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Sportradar Announces Launch of Universal Fraud Detection System
Company makes landmark commitment to continue safeguarding the integrity of global sport through funding its proven and market leading bet monitoring system free of charge for sport organisations;
Supported by major sports organisations including the International Olympic Committee and the Asian Football Confederation
Sportradar Integrity Services – the leading global supplier of sports integrity solutions – today announced the launch of the Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS). Evolving from its current bet monitoring service, the UFDS will be funded by Sportradar and offered free of charge to any sports federation, or league worldwide, and will be made available in October 2021.
Since 2005, Sportradar has used its technically advanced bet monitoring system – the Fraud Detection System (FDS) – to detect match-fixing across global sport. In 2020 alone, over 600,000 matches were monitored by the FDS across 1,000+ leagues and competitions, in 26 different sports.
Across the past 15 years, more than 5,300 matches have been classified as suspicious in the FDS, and Sportradar Integrity Services has supported over 400 successful sporting disciplinary sanctions, and over 30 successful criminal convictions against those who have sought to corrupt sport. Through this landmark commitment to safeguarding the integrity of global sport, Sportradar are making the capabilities and benefits of this established and proven bet monitoring service available to all of sport. Leading up to the launch of the UFDS in October, Sportradar will be speaking to sporting bodies so they can understand the service being offered, and will continue to upscale their technology and operation to deliver this ambitious undertaking.
Carsten Koerl, Sportradar Group CEO said: “We believe that integrity is fundamental to public confidence in sport, and that wrongdoing at any tier of competition affects all levels of sports and its fans. Today marks a very special day in the history of our company, as we announce the upcoming launch of our core bet monitoring system, at no financial charge to any sports federation or league that wants to use it. By making this significant investment in integrity via the UFDS initiative, we are demonstrating our commitment to support the sustainability of sport around the globe.
“We are continuing to upscale our technology and operation to handle this considerable undertaking, and as well as providing it to new partners we have already set about discussing and implementing the UFDS with our 70+ existing FDS partners. We are very excited to launch this exciting initiative and add to the proven track record of our integrity team, by ensuring the UFDS plays a major role in protecting the integrity of the sports we all love in the decades to come.”
The IOC’s Olympic Movement Unit on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions remarked: “The IOC’s OM Unit PMC welcomes this significant commitment by its longstanding partner Sportradar. We will continue to work with all stakeholders of the Olympic Movement, notably International Federations, National Olympic Committees and multi-sports events organisers, to reach a sustainable approach towards protecting all sports from competition manipulation.”
“It continues to be important for all sporting organisations to understand the most sustainable way to protect sports from competition manipulation. Utilising this substantial investment by Sportradar with its proven and reliable bet monitoring of the global betting market can be the foundation for a holistic integrity programme. Therefore, all sporting organisations are reminded once again, that an all-encompassing approach – as in the OM Unit PMC’s specific ’3 Pillar Strategy’ – is fundamental in order to achieve sustainable and long-term results.”
Ahmed Alosaymi, AFC’s Head of Integrity, remarked: “We have worked with Sportradar since 2013, and their data-driven approach to utilising the latest technology, matched with the professional experience of their analysts, has allowed us to be at the forefront of ensuring integrity for football in Asia. With more matches happening each season, coupled with the tremendous popularity of Asian Football, ensuring we have the right partner that delivers us results is key. The AFC has worked very closely with Sportradar to bring several cases to justice. We believe that this move of the offering of UFDS will help protect the integrity of sports globally, giving leagues and federations at all levels the opportunity to safeguard their sport and competitions for all their stakeholders.”
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Logifuture’s Simulate plays AFCON final 1,000 times to predict 2026 champions
Hosts Morocco are red-hot favourites to win their first Africa Cup of Nations titles in 50 years, according to Logifuture’s Simulate feature. Logifuture’s Simulate is a pioneering sportsbook product that enhances the virtual sports-betting experience, offering a constant stream of activity with lightning-fast results. Players can replicate sports such as basketball and football over 10 seconds, 30 seconds or instantly with the ability to run up to 15 simulations at any one time.
With Morocco due to face Senegal on Sunday, the Logifuture team used Simulate to play the match 1,000 times and the results showed Morocco win 433 times (43.3%). 2021 winners Senegal came out on top in 283 matches (28%) with extra-time on the cards in the remainder.
Only one match in this year’s tournament involving Morocco has seen three goals or more and that came in the group stage. Simulate results suggest this trend will continue with 633 outcomes (67% of 1,000) having under 2.5 goals.
Early advantage could be key at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium on Sunday. In only 5% of simulations did a team go on to win in 90 minutes after trailing at half-time – at this year’s AFCON, Morocco have conceded just once meaning Senegal may have their work cut out if they were to concede early on.
Draws could yet prove decisive in Sunday’s clash, with 28% of the 1,000 simulated matches ending level after 90 minutes. Morocco reached the AFCON showpiece after taking Nigeria all the way to penalties where they ultimately won 4-2 on spot kicks.
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Nigeria will look to put their penalty shootout heartbreak behind them when they take on Egypt in the Third-Place Play-Off at the Mohammed V Stadium in Casablanca on Saturday.
The Logifuture team played this match also 1,000 times with Simulate and the Super Eagles won 467 times (46.7%) whilst Egypt came out on top 333 times (33.3%).
