Casino.org – With just weeks to go until the world’s greatest sporting tournament kicks off in Brazil, FIFA, the international governing body of football, has called on gaming operators across the globe to help them stamp out corruption and match-fixing at the World Cup.
FIFA uses the “Early Warning System” (EWS), technology that is proficient in monitoring and analyzing the global betting markets, but the system also relies on the cooperation of betting firms around the world to report any suspicious betting activity they uncover. Gambling partners share suspicious patterns with EWS via a secure communications platform, while the system maintains a flow of information with traders, compliance officers or risk managers.
FIFA has said that it does not expect match-fixing at the World Cup, because the huge level of media coverage makes it difficult for such things to go unnoticed, but it is concerned about the largely unregulated Asian betting market, which has so often been the source of corruption in sports in the past. EWS was in-play at the last World Cup in South Africa, and system concluded there were no suspicious matches there, but the rise of online betting, and crucially in-play online betting, where you can bet on practically every component of a match, has made the exploitation of games easier.
