Wintrust is a financial holding company whose common stock is traded on the Nasdaq
Global Select Market (Nasdaq: WTFC) that operates bank retail locations in the greater
Chicago, southern Wisconsin, west Michigan, northwest Indiana, and southwest Florida
market areas. Its 16 community bank subsidiaries are: Barrington Bank & Trust Company,
N.A., Beverly Bank & Trust Company, N.A., Crystal Lake Bank & Trust Company, N.A.,
Hinsdale Bank & Trust Company, N.A., Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company, N.A.,
Libertyville Bank & Trust Company, N.A., Macatawa Bank, N.A., Northbrook Bank & Trust
Company, N.A., Old Plank Trail Community Bank, N.A., Schaumburg Bank & Trust Company,
N.A., St. Charles Bank & Trust Company, N.A., State Bank of The Lakes, N.A., Town Bank,
N.A., Village Bank & Trust, N.A., Wheaton Bank & Trust Company, N.A., and Wintrust Bank,
N.A.
Additionally, the Company operates various non-bank businesses:
• FIRST Insurance Funding and Wintrust Life Finance, each a division of Lake
Forest Bank & Trust Company, N.A., serve commercial and life insurance loan
customers, respectively, throughout the United States.
• First Insurance Funding of Canada serves commercial insurance loan
customers throughout Canada.
• Tricom, Inc. of Milwaukee provides high-yielding, short-term accounts
receivable financing and value-added out-sourced administrative services, such
as data processing of payrolls, billing and cash management services, to
temporary staffing service clients located throughout the United States.
• Wintrust Mortgage, a division of Barrington Bank & Trust Company, N.A.,
engages primarily in the origination and purchase of residential mortgages for
sale into the secondary market through origination offices located throughout
the United States. Loans are also originated nationwide through relationships
with wholesale and correspondent offices.
• Wintrust Investments, LLC is a broker-dealer providing a full range of private
client and brokerage services to clients and correspondent banks located
primarily in the Midwest.
• Great Lakes Advisors LLC provides money management services and advisory
services to individual accounts.
• Wintrust Private Trust Company, N.A., a trust subsidiary, allows Wintrust to
service customers’ trust and investment needs at each banking location.
• Wintrust Asset Finance offers direct leasing opportunities.
• CDEC provides Qualified Intermediary services (as defined by U.S. Treasury
regulations) for taxpayers seeking to structure tax-deferred like-kind
exchanges under Internal Revenue Code Section 1031.
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