200 simulations saw the play-off go beyond 90 minutes with a low-scoring affair likely to be on the cards – only 267 of the simulated matches saw over 2.5 goals as 467 saw just one goal scored in the game.
Scoreless matches were rare in the simulations, with just 67 of the 1,000 games ending 0-0, highlighting that while the fixture is expected to be tight, one of the sides is likely to find the net before the full-time whistle.
Operators using Simulate have seen sportsbook GGR increases of up to 5% thanks to its advanced predictive modeling that helps optimise betting offers and player engagement strategies. The platform’s insights enable more personalised experiences for players, driving retention and long-term growth.
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Voxbet and PromptBet.ai forge a product partnership to supercharge Conversational Commerce in iGaming
Voxbet, the leading technology company which enables sports bettors to speak and type their bets, has announced a product partnership with, PromptBet.ai, an AI-powered conversational bet discovery solution already live with regulated operators, creating a powerful synergy of their proprietary betting technologies.
Following Voxbet’s successful launch with At The Races ahead of last year’s Cheltenham Festival, and PromptBet.ai’s commercial rollout with Tier-1 regulated operators, it became evident that on-platform, AI-led betting assistants demonstrated a much broader set of use cases for bettors than was initially envisaged. With these tools increasingly important as knowledge hubs, this collaboration now seeks to combine voice search and accurate prompting with unmatched speed to create a superior betting experience for effortless bet discovery, navigation, support and action.
At current peak capacity, this high-intent, mass-scale approach is able to process upwards of 100 relevant, desired requests a second – far beyond the output of any LLM, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, in this betting-focussed sector, ensuring customers have rapid, seamless access to the sporting content and entertainment that resonates at any given moment.
This collaboration will allow users to conduct bet searches within milliseconds once commanded, with PromptBet.ai’s engine serving up refined bet discovery, statistics, and customer-service opportunities to responsibly accompany any request. This collective capacity is primed to both meet and scale with the evolving expectations of AI users.
Jonathan Power, Founder and MD of Voxbet, said: “From our experience at major events with big name partners, it’s clear that AI betting assistants get asked absolutely everything. This innovative partnership with PromptBet.ai helps us meet these varied, broad audience needs, and will demonstrate how big the world of chat commerce is going to be.
“Having admired each other’s work from afar, our early meetings were extremely productive and clearly demonstrated a shared philosophy in moving a somewhat dated traditional betting UI forwards. We strongly believe there’s nothing out there to rival our winning product combination. Indeed, we quickly recognised we were both tunnelling from different ends, with obvious synergies and potential economies of scale. To which end, we’ve decided to meet in the middle!”
Matteo Monteverdi, co-founder and Chairman at PromptBet.ai, added: “Having worked in a similar space to Voxbet, we knew that our respective skill sets and product functionalities offered complementary synergies. Now we know that we can unleash each other’s areas of expertise to fulfil a market and customer need that’s crying out for a fresh look at bet interaction.
“As digital commerce shifts from interfaces to experiences, PromptBet.ai offers a B2B conversational AI platform enabling real-money gaming operators to engage players through real-time, two-way conversations across chat, messaging, and voice, moving from clicking and tapping to natural dialogue. Our platform is already live and proven with regulated sportsbooks. We’ve established a solution on the front-end, and now working with Voxbet, we’re tapping into high intent commands that are becoming ever more prevalent in gaming. Together, we solve for a common friction in digital betting – discover the content that’s relevant to you, above all on mobile.”
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Big Daddy Gaming® enters next phase of European expansion with Wildz Group partnership
Pioneering slots studio Big Daddy Gaming® has entered a new partnership with Wildz Group, marking another significant step in the studio’s European expansion strategy.
Under the agreement, Big Daddy Gaming’s slot portfolio will be made available across Wildz Group network of regulated casino brands, providing the newly launched studio with exposure across some of Europe’s most established online gaming markets.
The rollout will begin with an initial wave of Big Daddy Gaming® titles set to go live in early 2026, before expanding across Wildz Group’s wider brand portfolio throughout the year.
The deal reflects Wildz Group’s continued focus on strengthening its content offering with studios that demonstrate clear creative direction and deliver operator value. The partnership provides Big Daddy Gaming® with a strong platform to scale its content across multiple brands in Europe.
The agreement also follows Big Daddy Gaming’s recent progress across regulated markets in Europe, following a plethora of similar deals, reinforcing its strategy of shaking up the slots market with its Reel Fun Reel Value philosophy.
Erland Hellström, CEO at Big Daddy Gaming®, said: “Going live with Wildz Group is a strong signal of where we’re heading as a studio. They operate at scale across regulated European markets and have a clear understanding of what performs long term, which makes them an ideal partner for our next phase of growth.
“Our focus has always been on building games that players genuinely enjoy, without losing sight of operator performance. Seeing our early releases rolled out across Wildz Group brands gives us real confidence that our approach is landing as intended and sets a solid foundation for continued expansion across Europe.”
Sven de Waard, Head of Casino at Wildz Group said: “Big Daddy Gaming’s early releases show a strong understanding of what players actually enjoy, paired with a commercial approach that gives operators confidence. This combination reflects exactly what we look for in a partner as well as demonstrating a studio capable of making a real impact in the slots market.
“We’re looking forward to seeing how their titles are received across our brands and believe they will make a strong impression with players.”
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