Sportradar Launches Global Lottery Monitoring System
The European Lotteries (EL) and World Lottery Association (WLA) organisations have teamed up with betting services company and winner of the Cutting Edge Sport Award at this year’s BT Sport Industry Awards, Sportradar, to launch the Global Lottery Monitoring System (GLMS), a new platform developed for the sports betting sector.
The GLMS will provide member lotteries with monitoring of the various betting markets offered by government-authorised lotteries and for-profit-only bookmakers.
The new system will also utilise Sportradar’s technology to provide member lotteries with alerts, and a platform for users to communicate about potentially suspicious matches.
Commenting on the launch of the GLMS, Friedrich Stickler, GLMS president and EL president, said: “Both the EL and the WLA are absolutely committed to honest betting and sports integrity worldwide.
“The GLMS, powered by Sportradar, will give our members a unique, global view into betting behavior and irregular betting patterns.
“Indeed, monitoring constitutes a significant tool to detect fraud and manipulations and is a necessary step for the effective fight against match-fixing and I am confident that the GLMS will provide sport and society with a significant helping hand in keeping sport competitions safe and clean, taking the monitoring work onto a higher level.”
WLA president, Jean-Luc Moner-Banet, added: “The world lottery community is gaining momentum in its efforts to combat match-fixing and to preserve the integrity of sports.
“The launch of the GLMS is a testament to that fact.
“Our cooperation with the EL in founding the GLMS, aided by the Sportradar’s state-of-the-art technology, will help us unite our member lotteries across five continents in the fight against fraud in sports.
Also commenting on the GLMS launch, Sportradar’s CEO Carsten Koerl, said: “Our fraud detection system has been relied upon by sports federations for over a decade now and has recently been used by law enforcement agencies to initiate or support criminal prosecutions, so I am delighted to see that as well as working with them, our System will now underpin the Global Lottery Monitoring System.
“This partnership is absolutely in step with the spirit of the recent EPAS Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, which calls for practical and effective collaboration between stakeholders.
“We heed that call and look forward to working with the WLA and the EL to keep sport honest, credible and exciting”.
