Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has entered into a partnership with Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, in an effort to protect sporting integrity across the continent. The two parties, which have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, will now begin considering projects they can collaborate on or support each other with. Such activities will include the exchange of expertise, statistical data, information and trends in relation to the integrity of sports. “In order to try and stop match fixing, stakeholders from many different areas need to work closely together,” Europol deputy director Wil van Gemert said. “I look…

iGaming Business – Betradar, the sport betting data brand of Sportradar, has announced that Swedish state-run gambling operator Svenska Spel has deployed the firm’s live odds service for its betting offering. The launch sees Svenska Spel follow fellow Scandinavian state lotteries Veikkaus and Norsk Tipping in opting for the service. Betradar said its live odds services offers a fully automated and integrated in-running trading service, featuring a range of live betting sports and markets. The Betradar live betting portfolio covers 15 different sports and more than 12,000 matches per month. “The market demand has stretched Svenska Spel’s resources to the…

iGaming Business – Sports and betting-related data company Sportradar has announced a new partnership with the Australian Rugby Union, the country’s national governing body of rugby union. Under the agreement, Sportradar’s Fraud Detection System will monitor fixtures featuring Australian teams in the Super Rugby competition – which also involves teams from New Zealand and South Africa – as well as international Test matches held in Australia for signs of betting-related corruption and fraudulent activity. The system tracks betting odds across hundreds of different betting operators around the world in real-time. Earlier this week, Sportradar extended a similar partnership with Football…

From iGaming Business Swiss sports and betting-related data services supplier Sportradar has launched a new live scoring system in partnership with the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The new system will cover about 50,000 matches per season from all of the ITF’s Pro Circuit tournaments with data set to be sourced directly from match umpires. The ITF schedule compromises more than 1,000 tournaments per year and the new system will enable Sportradar to expand Betradar’s live betting services. Sportradar started working with the ITF in 2012 to collect and supply live data from selected tournaments to the media and betting industry….