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The Badminton World Federation has signed a long-term, broad-based agreement with Stats Perform for sports data and integrity leader Stats Performance to provide the BWF Integrity Unit a range advanced integrity services to improve its protection of the game.
This partnership will increase the BWF Integrity Unit’s ability to investigate suspicious betting activity in badminton matches. It is also part of ongoing deterrent initiatives against possible corruptors of the sport.
The BWF continues to monitor the betting markets in real time for suspicious activity.
This partnership allows the BWF, where possible, to collect intelligence on matches and competitions which may be linked to suspicious betting activity.
The BWF Integrity Unit has a comprehensive suite of tools that the Stats Perform partnership gives them. Stats Perform partners not only monitor betting markets but also provide intelligence analysis support, integrity education and its groundbreaking performance integrity analysis service.
Thomas Lund, Secretary General of BWF, stated that Stats Perform will help strengthen our commitment to protect the integrity and fair play of the sport against betting-related corruption.
“We now have industry-standard resources to monitor suspicious betting activity at HSBC BWF World Tour events and BWF Major Championships.”
Carl Mergele, CEO of Stats Perform, stated that “The BWF is a key partner in Stats Perform and we’re proud of the trust it placed in us to develop the sport commercially as well as protect it from harm.”
Jake Marsh, Global Head for Integrity Services at Stats Perform said that “We are thrilled to add BWF into our stable of customers and deliver a progressive approach in integrity risk management that will involve us working closely with international governing bodies’ own integrity unit to protect sport from match manipulations and related threats.”
