Madelyn Lugo, chairwoman of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, Governor Anibal Acevedo-Vila of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Richard Carrion, president and CEO of Popular, Inc., preside over the opening bell.

Monday June 11, 2007
from Nasdaq MarketSite
in New York's Times Square

Popular, Inc.
[BPOP]

Banco Popular North America, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the leading community banks in the U.S. with 144 branches in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas. Its core businesses include retail and commercial banking services, mortgage and consumer lending, and investment services. Banco Popular ranks among the top four Small Business Administration lenders in the country. Banco Popular North America is a subsidiary of Popular, Inc. (Nasdaq:BPOP).

For more information about Banco Popular North America, visit the company's Web site at www.bancopopular.com.

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Click for larger pictures of the NASDAQ MarketSite. Additional Photographs for 06/11/2007 Download Hi-Res Quality Photo of this NASDAQ Market Open - Pictured: Richard Carrion, president and CEO of Popular, Inc., Governor Anibal Acevedo-Vila of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Madelyn Lugo, chairwoman of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, preside over the opening bell. Organizations interested in obtaining NASDAQ-listed company bell ringing ceremony photographs for press purposes, must first receive approval from the listed company before requesting photographs from NASDAQ. Please provide the company contact information from whom you received approval to Jolene Libretto at Jolene.Libretto@nasdaq.com. Kindly credit © 2007, The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. Reprinted with permission. © Copyright 2007, The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.