KYC Automation for International Retail Clients - Pain Points?

For those dealing with international retail clients, especially across diverse regulatory landscapes, how are you handling the automated KYC process? We're finding it surprisingly clunky, particularly with verifying identity documents from certain regions, and flagging potential AML risks without generating an excessive number of false positives. Are there specific vendors or strategies that have notably streamlined this for you, or is this just an inherent bottleneck everyone's grappling with right now?