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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549

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FORM 8-K

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CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) April 9, 2013

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Radian Group Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

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(215) 231 - 1000
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 2.02.       Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On April 9, 2013, Radian Group Inc. (the “Company”) issued a news release announcing, among other things:

• The delinquency data for its mortgage insurance business for March 2013;
• During the monthly period ending March 31, 2013, Radian Guaranty Inc., the Company’s principal mortgage insurance subsidiary, wrote $3.63 billion of new insurance written.

The Company also announced that after giving effect to a contribution of $115 million to Radian Guaranty in March 2013, it currently maintains in excess of $800 million of currently available liquidity and that it expects to maintain a risk-to-capital ratio of 20:1 or below at Radian Guaranty for the foreseeable future.

A copy of this news release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

The information included in, or furnished with, this report shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

Forward-looking Statements

Some of the statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "will," "expects," "believes" and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, which may include without limitation, projections regarding our future performance and financial condition, are made on the basis of management’s current views and assumptions with respect to future events.  Any forward-looking statement is not a guarantee of future performance and actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statement.  These statements speak only as of the date they were made, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. We operate in a changing environment.  New risks emerge from time to time and it is not possible for us to predict all risks that may affect us.  The forward-looking statements, as well as our prospects as a whole, are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statement, including the following:

• changes in general economic and political conditions, including high unemployment rates and continued weakness in the U.S. housing and mortgage credit markets, a significant downturn in the U.S. or global economies, a lack of meaningful liquidity in the capital or credit markets, changes or volatility in interest rates or consumer confidence and changes in credit spreads, each of which may be accelerated or intensified by, among other things, legislative activity or inactivity or actual or threatened downgrades of U.S. credit ratings;

• the application of existing federal or state laws and regulations, or changes in these laws and regulations or the way they are interpreted, including, without limitation: (i) the resolution of existing, or the possibility of additional, lawsuits or investigations; and (ii) legislative and regulatory changes (a) impacting the demand for private mortgage insurance, (b) limiting or restricting our use of (or increasing requirements for) additional capital and the products we may offer or increasing the amount of capital we are required to hold, (c) affecting the form in which we execute credit protection, or (d) otherwise impacting our existing businesses; and
• the possibility that we may fail to estimate accurately the likelihood, magnitude and timing of losses in connection with establishing loss reserves for our mortgage insurance or financial guaranty businesses or premium deficiencies for our mortgage insurance business, or to estimate accurately the fair value amounts of derivative instruments in determining gains and losses on these contracts.

For more information regarding these risks and uncertainties as well as certain additional risks that we face, you should refer to the Risk Factors detailed in Item 1A of Part I of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and subsequent reports and registration statements filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Item 9.01.       Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

                99.1*               Radian Group Inc. News Release dated April 9, 2013.

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*  Furnished herewith.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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