Onboarding Friction for High-Volume Flows: Anyone Else Feel the KYB Pain?

Running a mid-size prop firm, we're constantly evaluating and onboarding new brokers and liquidity providers to diversify risk and optimize our execution stack. The market's become incredibly efficient on pricing, but honestly, the operational friction of Know Your Business (KYB) processes across the board is starting to feel like a significant bottleneck. It's not just the initial onboarding, which can stretch weeks even for established entities with clean records. It's the ongoing KYC refreshes, the inconsistent documentation requirements, and the sheer volume of forms that often feel like they're designed for a 1980s bank branch rather than a modern, high-frequency operation.

We're talking about connecting with firms that claim cutting-edge tech, yet their back office for compliance feels like it's stuck in a time warp. It eats up so much compliance and ops team time that could be spent on actual value-add activities. Is anyone else experiencing this disproportionate overhead? Are there any specific frameworks or even third-party solutions you've found effective in streamlining this, especially when dealing with multiple relationships internationally? It's becoming less about the spreads on $EURUSD and more about the man-hours required just to get a new pipe open.