IBIA reported 76 suspicious betting alerts in Q2 2026, up 10.1% year on year

The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) logged 76 suspicious betting alerts in the second quarter of 2026, compared with 69 in Q2 2025 and 70 in Q1 2026. For sportsbooks and PSPs in regulated markets, the point is straightforward: integrity monitoring is still producing a steady flow of cases, and the pipes between operators, monitoring systems, and regulators are doing actual work.

1. All 76 alerts were passed to the relevant authorities for investigation into possible match-fixing and irregular betting activity. IBIA said the final number could still rise as ongoing investigations are completed, which is the usual reminder that quarterly numbers are often a snapshot, not the final score.
2. The alerts covered nine sports: football led with 25 cases, followed by esports with 16, basketball with 10, tennis with 9, darts with 5, greyhound racing with 4, table tennis with 3, croquet with 3, and volleyball with 1. Football and esports once again generated the largest share of suspicious activity.
3. Europe was the busiest region, with 25 suspicious alerts, nearly 50% more than any other continent. The regional breakdown also included South America with 17, Africa with 11, North America with 3, Asia with 3, and Australia (Oceania) with 1. IBIA also recorded 16 global alerts that could not be assigned to a specific country or continent because the events spanned multiple jurisdictions.
4. Based in Brussels, Belgium, IBIA says it represents more than 90 companies and more than 200 betting brands. Its integrity monitoring network covers more than 1.5 million sporting events a year and analyses betting activity worth more than US$ 300 billion across more than 80 sports.
5. The association said its Global MAP system lets member operators share intelligence in real time, helping detect suspicious betting patterns in regulated markets. In practice, that matters because the faster operators and regulators see the same signal, the less room there is for an integrity problem to sit there and compound itself.

The report also includes a Canada section focused on Ontario and the role of regulated online gambling markets in improving channelization, though the excerpt provided cuts off before the rest of that discussion.