparking debates about its regulation and potential bans.  The impact of potential regulations or bans on sports betting would be significant, affecting not only the industry's revenue streams but also the broader landscape of fan engagement and the dynamics of sports culture. For now, betting companies remain pivotal in driving sports revenues, especially within the social and digital realms, where they play a significant role in boosting engagement.

❓What are the biggest threats to sports integrity in North America, both historically and currently❓How can a coherent integrity strategy be adopted across so many state markets, each with differing regulations? These are just few of the questions our Head of Global Operations Matt Fowler addresses in his interview with Insider Sport, focusing on sports betting integrity in North America. 💡 Check out Matt's insightful inputs here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eBnm97Hn

"We always say there are three very important factors: using technology, educating players and enacting policy." Important words from Guilherme Buso, as highlighted in Insider Sport, discussing the three crucial steps Brazil's sports betting industry must take to protect sporting integrity ahead of the launch of its regulated industry next year. In the piece, both Guilherme and Fellipe Fraga emphasised the shared responsibility of industry stakeholders to share information. They also explored how the NFL's growing popularity in Brazil creates a unique opportunity for EstrelaBet to offer a differentiated product by adding live streaming to its sportsbook. Read more here 👇 https://bit.ly/3XNhin3

Gambling scandals have long tainted sports. The 1919 Black Sox scandal involved eight players accused of throwing the World Series for money. Baseball superstar Pete Rose received a lifetime ban for betting on baseball, a penalty that has blocked the game’s all-time hits leader from the Hall of Fame. Point-shaving scandals have periodically roiled college basketball, and NBA referee Tim Donaghy went to prison for betting on games he officiated. Those issues, however, were largely kept at arm’s length from competition organizers, confined to the sportsbooks of Las Vegas and the national shadow network of illegal bookmakers. Sports leagues intent on preserving the integrity of their product continued to view gambling as the ultimate taboo. But as the framework for legal sports betting expanded, starting with a Supreme Court ruling in 2018 and followed by states’ own gambling legalization efforts, the sports themselves couldn’t wait to cash in. A conversation that had always taken place in the dark spilled into the open. Odds are now openly discussed on live broadcasts. Ads for betting apps seem to appear during every commercial break and are plastered around stadiums and arenas. Sports leagues even have gambling-focused programming on their official networks. The clear message is that leagues want their consumers to keep betting, believing that fans will stay glued to their televisions as long as they have money on the line. But in the rush to claim their gambling windfalls, they have created a dissonance between encouraging fans to place bets and reassuring them that the on-field outcomes remain unsullied. That became abundantly clear last weekend during a broadcast on ESPN, a network that has a business relationship with virtually every American sports league while simultaneously licensing its name to a sportsbook, ESPN Bet. In a segment featuring college basketball betting advice, host Rece Davis described one of the discussed wagering opportunities as a “risk-free investment,” language that has been banned from gambling advertising in several states. Davis later described his remark as a joke, but the incident highlighted just how intertwined sports and gambling have become. “On May 14, 2018, sports and sports betting came crashing together and will likely never be pulled apart again,” U.S. Integrity President Matt Holt said, referring to the day the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which had effectively outlawed sports betting in America. What’s at stake now is the promise that lies at the very center of the sports experience: Fans and participants must believe that what they are seeing is true. Yet as the leagues and the gamblers grow closer together, the mere suggestion that players could be motivated to manipulate outcomes has been enough to create fresh doubts.