Wintrust Financial

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Wintrust Financial Corporation
Company type Public
Industry Financial services
Founded1991
Lake Forest, Illinois
FounderEd Wehmer
Headquarters Rosemont, Illinois
Key people
Tim Crane, CEO & President; David Dykstra, Vice Chairman & COO
Products Consumer Banking, Corporate Banking, Insurance, Investment Banking, Mortgage loans, Private Banking, Private Equity, Wealth Management, Credit Cards, Financial Analysis
RevenueIncrease2.svg $ 2.16 billion (fiscal year ended 31 December 2023) [1]
Increase2.svg $622.63 million (fiscal year ended 31 December 2023) [1]
Total assets Increase2.svg $ 56.26 billion (fiscal year ended 31 December 2023) [1]
Number of employees
5,521 FTE (fiscal year ended 31 December 2023) [1]
RatingBBB+ | Fitch (as of 31 December 2023) [1]
Website wintrust.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Wintrust is a financial holding company in the United States that operates 15 chartered community banks in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. [2] Wintrust is a relatively medium-sized banking institution in the United States and it trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market with stock symbol WTFC. Wintrust is the second largest banking company in Chicago. [3]

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Services

The company provides traditional retail and commercial banking services, as well as wealth management services, commercial and life insurance premium financing, and certain treasury management services such as data processing of payrolls and billings. [4] In 2015 Wintrust began to expand into equipment financing, both directly through its bank branches and indirectly through dealers. [5]

History

Wintrust was founded by Ed Wehmer. Wintrust was among the recipients of capital from the United States government through the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program. [3] [6] The bank used the 2008 financial crisis to acquire small troubled banks in the Chicago area, backed by its pre-crisis capital supplemented by TARP funds. This positioned it to become one of the area's largest retail banks by eliminating costs and deepening its geographical footprint in the area. [7] Wintrust Financial continues to expand within its footprint area. [7] [8] [9] [10]

In 2018, Wintrust completed its acquisition of Veterans First Mortgage, a Utah-based corporation with approximately 400 employees. [11]

In May 2019, Wintrust acquired Rush-Oak Corporation, the parent company of Oak Bank, an Illinois state-chartered bank which had approximately $201 million in assets. [12] In October 2019, Wintrust acquired STC Bancshares Corp, the parent company of STC Capital Bank, an Illinois state-chartered bank with approximately $275 million in assets. [13]

In 2021, the Hinsdale Bank, a Wintrust Bank, opened the Oak Park Bank in what had been a restaurant space in a historic building. [14] [15] The Oak Park Bank built a second location, new facility, in the village. [16]

In 2022, Wintrust announced a deal to acquire the U.S. asset management arm of Rothschild & Co, which held around $8 billion in assets under management at the time. [17]

On August 1, 2024, it was announced that Wintrust had completed the merger of its operations with Macatawa Bank Corporation, a company based in Holland, Michigan. [18]

Community banks

Unlike most major U.S. banks, Wintrust's business strategy is to retain the identities of the community banks it acquires rather than rebranding them. However, each community bank uses the tagline, "A Wintrust Community Bank." [19] Wintrust's 15 chartered bank subsidiaries and their respective community banks are: [20]

Subsidiaries

Its major non-bank subsidiaries are:

Marketing

Wintrust is the official banking partner of the Chicago Cubs, which features sponsorship of the left-field Daktronics ProStar video board at Wrigley Field; [37] [38] the "W" in "Wintrust" flashes after every Cubs win, and is lit after wins, as part of the traditional win flag.

Wintrust has also partnered with the Chicago White Sox for the naming rights to club seats at Guaranteed Rate Field. [37]

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