“The preventive measures we\u2019ve introduced have produced positive results”, said the AFC General Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Asia.- The Asian Football Confederation<\/em><\/strong> has revealed match-fixing across the region has fallen 21 percent over the past six years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Data to support the drop was provided by Sportradar and proves the confederations efforts to combat match-fixing are having a positive impact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Benoit Pasquier, AFC General Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs, said that Sportradar had played a significant role in the reduction of match-fixing related incidences and illicit activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFrom 2016 we\u2019ve witnessed a decline in match-fixing across Asia by 21 percent and with our efforts in tandem with Sportradar, the preventive measures we\u2019ve introduced have produced positive results,\u201dhe told mews agency Reuters..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oscar Brodkin, Director of Intelligence and Investigation Services at Sportradar, added: “Most of Asia sits in the sweet spot of low wages and high coverage and is, therefore, one of the highest risk areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPlayer wages in Asia are generally lower compared to places such as Europe but paired with the growing viewership of football in the region, leads to higher stakes allowed on the betting market and thus the opportunity for large-scale fraud.\u201d “The preventive measures we\u2019ve introduced have produced positive results”, said the AFC General Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) reports a 21% reduction in match-fixing across Asia over the past six years, attributing this success to collaborative preventive measures with Sportradar. Despite this progress, Sportradar highlights Asia as a high-risk region for large-scale betting fraud due to lower player wages and increasing football viewership.","focusai_entities":"Asian Football Confederation, AFC, Sportradar, Benoit Pasquier, Oscar Brodkin, Reuters","focusai_location":"Asia, Europe","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.95), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AFC's next anti-fixing strategy?","query":"What specific enhancements to the AFC's governance frameworks and B2B integrity partnerships are planned to further mitigate match-fixing risks, particularly in identified high-risk Asian sub-regions?"},{"label":"Impact on operator licensing?","query":"How will the ongoing prevalence of match-fixing opportunities in Asia, despite the reported decline, influence regulatory bodies' assessment of operator licensing conditions and compliance obligations for market entry or expansion?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,158,155],"tags":[96,1944,4176],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-slider-home","category-sports-betting-news","tag-asia","tag-match-fixing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008558,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/777008558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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