HI mortgage servicer bonds.
$600 flat.
Before a Hawaii mortgage servicer license becomes effective, HRS 454M-4 requires the applicant to file a $100,000 surety bond with the Commissioner of Financial Institutions — conditioned on faithfully performing your written agreements with borrowers and mortgagees and truly accounting for all funds received. Ours is $600 flat, the price you see is the checkout price, and the bond issues the moment you pay. Any credit screen is a soft pull only — it never affects your score.
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The mortgage servicer bond is one of the simplest pieces of an NMLS license file. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, an effective date, and a term. That is the entire application — no financial statements, and any credit screen is a soft pull that never shows as a hard inquiry.
Pay & e-sign
This bond is checkout-priced at $600 flat, so it issues the moment you pay — your executed bond and power of attorney generate on the spot.
File through NMLS
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to attach to your license record for the Hawaii Division of Financial Institutions. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Hawaii licenses mortgage servicers through the Division of Financial Institutions (Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs), with applications processed on NMLS. Under HRS 454M-4, the license does not become effective until the applicant files a surety bond in a penal sum of $100,000, written by a surety authorized in the State, with the Commissioner.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State (the obligee). The bond is conditioned on the licensee faithfully performing its written agreements with borrowers and mortgagees and truly accounting for all funds received — the escrow, payoff, and remittance duties at the heart of servicing.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The surety cannot cancel without 30 days' written notice to the Commissioner, and the Commissioner automatically suspends the license on the cancellation date — so the bond has to stay continuously on file. We track the term and send renewal notices 60 and 30 days out.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — business details, an effective date, and a term. That is the entire application.
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$600 flat, issued the moment you pay, soft pull only. Free until issued.