Tag Archives: Macolin Convention

Spelpaus hits 100,000 Swedish self-exclusions 

SBC News Spelpaus hits 100,000 Swedish self-exclusions 

Spelpaus, Swedish gambling’s centralised self-exclusion system has hit the milestone of registering 100,000 users at risk of gambling harms.  Operated by Spelinspektionen, Sweden’s Gambling Inspectorate, Spelpaus was launched on 1 January 2019 as the primary player protection service of Sweden’s relaunched online gambling marketplace. By law, Swedish online gambling operators are required to connect their databases with the Spelpaus register, …

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ANJ backs Paris 2024 Objective to strengthen French sports against corruption 

SBC News ANJ backs Paris 2024 Objective to strengthen French sports against corruption 

l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) has joined French sporting bodies in support of the ‘Paris 2024 Objective’ to strengthen the fight against the manipulation of sports competitions.  Yesterday, ANJ, France’s unified gambling authority, hosted Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and executives from the Olympic and Paralympic Games to showcase French betting’s new sports manipulation monitoring system. The new system put …

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Malta placed on FATF rogue list following litany of AML discrepancies

SBC News Malta placed on FATF rogue list following litany of AML discrepancies

Malta has been placed on a greylist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – the global AML and anti terrorist financing unit of the G7.  The EU member state has previously faced international criticism regarding issues such as the Panama Papers scandal, which saw Maltese government figures implicated in establishing offshore companies encountered little legal action, as well as …

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Malta faces EU sports betting veto withdrawal

SBC News Malta faces EU sports betting veto withdrawal

Malta may have to withdraw its EU sports betting veto in order to pass the Financial Action Task Force’s Moneyval test, conducted due to concerns that the jurisdiction is a financially unsafe area, safeguarding the interests of Europe’s financial and business communities.  The FATF’s decision, based on a report by Moneyval – which serves as the Council of Europe’s anti-money …

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Sportradar strikes integrity agreement with NOC*NSF

SBC News Sportradar strikes integrity agreement with NOC*NSF

Sportradar Integrity Services has added the Netherlands Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation (NOC*NSF) to its extensive portfolio of sports authority clients. The new partnership will see Sportradar utilise its expertise gained from over 15 years of monitoring global betting markets for irregularities to assist with safeguarding the integrity of over 1500 football, basketball and darts events in the Netherlands over the …

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Nick Iliffe, Stats Perform: Integrity challenges & collaboration in practice

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Collaboration amongst stakeholders in the global sports integrity landscape is universally accepted as being vital in the fight against match-fixing and corruption writes Nick Iliffe, Integrity Intelligence Manager at Stats Perform. Attend any sports integrity conference and you will probably hear someone mention the need for collaboration within the first 15 minutes of a presentation.  Yet what is often discussed …

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GLMS call for ratification of Macolin Convention at CoE hearing

SBC News GLMS call for ratification of Macolin Convention at CoE hearing

Ahead of the release of the upcoming PACE Report, representatives from the Global Lottery Monitoring System (GLMS) have called for further ratifications of the Macolin Convention, in a bid to crack down on suspicious betting activity. Attending the October 1 Hearing of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in …

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Denmark urges further EU collaboration on Macolin Convention

SBC News Denmark urges further EU collaboration on Macolin Convention

The Danish contingent of the Council of Europe has called for European Union (EU) member states to further address matters pertaining to the fight against corruption and sports integrity. It comes as a bid to ensure that the EU is fully participating in the Macolin convention, which aims to establish a cross-border legal framework to combat match-fixing. The Danish delegation …

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Britain’s sports integrity strategy outlined in 2018 Action Plan

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The Sports Betting Integrity Forum (SBIF) has published its Sport and Sports Betting Integrity Action Plan 2018 (SBI Action Plan), outlining Britain’s ongoing approach to the integrity of sport and sports betting. Stating that “we do not believe that we have an endemic problem in Britain,” the necessity to eradicate complacency and raise awareness and education in the fields of …

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