WI mortgage broker bonds.
0.6% of the bond amount.
Wisconsin licenses mortgage brokers through the Division of Banking at the Department of Financial Institutions, and Wis. Stat. 224.72(4)(am) requires the applicant to file a commercial surety bond of $120,000, payable to the division for the benefit of the people it served. At 0.6% of the bond amount, that prices at $720, the bond issues the moment you pay, and any credit screen is a soft pull only — it never affects your score.
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Mortgage broker license bonds file with the division through NMLS. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, 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
This bond is checkout-priced at 0.6% of the $120,000 bond — $720 — so it issues the moment you pay. Your executed bond and power of attorney generate on the spot.
File with the division
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to upload to NMLS or file with the Division of Banking alongside your license application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
A mortgage broker in Wisconsin originates residential mortgage loans for others rather than funding them, and is licensed under Wis. Stat. 224.72 by the Division of Banking at the Department of Financial Institutions through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System.
Section 224.72(4)(am) requires the applicant to file with the division a commercial surety bond in the amount of $120,000 for a mortgage broker (a mortgage banker files $300,000), issued by a surety authorized to do business in Wisconsin. The bond secures your faithful performance of all duties and obligations as a mortgage broker and is payable to the division for the benefit of persons to whom you provided services. It cannot be terminated without at least 60 days' written notice to the division.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Applicants also show a minimum net worth ($100,000 for a mortgage broker). 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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0.6% of the bond amount — $720, issued the moment you pay. Free until issued.