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The Asian Real Estate Association of America has launched a two-year partnership with Radian Group's mortgage insurance unit.

The half a percentage point reduction in the Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance premium provided a bigger pop to the housing market than expected, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

Heartland Financial USA has hired Insuritas to help it expand its insurance business.

Blackstone Group LP acquired a "significant equity stake" in mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc.

The Federal Housing Administration is re-issuing a loan certification proposal that has sparked industry concerns that it will make it easier for the Justice Department to sue lenders when they file claims for agency-insured loans that go into default.

Mortgage securitizer Ginnie Mae could get hit if a proposed deadline for filing claims on FHA-insured loans goes into effect.

Parkside Lending has introduced jumbo mortgages for properties with loan-to-value ratios as high as 95% and without mortgage insurance.

There's nothing like a natural disaster to make people realize how important insurance is to the banking industry.

Essent Guaranty did $7.23 billion of new insurance written in the second quarter, the second highest volume in the company's brief existence.

United Guaranty Corp., the private mortgage insurance subsidiary of American International Group, has obtained reinsurance coverage on approximately $299 million of the book of business it wrote between 2009 and the first quarter of 2013.