Onboarding Friction for High-Volume Commodity Futures
Curious if others are running into similar walls regarding onboarding for commodity futures, specifically higher volume institutional or prop accounts. The KYC/AML checks are understandable, but the timeline extensions and arbitrary documentation requests from some of these clearing firms and even certain brokers have become excessive. We're talking weeks of back-and-forth for what should be standard corporate verification. This directly impacts our ability to scale into new markets like specific energy spreads or even some of the newer ag products. Beyond the initial hurdle, spreads and payout reliability are critical; is anyone seeing a marked difference in execution quality or the consistency of withdrawals once these accounts are finally live, especially with larger position sizes? Trying to gauge if this is a systemic shift or just bad luck with specific providers.
It's interesting to hear that even high-volume institutional accounts are facing these hurdles. I'm just starting to look into futures, so I definitely wasn't expecting such a long onboarding process for established players. Is this a new development, or has it always been this challenging?