RI loan broker bonds.
$120 on the $20,000 amount.
A Rhode Island loan broker licenses through the Department of Business Regulation, Division of Banking, and R.I. Gen. Laws § 19-14-6 conditions that license on a $20,000 surety bond running to the state for the use of the state and of anyone with a cause of action against you. The rate is 0.6% of the bond amount, $100 minimum — $120 at the statutory $20,000 — and the bond issues the moment you pay. Any credit screen is a soft credit pull only — never a hard inquiry.
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Statutory amount, fixed rate, no quote round-trip. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, the owner, an effective date, and a term — that is the entire application. Any credit screen is a soft pull that never shows as a hard inquiry.
Pay & e-sign
Your premium is already exact at the statutory $20,000, so the bond issues the moment you pay — executed bond and power of attorney on the spot.
File through NMLS
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to attach to your loan broker license record for the Division of Banking. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Rhode Island regulates loan brokers — the people who, for a fee, arrange or negotiate loans for borrowers — under chapter 19-14 of the General Laws, administered by the Division of Banking with licensing on NMLS. Section 19-14-6 requires the applicant to file a bond, approved by the director, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).
The bond runs to the state for the use of the state and of any person who may have cause of action against the obligor. You are the principal, the carrier is the surety, and Rhode Island is the obligee — a borrower harmed by a violation of the licensing chapter recovers against the bond, not out of your pocket first.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond must stay on file for the life of 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, the owner, an effective date, and a term. That is the entire application.
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0.6% of the bond amount, $100 minimum — $120 at the statutory $20,000, issued the moment you pay. Free until issued.