XtraCash, a CUSO which enables credit unions to offer short-term loans to compete with storefront payday lenders, argues that it provides credit unions and their members a money-saving service.

Five of the CUSO's federal credit union clients were singled out for criticism for payday lending on May 16 in a letter to the NCUA from the National Consumer Law Center and Center for Responsible Lending.

The CUSO, which is owned by CU Holding Company LLC and that, in turn, by the $495 million Mazuma Credit Union in Kansas City, Mo., was not named in the letter but cited by credit union clients contacted about the letter by Credit Union Times.

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