The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has released its latest suspicious activity results.
The not-for-profit betting monitoring body reported 42 instances of suspicious betting activity to authorities in Q3 2024, down from 50 alerts for the same period last year.
The results in Q3 were also a significant decline from the 91 alerts reported in Q2 2024.
In Q3, soccer and tennis led all competitions in suspicious activity with both sports having 14 alerts each making up 67% of the IBIA’s total reported alerts during the quarter. The IBIA reported suspicious soccer activity in four continents with Africa leading the way with five alerts. By comparison, suspicious tennis activity was also identified across four continents but no reported incidents in Africa. Instead, the IBIA reported suspicious tennis alerts in Asia, Europe, North America and South America. Europe lead all continents for the most alerts for tennis activity at nine alerts with Serbia reporting the most.
In Q3, Serbia posted three suspicious alerts behind two alerts in both Italy and Poland.
“The third quarter saw football and tennis register the highest number of alerts, albeit those numbers are in line with those seen in recent years and, in the case of tennis, represent a significant decrease compared to its peak,” said IBIA CEO Khalid Ali. “We continue to work closely with the integrity authorities for those sports, and indeed all sports, where we see suspicious betting, with the aim of detecting and sanctioning corrupt activity to protect sporting events and betting markets.”
The IBIA’s latest report also includes eSports but does not tie the results to specific regions due to online hosting. In Q3, there were 12 alerts of suspicious esports activity giving the competition the second-highest rate of suspicious activity behind tennis and soccer.
The eSports results in Q3 were a 75% decline compared to the activity reported in Q2.
The IBIA monitors more than $300 billion in handle annually from across 125 brands. The body has a membership that includes some of the largest operators in the world. Its members include Bally’s, DraftKings, Entain, Flutter, Kindred and Kambi.
Earlier this year, the IBIA also added Genius Sports as a member as part of a partnership.
