> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.lerian.studio/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Jurisdictions

> How Lender stays jurisdiction-aware — the profile registry, the generic baseline, the Brazil profile, and the discovery endpoints that expose them.

Credit rules differ by market. Rather than hard-code one country's rules, Lender is **jurisdiction-aware**: it carries a registry of jurisdiction **profiles**, each supplying the rules, disclosures, and calendar its market needs, and the active jurisdiction shapes which behavior applies.

## The profile model

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* **Generic** — a baseline profile with the market-neutral lending behavior every jurisdiction shares. It is the fallback when no country-specific profile applies.
* **Brazil (BR)** — a deep profile layered on top of the baseline, adding CET disclosure, IOF preview, capitalization consent, PDD staging, the credit-operation descriptor, prepayment quotes, a Brazilian business calendar, and the consignado privado journey.

Brazilian behavior is reached through BR-prefixed endpoints (`/api/v1/br/...`), several of which are jurisdiction-aware aliases of the generic operations. See the [Brazil regulatory pack](/en/lender/brazil-regulatory-pack) and [Consignado privado](/en/lender/consignado-privado).

## Discovery endpoints

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The compiled-in profiles are discoverable at runtime, so a client can learn which jurisdictions a deployment supports:

| Operation                          | Purpose                                    |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| `GET /api/v1/jurisdictions`        | List the registered jurisdiction profiles. |
| `GET /api/v1/jurisdictions/{code}` | Read one jurisdiction profile by its code. |

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  Profiles are part of the deployed service, not runtime configuration — discovery tells you what a given deployment can do, not something you edit through the API.
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## Next steps

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<Card title="Brazil regulatory pack" icon="brazilian-real-sign" href="/en/lender/brazil-regulatory-pack" horizontal>
  Everything the Brazilian profile adds.
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