{"id":2860,"date":"2021-11-05T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newbettingsites.co\/?page_id=2860"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T15:39:54","slug":"what-is-the-international-betting-integrity-association","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newbettingsites.co\/articles\/what-is-the-international-betting-integrity-association\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ibiaIn the world of betting, there will always be people keen to be engaged in nefarious methods of winning themselves money. Whether it be bribing someone in order to ensure that a bet that they want to place will be a winning one or else a group of people placing bets with the hope of manipulating the market, the reality is that the betting industry is one that is ripe for corruption. As a result, a body needs to take on the responsibility of ensuring integrity within the industry as much as possible, which is where the IBIA<\/a> comes in.<\/p>\n

The International Betting Integrity Association declares itself to be the \u2018leading global voice on integrity for the licensed betting industry\u2019. The organisation runs a \u2018Monitoring & Alert Platform\u2019 that is used to keep an out for suspicious betting activity<\/a>, which it will then flag to the concerned parties. It is an effective anti-corruption tool, aimed at detecting anything going on in the betting world that could be considered to be unusual. The IBIA works with the likes of the IOC, FIFA and gambling regulators, using their data to track any possible corruption or wrong-doing.<\/p>\n

Who Are The IBIA?<\/h2>\n

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The International Betting Integrity Association was launched in 2005 as ESSA, the betting integrity body. It changed its name<\/a> in 2019, focussing upon the representation of sports betting operators that wished to be regulated. At the time, the Secretary General of the IBIA, Khalid Ali, said that the decision was made in order to \u2018communicate who we are, what we do and where we want to be\u2019. In the years before the re-brand, ESSA had been active across six continents. The thought process was that their workload would only increase as gambling markets opened up around the world.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, the body\u2019s mission is relatively simple: to eliminate match-fixing<\/a>, spot-fixing<\/a> and other forms of corruption in sport. Members of the International Betting Integrity Association have their own licensing and regulatory obligations to live up to, in accordance with the countries that have given them a licence. On top of that, they also have a need to work with other stakeholders in the industry to \u2018address betting related corruption\u2019. They work together in order to play a role in the investigation and prosecution of guilty parties, as well as looking towards the sanctioning of those involved.<\/p>\n

Research & Education<\/h2>\n

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Whilst investigating and prosecuting those guilty of match-fixing and other nefarious methods of influencing the outcome of sports events will always be at the top of the IBIA\u2019s agenda, the body is also responsible for the education of people around such things. The IBIA believes that educating those involved in sports is crucial to improving things around sporting corruption. This involves players as well as other people sporting personnel, which the IBIA feels is \u2018key\u2019 to protecting the integrity of all sports that people both play in their own time and then bet on when relevant.<\/p>\n

As a result of this desire to educate, the IBIA supports a wealth of European Union Erasmus+ funded anti-match-fixing projects, including the following:<\/p>\n