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By recognizing that each product can map to a different license in the same state. Loan size, rate, and term thresholds decide whether a product falls under a small loan, consumer installment, or supervised lender statute, so a lender with three products may need different license combinations in each state. Cornerstone Licensing keeps a product-to-license matrix per state for multi-product lenders, maintained in Atlas.
The threshold problem compounds with every product. A $2,000 loan at 30 percent and a $15,000 loan at 18 percent can sit under different statutes in the same state, and a state's small loan license may cap the amount or rate in ways that force the larger product onto a different authority. Product teams change pricing and terms without realizing a threshold was crossed, which is how a licensed lender ends up making a category of loans its license does not cover.
The control is a product-to-license matrix, states on one axis, products on the other, each cell naming the license that covers it, plus a change gate: pricing and term changes route past the licensing owner before launch. Cornerstone Licensing builds and maintains that matrix for multi-product lenders, files the additional licenses when a new product or threshold change requires one, and keeps the matrix live in Atlas so product and compliance are reading the same map.
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