Onboarding Friction for Mid-Tier Prop Shops – Anyone Else Seeing This?

Running a small-to-mid size prop operation, we've been trying to expand our liquidity providers and the onboarding process has become a real bottleneck. It's not just the KYC/AML, which is to be expected, but the sheer lack of standardization in data requests and the extended timelines for integration testing. We're talking weeks, sometimes months, to get properly wired in, even with established players. It feels like every new relationship is a bespoke project, consuming significant internal resources.

Are larger firms facing similar issues, or is this primarily a headache for shops our size, perhaps due to lower volume commitments? I'm curious if anyone has found effective strategies or specific providers that offer a genuinely streamlined process for new institutional clients. The drag on deal flow from this friction is becoming non-trivial.