Definitely was easy for me, I first used Neat (now Rapyd), and currently using AirWallex. Both applications took about 2 days or so.
I know people suffer a bit from Rapyd after the acquisition
I only used my account for about 2 months, because it caused a lot of confusion. Your account name was prefixed with “NEAT”, so few of my clients just ignored that and money never arrived. Switched to AirWallex and never looked back.
I think you need to have some business in Hong Kong to open a bank account there.
But that's ok, you can open a bank account in a different country.