Nature of operations and basis of presentation	12 Months Ended
Nature of operations and basis of presentation	Dec. 31, 2022
Nature of operation [Abstract]
Nature of operations and basis of presentation	Note 1 – Nature of Operations and basis of Presentation Nature of Operations Popular, Inc. (the “Corporation” or “Popular”) is a diversified, publicly-owned financial holding company subject to the supervision and regulation of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The Corporation has operations in Puerto Rico, the mainland United States (“U.S.”) and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. In Puerto Rico, the Corporation provides retail, mortgage, and commercial banking services, through its principal banking subsidiary, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (“BPPR”), as well as investment banking, broker-dealer, auto and equipment leasing and financing, and insurance services through specialized subsidiaries. In the mainland U.S., the Corporation provides retail, mortgage and commercial banking services through its New York-chartered banking subsidiary, Popular Bank (“PB” or “Popular U.S.”), which has branches located in New York, New Jersey and Florida, and equipment leasing and financing services through Popular Equipment Finance (“PEF”), a wholly owned subsidiary of PB based in Minnesota. Basis of Presentation Leveraging the completion of the Evertec Transactions, as defined in Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, the Corporation embarked on a broad-based multi-year, technological and business process transformation during the second half of 2022. The needs and expectations of our clients, as well as the competitive landscape, have evolved, requiring us to make important investments in our technological infrastructure and adopt more agile practices. Our technology and business transformation will be a significant priority for the Corporation over the next three years and beyond. As part of this transformation, we aim to expand our digital capabilities, modernize our technology platform, and implement agile and efficient business processes across the entire Corporation. To facilitate the transparency of the progress with the transformation initiative and to better portray the level of technology related expenses categorized by the nature of the expense, effective in the fourth quarter of 2022, the Corporation has separated technology, professional fees and transactional and items processing related expenses as standalone expense categories in the accompanying Consolidated statement of operations. There were no changes to the total operating expenses presented. Prior periods amount in the financial statements and related disclosures have been reclassified to conform to the current presentation. The following table provides the detail of the reclassifications for each respective year: 2021 2020 Financial statement line item As reported Adjustments Adjusted As reported Adjustments Adjusted Equipment expenses $ 92,097 $ (59,178) $ 32,919 $ 88,932 $ (56,418) $ 32,514 Professional services 410,865 (284,144) 126,721 394,122 (261,708) 132,414 Technology and software expenses - 277,979 277,979 - 263,886 263,886 Processing and transactional services - 121,367 121,367 - 112,039 112,039 Communications 25,234 (11,205) 14,029 23,496 (10,266) 13,230 Other expenses 136,988 (44,819) 92,169 128,882 (47,533) 81,349 Net effect on operating expenses $ 665,184 $ - $ 665,184 $ 635,432 $ - $ 635,432