ME money transmitter bonds.
$1,000 flat.
Maine adopted the Money Transmission Modernization Act in 2024, and 32 M.R.S. §6100-S requires every money transmission licensee to maintain security of $100,000 — a surety bond in a form the administrator approves, on file with the Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection. Ours is $1,000 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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Three steps. One sitting.
Even at a $100,000 penal sum, this is a checkout-priced filing. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, an effective date, and a term. That is the entire application — no financials, and any credit screen is a soft pull that never shows as a hard inquiry.
Pay & e-sign
This bond is checkout-priced at $1,000 flat, so it issues the moment you pay — your executed bond and power of attorney generate on the spot.
File with the Bureau
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your money transmission license with the Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Maine repealed its old Money Transmitters Act and enacted the Money Transmission Modernization Act (P.L. 2023, ch. 662), now Chapter 79-A of Title 32. Under 32 M.R.S. §6100-S, every applicant and licensee must maintain security — a surety bond in a form the administrator approves — in the amount of $100,000, with the option to post a deposit instead subject to administrator approval.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Maine (the obligee, acting through the Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection). The bond stands behind your money transmission obligations — the funds you receive for transmission and your compliance with Chapter 79-A — so customers harmed by a failure to transmit have recourse.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond has to stay continuously on file for as long as you hold the license; 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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$1,000 flat, issued the moment you pay, soft pull only. Free until issued.