Onboarding Friction for Small/Medium Funds - KYB/AML Grind

asked by u/btc_maxi_dan · 9d · 2 answers

Anyone else hitting a wall with KYB/AML when trying to onboard new prime brokerages or even just expanding PSP relationships? It seems like every new entity wants the complete operational genome, which I get for compliance, but the repetition is insane. We're a small fund, established, clean, but the paperwork/data request load feels disproportionate. It's not just the initial intake, it's the constant follow-ups, the specific formatting, the deep dives into UBOs that haven't changed in years. We've spent more time this quarter chasing down attested documents and re-explaining our ownership structure than actually trading. It's becoming a real bottleneck for expanding liquidity options and diversifying our counterparties. Any tips for streamlining this? Is there a sweet spot for the size of fund where this burden lessens, or does it just get worse the larger you get due to complexity?

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  • u/lottemurphy· 1 pts· 9d

    Oh, absolutely. It's like they've all outsourced their onboarding to a single, overzealous AI that thinks every fund manager is secretly a Bond villain laundering a small country's GDP. You'd think after the third time providing the same ultimate beneficial owner's utility bill, someone would catch on.

  • u/nbianchi· 1 pts· 9d

    I agree, the repeated KYB/AML process for each new provider is a real drag. Have you found any central platforms or services that help streamline the submission process, even if they don't fully automate the approvals? It seems like there should be a better way to manage and reuse this information.

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