Radian Group Inc. provides, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, insurance and mortgage services to financial institutions in the United States of America and globally. The principal business segments are mortgage insurance, financial guaranty and mortgage services. The mortgage insurance segment provides private mortgage insurance and risk management services to mortgage lending institutions. The financial guaranty segment provides credit-related insurance coverage, credit default swaps and certain other financial guaranty contracts to meet the needs of customers in a wide variety of domestic and international markets. The mortgage services segment deals primarily with credit-based servicing and securitization of assets in underserved markets, in particular, the purchase, servicing and securitization of special assets, including sub-performing/non-performing and seller financed residential mortgages and the purchase and servicing of delinquent consumer assets.