Brazil Signs Deal to Upgrade National Betting Oversight

Brazil is taking new steps to strengthen oversight of its betting industry. On July 3, the country’s Ministry of Finance (MF) and Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI) signed a technical cooperation agreement to improve and expand the Sigap betting management system.

Good to know

• The agreement will remain in effect for 18 months.
• Sigap tracks both operator licenses and bet activity in Brazil.
• No money will be transferred between ministries to fund the project.

The system, known as Sigap, serves as a digital platform that manages all operator authorization requests and records data from bets placed across the country. With the new agreement in place, both ministries aim to speed up Sigap’s development while also making the monitoring process more efficient.

According to the official language of the agreement, the goal is to “accelerate the development” of key features within the system and improve how bet-related data is made public—something the government says reflects its push for transparency.

One of the first steps will be hiring four temporary workers, each assigned to work on the Sigap development team. These new hires will be managed by Brazil’s MGI, and their roles will focus solely on moving the system forward over the next year and a half.

While the ministries will collaborate closely on the project, there will be no direct transfer of funds. Each agency will handle its own costs internally using existing budgets.

The agreement was signed by Dario Carnevalli Durigan of the Ministry of Finance and Cristina Kiomi Mori from the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services.