Brussels, 15 April: During the first quarter of 2016, 11 instances of suspicious betting patterns were reported to the relevant authorities by sports betting integrity body ESSA, which represents many of the largest regulated international sports betting operators.

Brussels, 18 September 2014: The European regulated betting industry welcomes the Council of Europe’s Convention on match-fixing, which aims to prevent the manipulation of sports results. The EGBA, ESSA, and the RGA, believe that it represents a relatively positive and potentially significant development in the fight against sport and betting...

Brussels, 15th May 2014: The regulated betting industry welcomes the main findings of a European Commission funded study on sports organisers’ rights in the European Union. The study (see link) finds that there is no legal basis nor rationale for an EU-wide right to consent to bets (i.e. “sports betting right”).

Mike O’Kane, Chairman of ESSA the integrity body for licensed betting operators, stated that his organisation “fully supports tough sanctions against any player, official or other party that engages in corrupt activity designed to manipulate sporting events to defraud bookmakers and their customers.”

Brussels, 5 June 2012: Europe’s leading sports betting operators have released integrity statistics for 2011 which show a similarly small number of betting corruption alerts as the previous year. The impressive figures demonstrate the value of the sophisticated detection, deterrent and risk assessment protocols employed by those operators in protecting consumers and the sport and betting products from corruption.

Brussels, London 26 April 2012: The gambling trade associations, the RGA, EGBA, and ESSA, along with EU Athletes and the Professional Players Federation celebrate today the first year anniversary of their joint betting education programmes (see link). They call on the sports world to enter discussions about an agreed overarching set of principles for a sports betting integrity education programme that can be adapted to local circumstances.

Für Khalid Ali, Generalsekretär der jüngst gegründeten European Sports Security Association (ESSA) ist die IGE in London ein gelungener Jahresauftakt 2009 für die ESSA und die gesamte Branche. “Die IGE ist die erste Gelegenheit im neuen Jahr, mit fast 25.000 Vertretern aus unterschiedlichen Geschäftsbereichen ins Gespräch zu kommen. Die Messe ist eine einmalige Chance für uns, wichtige Botschaften unserer Organisation ESSA zu übermitteln und dafür zu werben sowie mit neuesten Entwicklungen und Technologien Schritt zu tragen.

Khalid Ali, the recently appointed Secretary General of the European Sports Security Association (ESSA), has given a ringing endorsement to the 2009 International Gaming Expo, which runs between Tuesday 27 and Thursday 29 January at Earls Court, London and incorporates the casino-focused ICE and remote gaming sector ICEi. Ali has described IGE 2009 as ‘a perfect way to kick off 2009 and a fundamental part of our organisation’s communication initiative and calendar’.