Sportradar brings bet monitoring solution to global handball games

Sportradar Integrity Services will enter the arena of global handball after inking a deal with the sport’s top body for its fraud detection solution

Sportradar Integrity Services will go in the arena of planetary handball after inking a trade with the sport’s whirligig physical structure for its put-on spying solution.

The keep company has signed a multi-year arrangement with the International Handball Federation (IHF) to supervise world(a) handball events. Sportradar testament wreak its bet monitoring know-how to the game, providing its Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) for the men’s and women’s World, Jnr and Youth World Championships, as substantially as the IHF Super Globe.

IHF President Dr Hassan Moustafa commented: “We recognise the modern-day unity threats that human face worldwide sport, and handball is no exception.

“The IHF makes it a pinch precedence to have robust measures in station to aid safeguard the unity of our major events, not simply at men’s and women’s senior level, but also at youth and junior level.

“Sportradar have a proven rails record book inwards the theatre of sports integrity, and the depth of their wager monitoring capabilities testament aid to bread and butter our boilersuit unity programme inwards the years ahead.”

According to the company, its UFDS sees betting patterns analysed by a squad of wholeness experts who flagstone any suspicious activity which is then reported to Sportradar’s partners. During its 16 years of operation, Integrity Services has detected over 6,500 suspicious matches, with more than 750 inwards 2021 alone.

This answer has proven popular with other sporting organisations, with Sportradar having recently in agreement(p) to monitor games for two swelled European basketball associations, as intimately as the International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) 3x3 world-wide events.

Concerning its in vogue(p) partnership with the IHF, Integrity Services MD Andreas Krannich added: “We are delighted to partner with IHF to aid financial backing their wholeness programme with our UFDS bet monitoring solution.

“We feature witnessed rising wholeness issues inward handball over the past quint years, and so we credit entry the vigilance shown by IHF in adding to the integrity provisions surrounding their events.”