Popular Bank: email security grade D

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Popular Bank, New York, New York, is the 125th largest FDIC-insured US bank by total assets ($15bn). On 4 November 2026 the public email records of popularbank.com graded D: MX fail, SPF pass, DMARC p=reject, no MX records.

Grade D. One required record missing or broken. Read by DNS on 4 November 2026; the records are shown as published.

What was found on popularbank.com

Check	Result	What was published
MX	Fail	No MX records
SPF	Pass	`v=spf1 -all`. DNS lookups: 0 of 10 allowed; ends -all
DMARC	Pass	`v=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=reject; fo=1; ri=3600; rua=mailto:banco-popular@rua.agari.com; ruf=mailto:banco-popular@ruf.agari.com,mailto:bancopopular-dmarc@datafeeds.phishlabs.com`. Policy p=reject, subdomains sp=reject; reports collected (rua= set)
DKIM	Reported, not graded	No key on any of 10 common selectors. This proves nothing: the bank's real selectors may be any name

Where Popular Bank ranks

Popular Bank is the 125th largest FDIC-insured US bank by total assets, at $15bn as reported to the FDIC (certificate 34967; New York, New York). Among the 999 graded banks, Popular Bank ranks 940th by grade (ties broken by assets, larger first). In its asset band, $10bn to $100bn, it ranks 119th of 122; among the 49 graded banks in New York, 47th. 69.7% of its band and 73.5% of its state graded A.

What this means for the bank

The checker's own notes on each record:

MX, fail: No MX records, so popularbank.com cannot receive mail. Every reply to a cold email sent from it bounces.
SPF, pass: One SPF record, ending in -all (fail): mail from a server that is not on the list should be rejected.
SPF, info: DNS lookups: about 0 of the 10 allowed. This count is an estimate.
DMARC, pass: Policy p=reject: receivers are asked to refuse mail that fails.
DMARC, info: Reports go to banco-popular@rua.agari.com.
DKIM, info: No DKIM key at the 10 common selectors tried. That does not mean DKIM is missing. Your email provider picks the selector name, and DNS has no way to list them.

What this means if you sell to Popular Bank

popularbank.com publishes no MX records, so it does not receive mail. Popular Bank's staff mail must run on another domain, which this check did not read. Before you send, run your own domain through the email setup checker and publish a policy with the DMARC record generator. For how a bank buys, see the selling to banks playbook.

Check it live

The records above are from 4 November 2026. Run the same check on popularbank.com now for today's result. The FDIC's record of the bank is at BankFind, certificate 34967.

This page is one of 1,000 in the Bank Email Readiness Index Q4 2026, published 4 November 2026 and re-read every quarter; the next edition is due 2 February 2027. If you work at Popular Bank and the records have changed, email moe@roimaxi.com and we will re-check and update this page.

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