Radian Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend on Common Stock

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN) announced today that the company's Board of Directors approved a regular quarterly dividend on its common stock in the amount of $0.0025 per share, payable on September 24, 2009, to stockholders of record as of August 24, 2009.

About Radian

Radian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN), headquartered in Philadelphia, provides private mortgage insurance and related risk management products and services to mortgage lenders nationwide through its principal operating subsidiary, Radian Guaranty Inc. These services help promote and preserve homeownership opportunities for homebuyers, while protecting lenders from default-related losses on residential first mortgages and facilitating the sale of low-downpayment mortgages in the secondary market. Additional information may be found at www.radian.biz.

    Contact:
    For investors:       Terri Williams-Perry - phone: 215 231.1486
                         Email: terri.williams-perry@radian.biz

    For the media:       Rick Gillespie - phone: 215 231.1061
                         Email: rick.gillespie@radian.biz

SOURCE Radian Group Inc.

CONTACT: Investors
Terri Williams-Perry, +1-215-231-1486
terri.williams-perry@radian.biz
or
Media
Rick Gillespie, +1-215-231-1061
rick.gillespie@radian.biz
both of Radian Group Inc.
/Web Site: http://www.radian.biz

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Radian Group Inc.'s business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.