CHICAGO, July 16, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Monday, July 16, 2012, Wintrust Financial Corporation opened its first location in Chicago's Loop. The new Wintrust Banking Center is located at 70 West Madison (northeast corner of Madison and Clark) at Three First National Plaza.
Wintrust Banking Center will be a full-service banking facility offering a complete range of personal, commercial, wealth management, and mortgage services. Through Wintrust Community Banking, customers of any Wintrust Community Bank can perform banking transactions at this new Wintrust Banking Center location.
"With nearly 100 locations throughout the Chicago metropolitan area and several neighborhoods in the city, we look forward to extending our presence into the Chicago Loop to better serve current Wintrust Community Bank customers, professional service firms, commercial banking clients, as well as prospects looking for a Wintrust location in the Loop," said Edward J. Wehmer, President and CEO of Wintrust Financial Corporation. "This is the first of what we intend to be several locations in the Loop."
Chris Ksoll recently joined Wintrust as Senior Vice President and Branch Manager of the new Wintrust Banking Center. Ksoll has more than 20 years of experience in developing and overseeing complex banking, trust and investment related client relationships.
Wintrust Banking Center will operate Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Customers of any Wintrust Community Bank will be able to use this facility as a convenient location to fulfill their banking needs while downtown. Wintrust Banking Center is a branch of Wintrust's wholly-owned subsidiary, Northbrook Bank & Trust Company.
About Wintrust Financial Corporation
Wintrust Financial Corporation is a financial holding company with assets of approximately $16 billion whose common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (Nasdaq:WTFC). Built on the "HAVE IT ALL" model, Wintrust offers sophisticated technology and resources of a large bank while focusing on providing service-based community banking to each and every customer. Wintrust operates fifteen community bank subsidiaries, over 100 banking offices located in the greater Chicago and Milwaukee market areas. Wintrust also provides wealth management services, commercial insurance premium financing, mortgage origination, short-term accounts receivable financing, and certain administrative services, such as data processing of payrolls, and billing and treasury management services to its customers.
Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Investors are cautioned that such statements are predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. Wintrust's expected financial results or other plans are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" and the forward-looking statement disclosure contained in Wintrust's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made and Wintrust undertakes no duty to update the information.