In 2021, Caja Popular Mexicana marked 70 years of savings and loan cooperatives, cooperativas de ahorro y préstamo, in Mexico. It traces this tradition to 1951 and to two priests, Manuel and Pedro Velázquez Hernández. (Video in Spanish.)
Its bulletin for the anniversary counted more than 8.5 million people who use the savings and credit services of the cooperative sector. About 3,033,000 of them were members of Caja Popular Mexicana.