Onboarding Friction for Asian Market Access

Anyone else finding the KYC/KYB process for some of the more niche Asian brokers a bit... protracted? Dealing with a potential partner for some $SET exposure, and the documentation requests are extensive, even for institutional. Wondering if this is typical across the board, or if certain regions/firms are just slower to adapt to more streamlined digital onboarding. Specifically, cross-border payments into these smaller entities can be a real choke point, impacting the speed of capital deployment. Are there any common workarounds or best practices folks have found for accelerating this part of the setup?