CUNA President/CEO Dan Mica is scheduled to discuss ways Congress can improve lending opportunities for small business and make a pitch for raising the cap on member business loans during testimony before the House Financial Services Committee tomorrow.

The National Association of Home Builders' monthly Housing Market Index increased this month signaling that home builders are starting to have more confidence is a strengthening housing market.

Credit unions continue to lead banks in customer satisfaction with online banking, according to an annual study by a Michigan-based research firm and Forbes Media.

In addition to Louisiana, the SBA said it is making economic injury loans available to small businesses near the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida impacted by the Deepwater BP oil spill.