The $176 million Cabrillo Credit Union in San Diego is now offering its 23,000 members the ability to sign loan documents online.

Despite the big rise in airline fares, conference attendance appears headed for an uptick this spring with both CUNA and NAFCU projecting gains for their major conclaves following acceptable turnouts at more recent events including CUNA’s Washington Government Affairs Conference.

For all the hits that some banks have received for scaling back their business lending efforts, they are the Small Business Administration’s most active 7(a) loan program lenders.

The relief effort by credit unions to aid victims of the Japanese disaster continued this week with Western Bridge Corporate waiving international wire fees for CUs acting on behalf of their members.