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Jay Rao

Co-founder and CEO

Jay Rao is the Co-founder and CEO of KYC Hub, a fraud and compliance infrastructure provider for regulated businesses. He writes on KYC, AML and sanctions compliance, with a focus on how financial crime networks operate and where detection still works for banks and fintechs.

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Network diagram of six shell companies in the UAE, Hong Kong and elsewhere, all linked to one shared VPN hub. $17bn.

A7 Network: How Sanctions Evasion Beat Name Screening

A7’s sub-agents moved more than $17 billion with no Russian customer in the payment chain. What the network looked like from inside a bank, and where it was still visible.

Oct 2026 · 15 min read